And more please! If to do or make a gastroscopy, before it or this it is impossible to eat? It bol...

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And more please! If to do or make a gastroscopy, before it or this it is impossible to eat? It is morbid procedure? Where it is possible to make with anesthesia?

[Rasulov M.I.]

GASTROSCOPY (ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY)
What is the esophagogastroduodenoscopy?
Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (often use the reduced name - a gastroscopy) - endoscopic research, at which visually, that is under the control of vision, the status of a mucosa of an esophagus, a stomach and a duodenum is estimated or appreciated. This research is carried out by means of the special flexible or floppy apparatus connected to a source of "cold" light that excludes a combustion mucous. Duration of research depends on pathological changes which are diagnosed by the doctor. On the average she varies from 1 till 5 minutes.
Esophagogastroduodenoscopy is carried out on an empty stomach, therefore last reception of peep should be not later than 9 one o'clock in the evening before day of research. If you accept any medicines, obsudete with your doctor the schedule of their reception in day of research.
What will occur or happen during research?
1) If you use demountable dental prostheses you will ask them to remove or take off that during research they were not displaced and have not got in respiratory ways.
2) It is necessary to unbutton the top button of clothes if a collaret enough hard, and also to weaken or easy the site of a tie.
3) to you will execute local anesthesia of fauces and pharynx. For this purpose it is necessary to open widely a mouth and under the request of the nurse or the doctor to hold the breath for some seconds. At this time on mucous and drinks or pharynxes by means of a sprayer the anesthetizing preparation of local action is put or rendered to a mouth. The preparation can have sharp taste, but do not spit out it or him.
4) to you will help or assist to lay down on a couch on the left side and will ask to save this position during all research. Try to relax, to not lift a head and to not do or make sharp movements by a neck during carrying out of an endoscope in an esophagus.
4) to you will give a special mouthpiece which needs to be bitten densely a teeth or gums or gingivas.
5) At introduction of an endoscope in an esophagus the doctor will ask you to take a sip. After the apparatus will be entered into an esophagus, try to not swallow of a saliva, she should flow down freely on the diaper enclosed or laid under a head.
During research it is very important to not hold the breath, it should be superficial and infrequent.
5) At some pathological statuses for specification of the diagnosis microscopical research of the changed sites of a mucosa which the doctor takes special forcepses is necessary - the biopsy that extends time of research for 1 2 minutes is carried out.
What will you feel during research?
6) After anesthesia (anesthesia) gradually there will come or step a numbness of tongue, a palate and there will be a sensation "komka" in a drink or pharynx, thus will be a little bit complicated proglatyvanie a saliva.
7) During research, as well as at performance of a biopsy, you will not test a pain.
8) For raspravlenija a lumen of hollow organs to which an investigated or a researched esophagus concern, a stomach and a duodenum, is entered in a small amount air, therefore will appear sensation of insignificant overflow of a stomach. After research air is sucked away or pumped out through the channel of an endoscope and a dyscomfort disappears.
When it is possible to drink and eat after esophagogastroduodenoscopy?
To accept nutrition it is possible after completely will pass or take place sensation of a numbness of tongue and pharynx to prevent hit of peep and liquids in a trachea. Usually it demands 20 30 minutes. If carried out a biopsy time of reception of nutrition will be defined or determined by the doctor. As a rule, to drink and eat it is possible in 1 1, 5 hours, it is desirable, that the nutrition was cooled. In 4 5 hours it is possible to accept nutrition habitual for you temperatures.

How to learn or find out results of research?
The detailed protocol of research and the conclusion about a status mucous an esophagus, a stomach and a duodenum will be passed to your attending physician who will give you necessary references.