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🚫 Why You Can't Eat Before Surgery
Your stomach contents could literally choke you under anesthesia.
How Anesthesia Affects Your Body
- General **anesthesia** puts you into a deep, drug-induced sleep.
- It shuts down your body's automatic reflexes, including the ones that keep your airway clear.
- When you are under, you cannot cough or swallow to protect your throat.
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