Is gastrointestinal endoscopy painful?

When gastrointestinal lesions are suspected, gastroscopy is a good examination method, which can directly find the lesions, or take biopsy for pathological examination and diagnose the nature of the lesions. However, gastroscopy will have some adverse reactions, such as nausea, and colonoscopy will also have some pain. Before gastroscopy, you need to eat on an empty stomach, otherwise the observation will be affected because the contents will not be eaten, and the intestinal contents should be excluded as much as possible. Therefore, it is usually discharged before inspection.

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Special reminder: Before general gastroscopy, in order to relieve the discomfort of the patient's throat and make the examination go smoothly, the medical staff will spray anesthetic on the patient's throat 3 minutes before the examination. In this regard, patients should understand and cooperate.

If there is epigastric pain, hematemesis, acid regurgitation and heartburn or unexplained weight loss and loss of appetite, you must do gastroscopy in time and do targeted treatment to avoid delaying the illness and endangering your health!

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People's Network-Does Gastrointestinal Disease Need Colonoscopy? The process of colonoscopy is like this.