Can you eat spinach after a colonoscopy?



You can eat spinach after a colonoscopy, but you need to be careful to choose the right time.

If you simply do a colonoscopy, no intestinal polypectomy and other treatments, you can eat spinach about two hours after the colonoscopy. If the colonoscopy is also done at the time of polypectomy and other treatments, it is recommended to fast for 12 to 24 hours before eating spinach, so as not to affect the healing of the wound, resulting in bleeding, is not easy on the body’s health.

After the colonoscopy, it is recommended to properly control the diet, try to choose to eat soft food, do not eat too hard food, such as walnuts, peanuts, melon seeds and so on. Try not to eat too cold or too hot food after colonoscopy as well, so as not to cause irritation to the intestinal mucosa.