Women are not allowed to eat before a cesarean section.
Cesarean section surgery is a very common surgery in clinic, before the surgery, according to the patient’s condition, usually need to take epidural anesthesia or general anesthesia. During the operation, the woman is under anesthesia, if there is food in the stomach memory at this time, it is easy to have gastric reflux, and the patient may inhale the gastric content into the trachea leading to respiratory difficulties, which can be life-threatening in serious cases.
In the clinic, before a woman prepares for an elective cesarean section, she is usually told not to eat or drink for 8 hours before the surgery. The day before the surgery, do not eat cold, greasy and indigestible food. If a woman needs an emergency cesarean section, she must tell her doctor honestly when she has eaten what kind of food so that she can take the appropriate course of action.