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DEX is a complex carbohydrate drink formulated by anaesthesiologists that assists you to prepare and recover for surgery. It is a liquid meal that is safe to have before your anaesthetic and helps eliminates the usual hunger and thirst that precedes fasting for surgery. DEX meets the strict fasting guidelines that recommend clear fluid preoperatively. 

The benefits of drinking DEX before a surgery requiring anaesthetic include:

• Fructose-free, sucrose-free and has no artificial flavours or colours
• Suitable for use prior to surgery, gastroscopy and colonoscopy
• Improve recovery after surgery
• Facilitates intravenous cannulation
• Decrease insulin resistance post operatively

Ingredients

Water, maltodextrin(25g), natural flavour(peach), sodium citrate

Directions for use

Morning surgery

• Stop eating at midnight

• Drink 1st Dex when you wake up

• Drink 2nd Dex 90 mins before your admission time (you can drink both drinks at the same time)

Afternoon surgery

• Stop eating at 7:00am

• Drink 1st Dex at 11:00am

• Drink 2nd Dex 90 mins before your admission time (you can drink both drinks at the same time)

For children

Follow adult fasting guidelines EXCEPT:

• Replace 1st adult Dex with 10mls/kg (Up to maximum of 200mls)

• Replace 2nd adult Dex with 10mls/kg (Up to maximum of 200mls)

Important

• For best results, consume two serves of Dex before surgery

• Oral diabetic medications may be consumed on the day of surgery - sugars should be monitored

• Follow the advice of your anaesthesiologist if it differs from this protocol

• Refrigerate after opening