It is not recommended to eat before a cesarean section and you need to abstain from food and water for 6 to 8 hours.
For women, if they choose to give birth by cesarean section, then they should do the fasting and water fasting treatment for 6 to 8 hours before the operation. The main purpose is to prevent aspiration, so as not to affect the woman’s health.
Because cesarean section surgery requires anesthesia, if you eat food before the operation, you may be in the process of the operation and thus misaspiration, because the vomitus mistakenly inhaled into the airway, it is easy to cause respiratory distress and life-threatening. At the same time, eating before the operation may also have gastrointestinal distension, making the operation more difficult.
It is recommended that before the cesarean section operation, women should cooperate with the doctor to fasting water treatment in time to prevent the operation from being dangerous. At the same time to relax the mind, do not be too anxious and nervous.