Can you drink bile from a puncture drain?

Whether or not the bile drained from the puncture can be drunk is currently controversial, and it is necessary to follow the doctor’s instructions in clinical treatment. Bile is a digestive fluid secreted by the liver, containing high levels of electrolytes, and its main function is to help the body digest fatty nutrients. The view that bile can be drunk comes from: bile is helpful for digestive function and internal environment stabilization; puncture drainage is aseptic operation, bile is not contaminated. The view that you can’t drink it is based on the following: non-long-term puncture and drainage, generally does not affect the basic normal eating, there is no need to drink it as a back-up; bile is alkaline, which has a certain corrosive effect on the esophageal mucosa and the gastric mucosa; bile neutralizes the gastric acid, which weakens the effect of both. After the bile puncture drainage need to pay attention to strengthen the nursing care, the emergence of uncomfortable symptoms promptly notify the physician. Whether bile can be drunk, follow the doctor’s instructions can be strictly implemented.