Medical professionals generally agree that getting a colonoscopy is the best ... stick to clear liquids: water, coffee and ...

A full-liquid diet includes liquid foods that are more nutritious than simple tea or broth. Examples include soup, milk, hot cereal, and juice. You may have heard of a clear liquid diet, where you ...

"The assumptions about no food on the day before colonoscopy are probably not correct. The clear-liquid diet is very restrictive, and probably too restrictive," said study author Dr. Jason Samarasena.

A review of 13 studies compared those who prepared with a low-residue diet, which avoids fibrous foods like whole grains, nuts and seeds, to those who prepared with a clear liquid diet.

After all that prep and the procedure itself, it’s natural to come out of the anesthesia from your colonoscopy and start to feel your appetite recover. That’s when it might suddenly dawn on you: ...

SAN DIEGO — A less restrictive low residue diet may improve colonoscopy bowel preparation quality compared with a clear liquid diet, according to interim randomized controlled trial data ...

A clear liquid diet, I realized, needs all the variation in texture, flavor and temperature one can manage. Bad news: It was too late to make aspic, a good idea from this post.

Colonoscopy patients who adhered to a low residue diet prior to the procedure reported higher satisfaction and were found to have better bowel preparations on average than patients who fasted ...

A low-residue diet is a viable alternative to clear-liquid diet preparation, and gastroenterologists should be paying more attention to it, said David Johnson, MD, chief of gastroenterology at Eastern ...