Differences between small bowel radiography and colonoscopy

If you have any internal small intestine disease, you must go to the hospital for a correct test. There are many ways to detect internal small intestine disease. The two most common types are small intestine radiography and small intestine enterography. Both small intestine angiography and small intestine endoscopy can effectively detect pathological reactions inside the small intestine, but what is the difference between these two detection methods?

What is enterography? How should it be performed?

Enterography is used to check for gastrointestinal bleeding, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Patients are advised not to be nervous, go to the hospital for examination in the morning, and take a barium meal orally under the guidance of a doctor. Then, the movement of the barium in the gastrointestinal tract is checked under an X-ray machine, and the disease is checked based on the movement.

What are the precautions for small enterography? What diseases are examined?

One or two days before the angiography, you must eat soft food that is easily digestible and must avoid taking high-molecular-weight drugs. Do not eat or drink anything the night before the test. One or two hours before small enterography, you should drink 50% barium sulfate suspension on an empty stomach, about 200-400 ml. The main diseases examined by small enterography include: malignant ovarian peritoneal mesothelioma, Podger-Jegher syndrome in children, Meckel's diverticulum in children, intestinal fistula, inflammatory bowel disease in the elderly, Crohn's disease, ovarian cancer, bacillary dysentery, small intestinal foreign bodies, and gallstone intestinal obstruction.

What are the methods for detecting small intestinal diseases?

1. Taking barium for small intestinal angiography can show the location and range of small intestinal diseases, but the accuracy is not very high.

2. Capsule endoscopy can be used to examine the small intestine. The patient only needs to swallow a capsule the size of a paper clip and then put on a data vest. After the capsule enters the small intestine, the patient can leave the hospital. The examination process takes about 8-10 hours. After the examination, the capsule can be discharged from the anus by itself. This examination is safe and non-traumatic, but it cannot perform pathological examinations or endoscopic treatments.

What diseases can colonoscopy detect?

Colonoscopy is an irreplaceable method for intestinal disease examination. It is currently the best choice for diagnosing colorectal mucosal lesions and an irreplaceable method for various intestinal disease examinations. The colonoscopy is performed on the rectum and colon. It can detect tumors, inflammation, polyps and other lesions in the intestine, and can also be used to treat diseases. Before doing a colonoscopy, you also need to prepare for intestinal cleaning so that you can accurately diagnose the disease.

However, endoscopy is an invasive examination method with certain discomfort and complications. Therefore, many people are afraid of this examination, which causes some colorectal lesions and even tumors to not be diagnosed early, thus delaying the best time for treatment.

In recent years, with the advancement of anesthetic drugs and medical monitoring technology, painless colonoscopy has emerged. Its essence is to inject an anesthetic drug intravenously before the examination, which has a fast onset, short effective time and definite effect, so that the patient can fall asleep within a few seconds and wake up early after completing all examinations. There will be no discomfort or pain during the examination, so it is becoming more and more popular among patients. However, colonoscopy also has its shortcomings, such as anesthesia accidents, sometimes a long anesthesia recovery process, and high costs.

Intestinal cleanliness is one of the key factors in the success or failure of colonoscopy. If there is still a lot of feces in the intestines during the examination, it will affect the insertion of the endoscope and observation, and may even make it impossible to complete the full colon examination. Therefore, it is very important to clean and prepare the intestines before examination. Oral diarrhea medicine is one of the most commonly used, reliable and safe methods in clinical practice. There are certain risks in colonoscopy. For your safety, people over 60 years old should undergo an electrocardiogram.

When our stomach and intestines are suffering from diseases, we usually use colonoscopy for examination. Colonoscopy is a relatively advanced medical examination device. The diameter of this device is about one centimeter and it can be bent. This device can enter our rectum through our liver portal and all the way to our large intestine, so that the hospital can better observe the situation inside our large intestine. When doing this examination, we can go to the anorectal department of the hospital. If the hospital does not have an anorectal department, we can go to the general surgery department.