Is gastroscopy painful?

1 What is gastroscopy? Gastroscope is a slender soft plastic tube with a diameter of about 1 cm, which is covered with optical fiber. The front end is equipped with an endoscope, which extends from the patient's mouth into the stomach to examine the patient's esophagus, stomach and duodenum.

Gastroscopy can directly observe the real situation of the examined site, and further diagnose it through pathological biopsy and cytological examination of the suspected lesion site. It is the first choice for upper digestive tract diseases.

Does gastroscopy hurt? Traditional gastroscopy general gastroscopy, doctors often hold the front end of the mirror with the right hand and slowly put the gastroscope in the mouth to the base of the tongue. At this time, there will be obvious nausea and swallowing movements. With the swallowing action, the upper mouth of the esophagus opens, and the doctor will insert the gastroscope into the esophagus along the opening at the moment of opening.

Traditional gastroscopy is long and painful. Nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain often bring difficulties to gastroscopy, or patients are afraid or refuse to do gastroscopy as soon as they hear it. The word "doing gastroscopy" gives people the feeling of pain and nausea. According to relevant data, about half of the patients who have undergone gastroscopy and treatment are unwilling to undergo another examination, and more than one third of them are afraid. Moreover, throat discomfort or pain or hoarseness will occur in the short term after the examination.

Painless electronic gastroscope At present, most hospitals use an anesthetic method for "painless" examination, but this is not a real painless gastroscope, and it has certain side effects, such as respiratory depression or even suspension, decreased heart rate and blood pressure, and decreased cardiac output. There will be some nausea.

The real painless gastroscope is examined with the most advanced painless gastrointestinal examination instrument. It adopts mirror scanning science and technology, and uses ultrasonic AIDS harmless to the human body to scan the inside of the human body in all directions, so as to obtain the results of gastrointestinal examination, without intubation anesthesia, without side effects, very easy, fast, without any pain and accurate results.

How painful is gastroscopy? Gastroscopy does not hurt. I feel sick and want to vomit when I intubate. When the tube is inserted into the throat, tears will fall reflexively. When you check, you will feel that the days are like years, your breath is not smooth, you seem to be suffocating, and you will retch for a long time after you finish.

The whole process takes about 5- 10 minutes, which varies from person to person. Cooperate with the doctor to check the time is short, and cooperate badly to prolong the pain time.

4 Contraindications for gastroscopy Absolute contraindications (1) Serious heart diseases such as severe arrhythmia, active myocardial infarction and severe heart failure.

(2) Severe lung diseases: those who cannot lie flat due to asthma and respiratory failure.

(3) Patients with severe hypertension, mental illness and obvious disturbance of consciousness cannot cooperate.

(4) Acute perforation of esophagus, stomach and duodenum.

(5) Patients with acute severe throat diseases who cannot be inserted into gastroscope.

(6) Acute stage of corrosive esophageal injury.

Relative contraindication: acute attack or chronic disease, which can be recovered after treatment, such as acute tonsillitis, pharyngitis and acute attack of asthma.