As for follow up care in the next couple of days when you take him home, he shouldn’t have any sharp food products like chips or popcorn that could irritate the throat or cause abrasions or rupture sutures. Frozen ice pops will be your friend, as long as they aren’t colored with red or purple food dye. It isn’t uncommon to have nausea after this procedure, so you don’t want food dyes that could be misidentified as blood.

Also, no dairy products. Don’t promise ice cream! The suction that your mouth creates to swallow dairy is too forceful on fresh sutures in the throat. Chicken noodle soup = perfect!

Ginger ale and clear fizzy liquids in small amounts help clean the pallet and help wash down any remaining food debris.

I pray he recovers quickly and is back to his normal active self without any complications :-)

As for follow up care in the next couple of days when you take him home, he shouldn’t have any sharp food products like chips or popcorn that could irritate the throat or cause abrasions or rupture sutures. Frozen ice pops will be your friend, as long as they aren’t colored with red or purple food dye. It isn’t uncommon to have nausea after this procedure, so you don’t want food dyes that could be misidentified as blood.

Also, no dairy products. Don’t promise ice cream! The suction that your mouth creates to swallow dairy is too forceful on fresh sutures in the throat. Chicken noodle soup = perfect!