How to check stomach problems

Nowadays, many young people suffer from stomach problems. Some of them are caused by irregular meals at school, some are caused by being picky eaters and cannot get used to eating outside food, and some are caused by irregular diet due to work pressure. Everyone has different symptoms of stomach disease. Some people say they have stomach disease but are not sure what kind of stomach disease they have. Let’s learn how to check for stomach problems at the hospital~

There are many clinical symptoms of gastric disease, and they take various forms. Although they are all gastric diseases, each person's symptoms are different. In addition to clinical manifestations, the diagnosis of gastric disease also often relies on laboratory tests and some morphological and other examinations to assist in diagnosis, and these examinations are sometimes extremely important.

1. Gastroscopy

Inspection and biopsy: It is a commonly used and accurate inspection method, which can directly observe various lesions in the esophagus, stomach and upper duodenum, and even detect early tiny lesions. The lesions can be biopsied for pathological examination to further clarify the diagnosis.

Gastroscopy is a very good means of examination. After obtaining certain results through gastroscopy, ultrasonic gastroscopy, pigment gastroscopy, magnifying gastroscopy and other methods can be used for examination.

2. X-ray examination

① X-ray gastric barium meal examination

In most cases of chronic gastritis, no abnormalities are found. However, the "niche shadow" that appears during barium meal examination is a direct sign of peptic ulcer and has great diagnostic value. Barium meal filling defect is also helpful for the diagnosis of gastric tumors.

However, the nature of the "niche shadows" and "filling defects" under barium meal (benign or malignant) is sometimes difficult to determine, and a gastroscopy is required for pathological diagnosis. However, barium meal is superior to gastroscopy in the diagnosis of diseases such as gastric mucosal prolapse, diverticulum, and gastric malformation.

② Abdominal position

It has certain diagnostic value for digestive tract perforation, obstruction, stones, etc.

③X-ray

For the stomach, CT and MRI methods can be used to further clarify the incidence of gastric inflammation.

3.14C-urea breath test

Helicobacter pylori: Helicobacter pylori is the main cause of peptic ulcer, chronic gastritis, and gastric mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma, and is closely related to gastric cancer. Therefore, Helicobacter pylori infection is highly valued by the medical community and patients.

4.B-ultrasound examination

Hepatobiliary diseases can be ruled out.

5. Common laboratory tests include:

Routine blood, urine and feces tests, fecal occult blood test, parasite and microbiological examination, liver function, autoantigen or (and) antibody, carcinoembryonic antigen, gastrin, secretin and other tests.

Diagnosis of gastric disease: The diagnosis can be made based on the cause, clinical manifestations and laboratory tests.