# Hospital Ice Chips **URL:** \ **Category:** Health\ **Created:** [September 8, 2021, 7:12am UTC](https://howtodiscuss.com/t/hospital-ice-chips/84279 "2021-09-08T07:12:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
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## **Hospital Ice Chips** Why do other patients give ice cubes instead of water? 3 One important reason is that a person who has had surgery does not want anything in their abdomen that causes nausea or pain. After abdominal surgery, the last thing patients need is to compress their abdomen during exercise. This is very painful. The second is that if the patient has nausea and abdominal pain (even water) then he should not try. If the patient sucks it into his lungs, it will be very bad. The acid will eat the lung tissue (as unsafe as the stomach). Ice cubes are used only to moisten the mouth. It all helps. All ice cubes #### **Hospital Ice Chips** --- _[View the full topic](https://howtodiscuss.com/t/hospital-ice-chips/84279)._