Dr. Fred Gandolfo, a board certified gastroenterologist, shares important tips about how to save your colonoscopy prep. The bowel prep can be tough...learn what to do when you can't drink the prep due to the bad taste, or the prep just isn't working to make you poop, or you just threw up all the prep!

0:23 Why a good cleanout is important
1:34 What to do when the prep tastes disgusting and you just can't drink it!
4:07 What to do when the prep doesn't work. You drank the prep but you're not pooping clear!
8:30 How do you know you are clean enough? What does the toilet look like?
9:45 What to do if you drank the prep and vomited. Oh no!
12:50 What to do a few hours before your colonoscopy if you're not cleaned out fully.

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The ebook covers all of the above, as well as:
what lifestyle factors can cause colon cancer and colon polyps
what are the RISKS of colonoscopy
what are the ALTERNATIVE TESTS to colonoscopy
how the colonoscopy anesthesia and sedation works
when you need to repeat a colonoscopy
how to select a good doctor to do your colonoscopy
how to EAT TO PREVENT COLON CANCER
and much more!

Located in Long Island, NY? Visit Dr. Gandolfo's medical practice here https://precisiondigestivecare.com

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