Can You Drink After Gastric Bypass?

It will depend upon the nature of surgery. For minor operation under a local or regional Anaesthesia one can drink immediately after surgery. For major surgery and bowel surgery you may need to start from little sips of drink after recovering from your Anaesthesia,and gradually progress to free fluids and diet. Anaesthetic agents can give rise to some nausea and this may delay and prevent drinking immediately after surgery.