“How do you detox after general anesthesia?”
I had surgery under general anesthesia yesterday. I want to know how do you detox after general anesthesia?
7 Answers
You don't need to detox. The medications will leave your body pretty quickly under normal circumstances.
To have all traces of drugs and agents given to you during general anesthesia, the tincture of time is the only answer and the speed with which those effects dissipate depends directly on their specific drug elimination half-lives. That usually means in a day or two, perhaps up to a week if you need to perform higher cognitive skills (solving differential equations, piloting a jet aircraft, or playing a Rachmaninoff piano concerto).
No need. Your body metabolizes the drugs
Detox is not really necessary, but water and vitamins can't hurt
Hi,
The inhalational anesthetic used to keep you asleep during surgery is eliminated from the body through the respiratory system by breathing fresh air in and breathing out the anesthetic agent. However, there are other agents that are given to patients through their veins to keep them comfortable during general anesthesia. These agents are metabolized by the liver, and excreted by the kidneys.
Sincerely,
M. Tabatabai, MD, PhD
The inhalational anesthetic used to keep you asleep during surgery is eliminated from the body through the respiratory system by breathing fresh air in and breathing out the anesthetic agent. However, there are other agents that are given to patients through their veins to keep them comfortable during general anesthesia. These agents are metabolized by the liver, and excreted by the kidneys.
Sincerely,
M. Tabatabai, MD, PhD
It dissipates rapidly on its own. It takes longer to recover, the longer the surgery, and in the elderly, there are also different gases and medication that take different times to leave the body. One can usually expect the anesthesia to be essentially gone in a day. If narcotics were used, it could take a little longer. There is no need to detox.
Hi. There’s no quick way to speed up the process. It all depends on your ability to breathe off the anesthesia gases which are detectable in your blood for 24 hours. A lot of this depends on your duration of anesthesia. You liver and kidneys also metabolize the meds you received. Key is to rest and hydrate
