Pre-op here. I've been reading many of these posts and it sound like milk helps with keeping fluids down. We only drink almond milk, it's higher in calcium, lower in calories, but it's heavier than skim. Does anyone have experience with almond milk post-surgery? Did it make you ill?

Almond milk is great bang for the buck calorie wise, but it doesn't have a lot of nutritional value. I didn't really think about this until meeting with my RD pre-op. So she encourages soy milk rather than almond milk (I drink lite soy milk). It has more calories, but a LOT more protein than almond milk. When I was immediately post-op and the pre-made protein shakes were too thick/sweet for me, I thinned them out with almond milk, and it worked great. Just the right viscosity. No problems keeping it down, but I haven't had much of a problem with nausea or vomiting, thank goodness (I'm almost 3 months post op).

If you wanted to use almond milk, you could add protein powder to it.