Gastroscopy of the stomach without swallowing the probe

Many patients who have digestive problems do not hurry to consult a doctor only because of "anticipation" of discomfort from such a diagnostic method as gastroscopy. Indeed, swallowing a probe is an unpleasant procedure, so doctors are often asked: does gastroscopy exist without swallowing the probe?

Indeed, there is an alternative to probe gastroscopy - this is the so-called capsular gastroscopy. However, it is not carried out in all clinics, and the cost of this diagnosis leaves much to be desired. Nevertheless, gastroscopy of the stomach without swallowing the probe remains in demand, despite some of its drawbacks.

Capsular type of diagnosis - gastroscopy of the stomach without swallowing the probe is a relatively new and little-known procedure by which it is possible to assess the condition of the whole digestive tract of a person. Diagnostics - bezsondovuyu gastroscopy - is carried out using a specific capsule, inside which is built a mini-camera. Passing along the entire length of the digestive tract, the camera can make 60 thousand photographic shots for almost eight hours. Each doctor takes a picture on the monitor with a bluetooth connection.

Until the appearance of a new technique, gastric gastroscopy procedure without swallowing the probe was unrealistic.

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Indications for the procedure

Gastroscopy of the stomach without swallowing the probe can be recommended in the following cases:

• with pain in the stomach, to determine the cause of the pain;
• with gastric bleeding of unexplained origin (with the appearance of blood in feces );
• with any diseases of the digestive system and the impossibility of carrying out the procedure with the swallowing of the probe (for example, if the patient experiences fear or rejection when inserting the probe);
• to determine the cause of symptoms such as abdominal pain, flatulence, colic in stomach, nausea, feeling of pressure or foreign body ingestion of food.

In general, the indications can be the same as for the probe gastroscopy: however, the capsular variant is more comfortable and easily tolerated by patients.

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Preparation

The procedure of gastroscopy of the stomach without swallowing the probe is relatively high in cost, so it is advisable to do everything possible to increase the effectiveness and get the maximum effect from it.

What kind of preparatory measures should be taken before the bezsond-free gastroscopy?

• Three days before the diagnostic gastroscopy, it is recommended to examine the intestine to make sure it is passable.
• Two days before the diagnostic gastroscopy, it is necessary to make changes in nutrition - to exclude sweets, beans, cereals, fruits from the ration, leaving lean meat and fish, broths, stewed and boiled vegetables.
• In the evening on the eve of diagnostic gastroscopy, you need to take a special preparation for the preparation of the digestive tract for gastroscopy (on the doctor's recommendation, this can be Fortran fluid, or another remedy).
• The day before the diagnosis - bezsondovoy gastroscopy, you need to "forget" about smoking and alcoholic beverages.
• On the eve of a bezsonde gastroscopy, one should not eat food, so that the food mass does not affect the quality of the pictures.
• Approximately 0.5-1 hour before the diagnostic gastroscopy is recommended to take Espomizan.
• After swallowing the capsule, you should drink clean water (at least once per hour). Allowed 4 hours after swallowing the capsule is easy to eat. A full meal is allowed only after eight hours.

Preparation for stomach gastroscopy: what can and can not be eaten, diet

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Technique of the gastroscopy of the stomach without swallowing the probe

Conducting gastroscopy of the stomach without swallowing the probe is carried out in stages:

1. The doctor attaches a special device with electrodes to the patient's stomach, which will receive a Bluetooth signal from the minicamera. After the end of the capsular gastroscopy, the doctor will remove the diagnostic device, connect it to the computer and view the resulting image.
2. The patient swallows a capsule with a mini-camera and a sensor - just like swallowing an ordinary tablet. If swallowed, the capsule after a few minutes falls into the cavity of the stomach, where it takes a series of pictures for approximately two hours. Then the minicamera descends into the intestine, and after about 24 hours it is excreted from the body naturally, with the calves.

The moment of exit of the capsule from the body is not necessary to fix, as well as extract it from the stool. All the necessary data is kept by the doctor on the device receiving the signal.

Contraindications to the procedure

Gastroscopy of the stomach without swallowing the probe has a relatively small amount of contraindications. Do not conduct this diagnosis:

• women during pregnancy;
• patients with epilepsy (with a high probability of exacerbation of the disease);
• children under the age of twelve;
• patients with a pacemaker;
• with intestinal obstruction.

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Complications after the procedure

The likelihood of complications or adverse effects after gastroscopy of the stomach without swallowing the probe is extremely minimal:

• the capsule with the mini-camera itself is made of non-toxic and not dangerous material;
• after diagnostic capsular gastroscopy, there is no need to stay in the hospital;
• The capsule is disposable and leaves the body in a natural way.

Only in some cases, patients noted the appearance of pain in the abdomen, or a change in the nature of stool. However, such complications after the procedure of bezsondovoy gastroscopy - a rarity.

Gastroscopy of the stomach without swallowing the probe is easy for patients: this kind of research is absolutely safe for health and human health. Perhaps, of the obvious "minuses" of the procedure, there are only three:

• high cost of capsule;
• impossibility to consider pathology if they are localized directly in the walls of the digestive tract - for example, some tumors;
• the inability to take biological material for histological examination.

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Care after the procedure

No special care after gastric gastroscopy procedure without swallowing the probe is required. Immediately after swallowing the capsule, the patient may be in the hospital for the entire study, or go home: the doctor will indicate at what time the examinee should appear for the transmission of the fixing sensor and for the interpretation of the results.

Expect to remove the capsule and, moreover, to withdraw it from the feces is not necessary - the capsule is used only once and after the procedure of no value (including informative) does not represent.

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Reviews

Gastroscopy of the stomach without swallowing the probe is considered a relatively new type of research. In addition, the procedure is quite expensive, so there are not so many reviews about its application. However, even now it can be said with certainty that if the patient complies with all the doctor's recommendations and is properly prepared for diagnosis, the results of the study will be as informative as possible.

Unfortunately, the mini-camera inside the capsule does not allow viewing all pathological zones, so sometimes the doctor can suggest the use of additional methods of investigation. Not all patients are able to understand this: according to many, if gastroscopy of the stomach without swallowing the probe is expensive - then it should replace all such diagnostic procedures. This, of course, is not so. Conducting a no-probe gastroscopy, first of all, is aimed at creating comfortable conditions for the patient, who for one reason or another is difficult to swallow the probe.