To increase your intake: 1  Add berries to breakfast cereals. 2  Eat fruit for dessert. 3  Swap your usual side dish for a salad.  Snack on vegetables such as carrots, snow peas, or cherry tomatoes instead of processed snack foods.
FRCSC - This stand for Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada. To be certified in plastic surgery, doctors do a 5-year residency program after receiving their MD. Training involves on-going oral and practical evaluation. If successful, the doctor becomes FRCSC. When these initials appear after a surgeonâs name, it indicates certification in a specialty â ophthalmology, otolaryngogly or plastic surgery, for example.
In general, you should stop taking multivitamins, herbals, and aspirin / NSAID (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) prior to surgery. That said, your plastic surgeon should give you very specific pre-op instructions that includes a list of medications you should stop taking prior to surgery based on your specific medical history and the procedure you are having.