Digestive tract barium meal examination method

When a disease occurs in the digestive tract, the best way to examine it is a barium meal examination. Through this examination, you can understand the symptoms of the digestive tract at a glance. Therefore, many patients with digestive tract diseases want to fully understand the method of barium meal examination. A detailed introduction is given below, so you can learn about it.

method

1. Before taking barium, first do a chest and abdominal X-ray. If there is too much gastric juice or a large amount of food retention, it should be evacuated first.

2. Under fluoroscopy, first swallow a mouthful of concentrated barium, examine the esophagus as usual, then apply pressure to massage the stomach or rotate in the supine position to allow the barium to evenly adhere to the gastric wall mucosa, observe the mucosal condition in detail, and take a gastric mucosal X-ray if necessary.

3. After swallowing most of the barium meal, examine the stomach and duodenum in detail and take X-rays according to a certain procedure and different body positions.

4. 30 minutes after the stomach and duodenum examination, take 20-40 mg of metoclopramide (Metoclopramide) immediately to promote the passage of barium. Observe the entire small intestine 30 minutes after taking the medicine; observe the cecum, ascending colon, and transverse colon 1 hour after taking the medicine, and continue to observe the descending colon and sigmoid colon if necessary.

Precautions

1. Do not take medicines containing metals (such as calcium tablets, etc.) from the day before the examination.

2. The barium meal must be mixed evenly and have appropriate viscosity. No small barium lumps should be present to avoid misdiagnosis.

3. It is best to wear underwear without buttons during the examination.

4. Do not eat anything during the examination and re-examine if necessary.

The above content comprehensively introduces the method of gastrointestinal barium meal examination. Therefore, after a comprehensive understanding, for many patients with gastrointestinal diseases, when they develop gastrointestinal diseases, in order to recover as soon as possible, they must undergo a gastrointestinal barium meal examination as soon as possible. After the examination confirms the condition, they should recover through treatment as soon as possible.