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The page for aspiration pneumonia indicates that to prevent aspiration pneumonia people preparing for surgery are therefore instructed to take nothing by mouth 4 hours prior to surgery-(for my personal experience it was actually an 8 hour window). The next sentence says these conditions enable the entry of bacteria into the lungs, thus allowing the development of an infection. It seems contradictory to say that people preparing for surgery should not eat to prevent an aspiration pneumonia infection and then in the next sentence say this state might cause an aspiration pneumonia infection.