People who are not suitable for painless colonoscopy

People often suffer from some diseases in their intestines, such as gastroenteritis, intestinal inflammation, intestinal blockage, etc. If there is a problem with a person's intestines. You can choose to take medicine for treatment. If the medicine does not work after taking it for a long time, you need to go to the hospital for timely treatment. In hospitals, doctors often choose to use colonoscopy to treat intestinal diseases. Let’s take a look at the people who are not suitable for painless colonoscopy.

How is colonoscopy performed?

1. First of all, you need to take laxatives the day before the colonoscopy. The purpose is to clean the intestines so that the doctor will not get poop on his hands when he is examining you. You must follow the doctor's instructions on the amount of medicine to take, because if the intestines are not clean, the doctor cannot perform a colon examination.

2. Enter the examination room for examination, take off your pants according to the doctor's instructions, don't feel embarrassed, and then lie on your side on the examination bed. The doctor will then insert a tube with a lens into your anus and continue to push it inward. During the pushing process, the doctor may add air to expand the intestine, which will cause you to feel a strong bloating in your stomach.

3. During the insertion process, the doctor will observe and ask you if you feel any discomfort. He will constantly press your abdomen to check the degree of expansion of your stomach. If you feel that your stomach is really uncomfortable, you can ask the doctor to pause. When the colonoscope enters the part that the doctor wants to examine, the doctor can check it through the instrument on the side.

People who are not suitable for colonoscopy

1. People with severe suppurative inflammation in the anus or rectum, such as perianal abscess, or painful lesions such as anal fissure. Because conducting an examination under these circumstances may lead to the spread of infection, causing unbearable pain to the patient, etc.;

2. Various acute enteritis, severe ischemic diseases and radiation colitis, such as active bacillary dysentery, acute stage of ulcerative colitis, especially the fulminant type. Because when the intestinal inflammation causes edema and congestion, the intestinal wall tissue is thin and the compliance is reduced, making intestinal perforation more likely to occur;

3. During pregnancy, women should strictly follow the indications and proceed with caution. Women should not be examined during menstruation to avoid ascending infection.

4. In cases of peritonitis, intestinal perforation, etc., it is not advisable to conduct examinations to avoid aggravating the condition;

5. When there are extensive adhesions in the abdominal cavity and intestinal stenosis caused by various reasons, which makes it difficult to insert the endoscope, do not force the examination to continue, so as to avoid tearing of adhesion bands, mesentery or intestinal wall;

6. Patients who are extremely weak, elderly, or have a history of severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and cannot tolerate the examination must be cautious;

7. Children and mentally ill patients should not be examined. If necessary, the examination can be performed under anesthesia.