Gastroscope is a very important examination method in upper digestive tract examination, and it is also an examination method for doctors to visually see the internal mucosa of digestive tract including esophagus, stomach and duodenum. Gastroscopy is usually used to evaluate persistent upper abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, bleeding or dysphagia. Gastroscopy can accurately find inflammation, tumor, infection, ulcer and other problems.

If you must say gastroscope? Hurt? Then there will be some discomfort when doing gastroscopy.

To do gastroscopy is to insert the endoscope into the stomach from the mouth for examination and present a detailed image, which usually takes ten to twenty minutes. During the process, the doctor will inject a small amount of air into the stomach to make the mucosal surface smooth and easier to observe. If necessary, the doctor will collect biopsy samples with an endoscope, or directly treat them with an endoscope, such as hemostasis. Therefore, relatively speaking, gastroscopy is an invasive examination, and most people will have some slight discomfort when accepting gastroscopy. These include:

1, local anesthetic needs to be swallowed before gastric examination, which tastes bitter. 2. Due to fear, the subject will have symptoms of dyspnea. 3. During the examination, the gastroscope enters the esophagus through the throat, and the reflection will cause nausea. 4. There may be sore throat or flatulence in the stomach after the examination, but there is no need for excessive fear.

First of all, the stomach is innervated by visceral nerves, so there will be no pain during examination, even if a biopsy sample is taken.

Secondly, in the past, the guide wire of gastroscope was relatively thick, so many subjects would have a big reaction and a strong sense of vomiting. However, with the development of science and technology, the current gastroscope guide wire is more slender and soft, which is tolerable for most patients.

Finally, as long as the candidates are not too nervous, trust the doctor, cooperate with the doctor and obey the doctor's orders, and are not too afraid, the discomfort can be alleviated or even eliminated.

Now there is a painless gastroscope. Firstly, a certain dose of short-acting anesthetic is injected intravenously to make the subjects fall asleep, and gastroscopy is performed in the unconscious state of the subjects, and they wake up quickly after the examination to achieve painless effect.

The harm of painless gastroscope mainly comes from anesthesia, and a few patients may have adverse reactions such as hypotension and increased heart rate. Therefore, some patients can't do painless gastroscopy, such as serious cardiopulmonary diseases, cardiac insufficiency, serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and even older patients. Therefore, in the choice of gastroscopy methods, we should fully listen to the opinions of doctors.

China is a country with high incidence of stomach diseases. According to statistics, the incidence of gastric diseases in China is as high as 85%, and nearly half of the patients with gastric cancer in the world are in China. At present, the best way to check stomach diseases is gastroscope (another method to check barium meal, the accuracy is not high). Gastroscopy can find many small lesions, which can be found early and treated early. Therefore, if you really have stomach trouble, you need to have a gastroscope. Don't be afraid, follow the doctor's advice and check it in time.

In addition, the higher the frequency of gastroscopy, the better. Doctors should make professional diagnosis and judgment according to different personal conditions. Many unnecessary tests not only bring physical discomfort to patients, but also cause economic waste.