What are the precautions before doing gastroscopy?

Gastric disease is a relatively common disease. Both men and women are susceptible to these diseases. If you want to understand the health of your stomach and intestines, it is better to do a gastroscopy. You must fast for six hours before the examination, and you must not smoke for one day before the examination.

1. Fasting

The patient must fast for at least 6 hours before the examination. If the morning inspection

If the examination is to be conducted in the afternoon, one should start fasting after dinner the day before and skip breakfast on the day. If the examination is to be conducted in the afternoon, one can eat plain semi-liquid food for breakfast and fast at noon. Patients with severe illness or weak constitution may have difficulty in supporting themselves after fasting and should receive an intravenous injection of hypertonic glucose solution before the examination.

2. No smoking

Do not smoke the day before the examination to avoid intubation affected by coughing; no smoking can also reduce gastric acid secretion, making it easier for doctors to observe.

3. Give the patient a sedative

In order to eliminate the patient's nervousness, reduce gastric secretion and gastric motility, and remove the foam in the stomach to make the image clearer, the doctor may

The patient should be given sedatives, antispasmodics and de-foaming agents 20-30 minutes before the examination. Patients should understand this and cooperate with it.

4. Obey the doctor’s instructions

When taking anesthetic orally before the examination, the head should be raised to ensure the best anesthesia effect on the pharynx. Before the examination, you need to loosen your belt, take off your glasses and dentures, and follow the doctor's instructions to prevent your dentures from falling off and accidentally entering your respiratory tract or digestive tract.

During the examination, you should relax your whole body, bite the mouth pad in your mouth gently, and never spit it out to avoid damaging the gastroscope; breathe steadily through your nose, and avoid holding your breath or burping frequently; if you have saliva, let it flow out naturally, and do not swallow it.

Swallow it to prevent it from flowing into the trachea and causing choking.

1. You should cooperate with the swallowing action

When the gastroscope is inserted into the throat, you should swallow and the gastroscope can smoothly pass through the throat and enter the esophagus. If you feel nauseous, you can breathe out gently to relieve it; do not push the mirror hard with your tongue to avoid scratching it.

Bleeding occurs in the oropharynx and larynx.