Barium meal and gastroscope which good

summary

When you do gastric examination, I believe you will be exposed to barium meal and gastroscopy. For these two methods, you may not understand the specific difference, which is better. Here, we will introduce the knowledge about this.

Barium meal and gastroscope which good

First: barium sulfate is the main component of barium meal, because it does not pass through X-ray, X-ray examination after eating can help to investigate gastrointestinal diseases. Compared with gastroscopy, it depends on what kind of disease the patient is doing. If it is gastropathy, of course gastroscopy is the best.

Second: gastroscope can directly see the image of the stomach relative to barium meal. If there is a suspicious lesion, tissue biopsy can be taken. Although there is some stimulation to the pharynx when going down gastroscope, now painless gastroscope is often used, that is, before going down the mirror, some anesthetic is given to the pharynx, so that the examinee does not feel pain.

Third: comparatively speaking, barium meal is better to do less, barium residue is troublesome, if long-term taking barium meal makes the body barium ion too much, how many times to affect their own body, the final complications will be more serious.

matters needing attention

Of course, we should choose different examination plans according to different conditions. Combined with the doctor's opinions, some diseases do not need to use gastroscope, while some diseases have to use gastroscope.