Nany Maree
If you're on the jab, tell the anaesthetist. That's the whole post, love. The rest is why.
A UK study of more than 47,000 patients, published in the journal Anaesthesia, found people taking GLP-1 weight-loss drugs were eleven times more likely to regurgitate or breathe in stomach contents under a general. Mostly as they woke up. The authors are careful: it may not be the drug itself, since obesity and diabetes already raise the risk. But the anaesthetists' college here, ANZCA, has issued a warning anyway. Its president, Tanya Selak, says some patients don't mention it. They forget, they're embarrassed, or they got it from a gym or a group chat and it isn't an approved product.
Then it gets messy. A third of patients were told to stop a week before surgery. An Adelaide professor, Michael Horowitz, called that advice demonstrably stupid, because slowed stomach emptying can hang around, and stopping can hurt people using it for diabetes. His words: an accident waiting to happen. Not enough evidence either way.
So. Clear fluids for 24 hours, nothing for six, and say every single thing you're taking, bought or prescribed. No judgement, she says. I read it twice, then I made a cuppa. What you do with your body is your call. What you tell the person putting you under isn't.
Talk to your GP or health professional about your own body.
Source: ABC News, 2026-10-07
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