Dayquail b4 Surgery?

[lillyD 7]

Got a cold & & surgery in morning

I don't want to reschedule so what ya think I should do??

[Sharon1964 2,530]

I think you should be honest and call your surgeon. If they don't want to operate, it's for a good reason. Maybe they can switch you with someone that is scheduled for next week.

[AvaFern 3,516]

As long as you're surgery is tomorrow, you can take Dayquil until midnight tonight. Your surgery should only be rescheduled if you have a significant fever or your cold has clogged up your throat. After surgery you are drugged pretty heavily when they pull your intubation tube, so you need to be able to support your own airway since not being able to breathe through your mouth while you are drugged just means you're not breathing at all. I had a whopping cold before surgery, but I could breathe just fine through my nose and mouth so I wasn't concerned about fibbing that I felt fine. If, however, I couldn't breathe well, I would have told them this. Unlike when you have a cold and you try to sleep, if your throat gets clogged up, you wake up coughing and blow your nose. When you're drugged if your airway is blocked, you just lay there and don't get any oxygen since you physically aren't able to be woken up by the fact that you can't breathe.

So...no big fever and no airway complications, lying about a cold is fine. A fever and/or airway issues, it's generally better to delay the surgery a bit than risk dying in recovery.

[Sharon1964 2,530]

Wondering what you ended up doing.

[lillyD 7]

I took the Dayquail @ 1am & surgery was @ noon. I was to show up by 8:30am for 10am appt. Alot of coughing & stuffy nose only @ bedtime. Coughing up mucus in the day when I'm up movin. This was one of those summer colds. I had the revision done. After the surgery one week later & out of pain medication I had a small cough it kind of hurt but it wasn't that bad took DayQuil liquid.< /p>