Can I have a gastroscopy during menstruation?

Gastroscopy is one of the commonly used methods in modern medicine to examine gastric diseases. Through gastroscopy, the lesions in the patient's stomach can be clearly seen, allowing accurate treatment to be carried out. Gastroscopy consumes a lot of human energy, so many patients with poor physical condition or in special periods, as well as patients with problems with organs such as the heart, cannot undergo gastroscopy. So, can women undergo gastroscopy during menstruation?

Gastroscopy is a medical examination method and also refers to the instrument used for this examination. It is inserted into the stomach through a thin, soft tube, allowing doctors to directly observe lesions in the esophagus, stomach and duodenum, especially tiny lesions.

Who needs a gastroscopy?

1. Whenever there is suspicion of esophageal disease. Gastric and duodenal diseases that cannot be diagnosed after comprehensive examination (including X-ray examination).

2. Esophagus. Gastric and duodenal ulcers can be detected by gastroscopy, and their healing can be followed up to distinguish between benign and malignant.

3. For patients suspected of esophageal cancer and gastric cancer, gastroscopy can improve the accuracy of diagnosis, detect early medical history, and provide treatment.

4. Gastroscopy can diagnose upper gastrointestinal polyps and raised lesions and provide treatment.

5. If symptoms are found in patients after gastric surgery, lesions can be detected by gastroscopy and followed up.

6. Pain behind the sternum. Burning sensation and difficulty swallowing, suspected esophageal disease.

7. Gastroscopy can also reveal other rare diseases, some of which can be treated with gastroscopy.

8. Emergency gastroscopy can be used to check for cases of massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding, determine the cause, and provide treatment.

9. Chronic inflammation of the upper gastrointestinal tract requires diagnosis with the help of gastroscopy; chronic atrophic gastritis with intestinal metaplasia or atypical hyperplasia can be diagnosed and followed up by gastroscopy.

Who can’t have a gastroscopy? Absolute contraindications:

1. Severe cardiopulmonary disease, unable to tolerate endoscopic examination;

2. Critically ill patients suspected of shock or gastrointestinal perforation;

3. Those who suffer from mental illness and cannot cooperate with endoscopic examination;

4. Patients with acute inflammation of the digestive tract, especially corrosive inflammation;

5. Obvious thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysm;

6. Stroke patients.

Things to note before gastroscopy:

1. Do not smoke the day before the examination to avoid intubation affected by coughing; no smoking can also reduce gastric acid secretion, making it easier for doctors to observe.

2. In order to eliminate the patient's nervousness, reduce gastric juice secretion and gastric motility, expel the foam in the stomach, and make the image clearer, the doctor should give the patient sedatives, antispasmodics and defoaming agents 20-30 minutes before the examination if necessary.

3. The patient must fast for at least 6 hours before the examination. If the examination is conducted in the morning, you should fast after dinner the day before and skip breakfast on that day. If the examination is conducted in the afternoon, you can eat light semi-liquid food for breakfast and fast at noon. Patients with severe illness or weak constitution may have difficulty supporting themselves after fasting, and hypertonic glucose solution should be injected intravenously before examination.