How to check stomach problems? It turns out there are 5 ways to check stomach problems

In daily life, we often hear people complain about stomach pain, bloating and other conditions, which makes people's first thought is that they have stomach problems. But how do you check for stomach problems? Most people don't know much about this. In fact, there are 5 types of examinations for stomach problems, the first of which is gastroscopy.

1. Gastroscopy

Inspection and biopsy: It is the most commonly used and accurate inspection method at present. It can directly observe various lesions in the esophagus, stomach and upper duodenum, and even find 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.