Colonoscopy Bowel Preparation – MOVIPREP

Three days before the test:

• IRON TABLETS must be stopped

Two days before the test start low fibre diet:

• No cereal/fruit/veges; you can have white bread, meat, fish, pasta

One day before the test:

You can eat low fibre diet until 12 pm, clear fluids after 12 pm only (see below).

• At 2pm: (or after returning home from work) mix sachet A and B in 1 litre of water and drink over 1 hour. Stir for 3-5 minutes until the solution is clear. Then drink 500 ml water.
• At 6pm: (or 3-4 hours after the first Moviprep) mix sachet A and B in 1 litre of water and drink over 1 hour. Followed by 500 ml water.
• The response varies but the prep should begin to produce diarrhoea within 1-2 hours after each glass. It is normal to have some watery motion the next morning. Do not take the second prep if you feel extemely unwell.
• YOU MAY DRINK CLEAR FLUIDS UP UNTIL 6 HOURS BEFORE THE COLONOSCOPY.
• YOU MAY HAVE:
  Water, fruit juice with no pulp eg. clear apple, pear or grape juice (but not tomato, carrot or orange), clear soups, stock cubes, barley sugars, tea and coffee without milk, soft drinks, cordials and lucozade. Jelly and jelly babies are permissible but avoid red/ black/purple ones as they darken the bowel.
• Sorbent Clean and Fresh or Kleenex Fresh wet wipes reduce anal pain from wiping.
• STOP ALL FLUIDS INCLUDING WATER 6 HOURS BEFORE THE TEST.