bowel prep rules

this is basically to induce diarrhoea to patient

so that procedure of large bowel can be done

example: colonoscope, or surgery.

different hospital use different protocol of bowel prep

even different surgeon uses different type and time

basically it starts the night before procedure

and usually repeated for twice, sometimes 3 times

(for certain pt, it even started 2 days prior to procedure)

some formulary given orally and some per rectally

below is the caution of giving bowel prep

this is because sometimes large amount of fluid shift will do harm to pt,

particularly for those with heart, lung and kidney diseases