Please follow the instructions to ensure a good preparation: 

• Three days before your appointment follow a low residue diet and stop taking iron tablets.
  
  
• Two days before your appointment continue a low residue diet.
  
  
• One day before you appointment 
  
  

  1.	Have a normal sized breakfast from the selection on your diet sheet.  You have been sent two Bisocodyl laxative tablets. Take these after your breakfast.
  2.	Eat a light lunch. Do not eat after 12 midday. You may drink clear fluids.
  3.	Reconstitute Glycoprep at midday. Dissolve the contents of the sachet in three litres of tap water and refrigerate.
  4.	Start drinking Glycoprep at 3-5 p.m. You should drink 1 glass every 5-10 minutes, aiming to complete 3 litres over 3 hours.
  	4.1.	Once you start drinking Glycoprep you must not eat until after your colonoscopy.
  	4.2.	Feelings of bloating or nausea may occur after the first few glasses of Glycoprep. Slowing the rate of drinking can decrease nausea. Nausea should resolve after the bowel motions begin.
  	.4.3.	Keep warm while you are drinking Glycoprep.
  	4.4.	Drink unsweetened clear fluids during or after drinking Glycoprep to prevent dehydration. Drinks should be warm or hot if you are feeling cold.
  5.	When the Glycoprep is completed, you should be passing colourless or clear yellow fluid from your back passage. Keep drinking fluids until you go to bed to prevent dehydration.

  
  
• Day of your appointment
  
  

  1.	If you are passing solids or dark fluid from your back passage, you must come to the gastroenterology department by 7.30 am.
  2.	If you are passing clear or pale yellow fluid from your back passage you must have nothing to eat or drink until after your appointment. You may return to your normal diet after your colonoscopy.