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Why do they mix the barium with Kool-Aid

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Susie1226    138

Susie1226
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Had my surgery yesterday the 19th. Pain was bad upon waking up but it has improved. So has my walking. I walked down the hallway only as far as my room yesterday. Today I did 2 laps around the hallway.

Did my leak test and passed. Why they put grape Kool-Aid in it I will never know. Now I can't look at the stuff without gagging. If all goes well, I should be released tomorrow. Waiting for my tray of liquids.

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leeann71    539

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First off Congratulations, welcome to the sleeve side. So good to here everything went well. As for mixing barium with kool aid I have no idea, I wish they would of mixed mine like that. The taste of that stuff is horrible lol. I was just thinking, do you have a drain? If you do maybe it to see if there is any leaks and if there was it would come out of the drain purple. Again congrats our new sleeve sister :-)

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ASKSARAH - Sleeve    256

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I have never heard of any hospital putting flavor in the contrast. I just drank it. That's weird

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ASKSARAH - Sleeve    256

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I had blue dye for my drain test however That tasted like liquid hell

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mcwestfam    123

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Was it a clear liquid the have you? Or a white chalky mixture? Barium is the white chalky one. They usually don't give that to sleeve patients. Usually they use gastrographin which tastes horrible!! So that's why they probably mixed it with kool aid for you :)

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JerseyGirl68    1,172

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Congratulations! So happy you made it through the surgery well. Keep up the walking, it will help so much. Have a great recovery! Welcome to the losers bench!

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joatsaint    2,814

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Congrats on your sucessful surgery and making through the leak test. Yuk!

They mix it with Kool-Aid cause the nurses never get tired of seeing the Kool-Aid man burst through the wall. :P

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lessofmeismore    1,405

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Congrats on your sucessful surgery and making through the leak test. Yuk!

They mix it with Kool-Aid cause the nurses never get tired of seeing the Kool-Aid man burst through the wall. :P

Oh I loved that commercial as a kid hehe!!!

:)

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Pookeyism    1,143

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Mine was not mixed with anything, but I was told they mix it with blue dye or strong dark purple colors sometimes so that if they did somehow miss a leak, it would be unmistakable coming out of the drainage tube.

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Ms.AntiBand    2,984

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Was it a clear liquid the have you? Or a white chalky mixture? Barium is the white chalky one. They usually don't give that to sleeve patients. Usually they use gastrographin which tastes horrible!! So that's why they probably mixed it with kool aid for you :)

When I have my bi-yearly cat scans the they make me drink Barium (chalky stuff) and it actually comes in a couple flavors. But the gastrographin (fluid from hell) used for the leak test is clear and flavor is added to cover the bitterness of the iodine

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