Several days prior to your test, you will need pick up a FLEET’s preparation kit #1 at your pharmacy. You will also need 2 Barium tablets and 1 bottle of Liquid Barium at the ODC at MeadowView Lane.

Two Days Prior to Your Virtual Colonoscopy

Two days prior to your test, you should have a full liquid diet all day. No solid foods but you may have any type of liquids (including milk and milk products). Take a barium tablet at dinnertime and drink 50Ml of the liquid barium with 8 oz. of water at bedtime. Clear liquids only after midnight.

One Day Prior to Your Virtual Colonoscopy

The day prior to your virtual colonoscopy, you should have a clear liquid diet only. This includes chicken or beef broth, ginger ale, Sprite, Coke or Pepsi products, coffee or tea (without cream), apple juice or white grape juice, Jello, popsicles and Gatorade (NO RED or PURPLE).

YOU MUST DRINK ALL OF THE CLEAR LIQUIDS LISTED IN THE INSTRUCTIONS below. You may drink more but no less. You may start clear liquids when you wake up.

12 Noon
Take the second barium tablet and mix the remaining liquid barium with 8 oz of water. 1 p.m.
Drink at least 8 oz of clear liquids.

2 p.m.
Drink at least 8 oz of clear liquids.

2:30 p.m.
Drink at least 8 oz of clear liquids.

3 p.m.
Start Fleet prep kit #1 and follow our instructions. Drink 1.5 oz of Fleet Phos-phosoda at 3 p.m. You may divide it into three parts, mixing each part with 1-2 oz of water. Drink one part, wait a few minutes, and drink another. Repeat until gone.

5 p.m.
Drink at least 8 oz of clear liquids.

6 p.m.
Drink at least 8 oz of clear liquids.

8 p.m.
Take 4 Fleet Bisacodyl tablets and do not drink anything after midnight.

Day of the Procedure
On the day of the procedure, please DO NOT EAT or DRINK anything (unless you have an afternoon appointment of 1 p.m. or later; in which you may have one item on the clear liquid diet before 8 a.m.). Use the suppository 1 hour before you leave home.