Can anesthesia or other IV meds mess up the diet?

[Guest guest]

Jake is having an MRI and CT Scan on Monday under general

anesthesia. The week after, he is having cochlear implant surgery.

I assume he will get IV anesthesia, fluids, and maybe some IV pain

meds after the surgery. Will any of this mess up the diet? I know

to expect some problems with being off his formula and the stress of

anesthesia/surgery/pain, etc., but am just wondering - is all IV

stuff keto-friendly for the most part?

Thanks!

Amy, mom to Jake

[Guest guest]

Depends on what they intend using Amy - no, all IV stuff is not keto friendly,

a lot have 'mixes' added in for bio-availability, ease on veins etc. You

basically have to ask about each one individually, so finding out beforehand is

pretty important. Your dietician should be able to do this for you - ours did

during 's hospital admissions, basically anything - IV, oral or skin

applied was run by her first - of course there are always gonna be slip ups, and

always gonna be Docs who think they 'know best', so triple check everything

youself. For instance, when needed a hydrating IV fluid at one point, one

Dr in PICU said that a diluted 25% dextrose solution would be fine - she was

wrong...and we had to physically stand in front of and stop them

administering it till they got hold of the dietician to confirm what we were

saying - ie - that a saline drip was all he could have for hydration. That sort

of thing....

----- Original Message -----

From: Amy

Jake is having an MRI and CT Scan on Monday under general

anesthesia. The week after, he is having cochlear implant surgery.

I assume he will get IV anesthesia, fluids, and maybe some IV pain

meds after the surgery. Will any of this mess up the diet? I know

to expect some problems with being off his formula and the stress of

anesthesia/surgery/pain, etc., but am just wondering - is all IV

stuff keto-friendly for the most part?

Thanks!

Amy, mom to Jake

[Guest guest]

You need to tell the anesthesiologist he is on the keto diet and they will

only give him the saline fluids. Stella had an MRI and they didn't need an

IV for that and she had general anesthesia too. I know for her VNS though

she'll have an IV and it will not have glucose. There are many pain meds

too that are keto friendly, just have your dietician be a part of that

process.

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-mom to Stella, 5years old, started keto diet May 10th 2004 still

waiting to be seizure free. Also on Lamictal, epam and Diamox. Anisa

is almost 10 and a happy healthy girl.