There is not much harm in doing gastroscopy, but it is a little disgusting and uncomfortable. It's not as painful as people say, and it won't do much harm to health. It won't have any effect if you mainly cooperate with the doctor's operation.
Now the endoscope is getting thinner and softer, and the viewing angle is getting wider and wider, so it is unlikely to directly cause perforation. In addition, in recent years, with the specialization of endoscopist training, the technology has become more and more mature, and it can be said that gastroscope perforation has occurred clinically. This possibility can be said to be very rare and generally very safe.
But these people should be careful to do gastroscopy:
1. Suffering from serious heart diseases such as severe arrhythmia, active myocardial infarction and severe heart failure.
2. Suffering from severe lung diseases such as asthma and respiratory failure.
3. Mental disorder, inability to cooperate independently, advanced age, and particularly weak constitution.
4. Acute stage of esophageal and gastroduodenal perforation, acute severe throat disease and corrosive esophageal injury.
How to check your stomach trouble that you don't want to do gastroscopy? You don't have to do a gastroscope to see stomach trouble. There are many kinds of stomach diseases. Each type of stomach disease is different, and the corresponding examination and treatment methods are slightly different. Therefore, when you want to check your stomach trouble, you don't have to do a gastroscope. You should choose the appropriate inspection method according to your personal situation.
Besides gastroscope, there are several inspection methods.
Endoscopic ultrasonography can be used to diagnose whether there are lesions in deep tissues, which has certain diagnostic significance for gastric cancer with obvious masses.
X-ray barium meal examination must use contrast agent, and after the contrast agent flows effectively, the morphological characteristics of the stomach can be determined by X-ray examination.
This method can be used to diagnose the existence of Helicobacter pylori and the damage in the stomach.
Routine stool can be used to determine the bleeding situation in the stomach and better judge some abnormal phenomena in the digestive tract.
Do healthy people need gastroscope? If a person has a family member with digestive tract tumor, it is suggested to have a gastroscopy screening every 1 ~ 2 years from the age of 40. Those who have symptoms such as acid reflux, heartburn, nausea, vomiting, belching, abdominal distension, epigastric discomfort and pain, loss of appetite and indigestion should have a gastroscopy as soon as possible.
If you don't have such a history of digestive tract tumors, you can have a gastroscopy every 2 to 3 years from the age of 43. Gastroscope can greatly increase the proportion of early cancer detection and greatly improve the therapeutic effect. It can give doctors and patients a chance to completely overcome the disease of gastric cancer.