EGD is what kind of strange letters?

In order to explain to children how the human body works, writers describe situations in which fictional characters carry out a journey through the human body, failing, for example, in the mouth of a giant.

In the Netherlands in March 2008 a museum was opened, entering into which, you get inside the person and watch the processes taking place in him. How does the body react to the bun with cheese, how does the acidity increase and decrease occur?

The doctor who does EGF, this trip does every day.

How do EGDF?

FGDS - fibrogastroduodenoscopy, or fibrogastroskopiju, FGS - appoint or nominate at suspicion on a pathology of bodies of digestion. Using a flexible probe, a sensor with a backlight is inserted into the body through the esophagus, and through a special device with an eyepiece - an endoscope - the doctor examines the digestive tract, stomach and duodenum. The method is unpleasant, but not painful.

The patient only needs to relax and breathe properly, holding the mouthpiece with his teeth. The doctor enters the probe himself during the FGD. This is much more convenient than the earlier performed examination procedure, in which the patient had to swallow the probe himself. FGS done faster than radiography. You do not need to specially prepare, drink a contrast agent, which sometimes develops an allergic reaction.

The procedure is done on an empty stomach. If you dine around 20.00, then at 8.00 you can go to the reception.

In the doctor's office, if necessary, the "Lidocaine" agent will drip onto the root of the tongue to remove the unpleasant sensations from the hose insertion as much as possible. Then the patient is laid on his left side, asked to tightly grasp the mouthpiece and insert a sensor.

Usually it takes 4-5 minutes for the procedure, and in those cases when you need to take a piece of tissue for a biopsy - 10-15.

Answers to frequently asked questions about FGS

When appointing the procedure, patients ask the following questions regarding the procedure:

• To me have appointed or nominated EGD of a stomach. What it is?
• What is the difference between gastric emptying and duodenal research, and why should I do this if my stomach hurts?
• If they take a biopsy, does it hurt?
• Gastric acidity can be learned due to EGD?
• EGD is a medical procedure or a diagnostic procedure?
• Do you need ultrasound to do an FGD ?

GGDS of the stomach and duodenum - similar procedures. They are performed together, and often the pain, which the patient calls the pain in the stomach, provokes the pathology of the duodenum.

When plucking tissue on a biopsy, there will be no painful sensation.

The doctor can make an assumption about the presence of increased or decreased acidity on the basis of the picture opened. To determine the level of acidity, another study is needed.

FGDS is a diagnostic procedure, but if it is prescribed in emergency cases, and there is the necessary equipment, during it it is possible to remove foreign bodies from the stomach and remove polyps.

Ultrasound shows a pathology, expressed in a change in the size of the organ. The condition of the tissues of ultrasound organs can not be characterized.

What can I learn about the state of the digestive system after FGS?

The diagnosis is made by the doctor after the FGD procedure is completed. The conclusion contains a description of the mucous membrane of the esophagus, stomach and duodenum, contains information on the presence or absence of ulcerative or erosive process, assessment of the contents of the stomach, motor disorders, and the state of peristalsis.