Eating or drinking before colon-hydrotherapy?

A colon hydro-therapist told me one time to not eat anything, not even one bite, or drink 1 sip not even of water before colon hydro-therapy.

I think she is wrong, for many reasons...but, what do you all think?

She is incorrect.

While I wouldn't eat a lot, a few bites or a small drink would be fine. Don't go in hungry.

I always get the best results by eating lightly, like cheese crackers and coffee before the cleansing. It gets the peristaltic response moving before I sart the enema and I expell better. If I'm on an empty stomach, the water tends to stay inside and expelling takes a long time with several trips to the toilet at inopportune moments.

Water is OK. I would do that on an empty stomach. Just so it doesn't come out both ends at once.

I have worked with several therapists over the years and no one has told me that. I have had a therapist tell me to do a juice fast for several days before the clense. I have never had poor results or felt nausea during an clense. I can imagine that some would.

She is incorrect.

A small meal may even be helpful to prevent hypoglycemic episodes.

The only time the no food request should apply is if the colonic was preparatory to a colonoscopy. In that case you really should be clean.

Having had a colonic then a colonoscopy the next morning and following the printed instruction from the digestive health clinic made for positive experience. It wasn't a pleasant procedure but it was necessary. So look at the positive /benefits side of an unpleasant procedure.

Thank you all for your replies! You helped remove the "guilt" associated with trying to cleanse, and being hungry also! I have had episodes after colon hydrotherapy before. Dizziness & extreme thirst. So, I am glad to hear that a snack can help with that.

I've only been to a hydro-therapist a couple of times as I'm more into getting off on enemas as part of sex or masterbation,but I think the one you went to was wrong. A colonic by design only cleans the lg intestine. Unless you're doing a full multiday cleans there should be no reason to fast before hydro-therapy.

My therapist always told me to drink a lot in the days before the colonic, but to avoid drinking and eating two hours before the appointment. It is not a pleasant abdominal massage with a full stomach

Long ago it seems colonic sessions lasted longer than now. I'm digressing, staying on the track of snack or not before enema, I prefer a few hours before to have a light energy nibble, not much in bulk though.