Is painless gastroscope really painless? Compared with ordinary gastroscope, which is less harmful to the body?

The biggest difference between painless gastroscope and ordinary gastroscope lies in the word "pain". Many friends have done gastroscopy, or have heard of gastroscopy. Many people are afraid of gastroscopy, because when doing gastroscopy, you need to insert a tube from your mouth into your esophagus and stomach. When this tube passes through your throat, you will feel uncomfortable and cause nausea and vomiting. Most people can tolerate it and successfully complete gastroscopy. However, some people are sensitive, which will cause serious discomfort and there is no way to successfully complete gastroscopy.

The difference between painless gastroscope and ordinary gastroscope is that the word "painless" is well obtained. Painless gastroscope is really painless and has no feeling at all. Before painless gastroscopy, the anesthesiologist will give you some anesthetic, and you will fall asleep without feeling anything. After you fall asleep, the doctor will give you a gastroscopy. After the gastroscopy, the anesthesiologist will stop taking the medicine. In a few minutes, you will wake up. During the painless gastroscopy, you have no feeling, no pain, no nausea or vomiting. When you do an ordinary gastroscope, you are awake, you know what happened, and you will have painful experiences such as vomiting and nausea.

Which is more harmful to health? Generally speaking, gastroscopy is very safe, with few side effects and little harm to the body. However, because painless gastroscope needs anesthesia, the risk will be greater than that of ordinary gastroscope, and there may be side effects of anesthesia. However, the time of painless gastroscopy is very short, the dosage of anesthetic is very small, and the probability of side effects of anesthetic is very low.

Therefore, if my family and I want to do gastroscopy, I will definitely choose painless gastroscopy first, because painless gastroscopy is painless. More than 80% gastroscopy in the United States is painless gastroscopy. In China, due to the shortage of anesthesiologists and people's fear of painless gastroscopy, the proportion of painless gastroscopy is very low.

In short, painless gastroscopy is the first choice for gastroscopy, which is very safe and completely painless.