Health Tip: Surgery Can Be Traumatic

(HealthDay News) -- Surgery can be traumatic enough without worrying about how to prepare.

The Loyola University Health System offers these suggestions before your procedure:

• You may have to stop drinking and eating the night before the operation. Check with your doctor.
• Bathe the area to be operated.
• Don''t wear makeup, contacts or nail polish before surgery.
• Inform the medical staff about prosthetic or hearing devices you may be wearing.

Make sure to bring your social security number and health insurance card to the surgery.

-- Kimberly Sferruzzo

Last Updated: Oct. 26, 2005