Probing is ... Preparing and conducting

Sounding is manipulation in medicine. It can be carried out both in the hospital and at home in the patient. The process itself consists in injecting a probe through the oral cavity or nasal into the stomach. The procedure itself is not very pleasant. Although it is carried out without pain. It can be accompanied by such symptoms:

• nausea;
• Spasms;
• Vomiting reflexes.

Sounding is a procedure that is done using a special tube called a probe. It can be of different thickness and length. At the end of the probe is a small camera and a lighting device. This tube is connected to the pump or screen.

Indications for the procedure

This manipulation can be carried out for three reasons:

1. When it is necessary to diagnose diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
2. When it is required to wash the stomach when poisoning occurs or when there is obstruction in the intestine. Also before the diagnosis.
3. To make a sounding can still, when the patient is in a stubble state and with the help of this device the meal is carried out.

What does the examination show?

Due to this manipulation it is possible to identify many diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Including such, as:

• gastritis;
• ulcer;
• Polyps;
• Oncological tumors.

Contraindications

It should be noted that sounding is a procedure that has its own contraindications. It is impossible to conduct in such cases:

• During the bearing of the child;
• At illnesses of hypertonic character;
• With bleeding stomach;
• The widening of the veins in the esophagus;
• If the presence of a cough reflex is not observed;
• When there are burns in the area of the gastrointestinal tract;
• In the presence of epilepsy;
• When there are slight curvatures of the spine in the region of the cervico-thoracic region.

Preparation

Before starting the procedure, preparation for probing is necessary. Its main goal is complete liberation of the stomach. It is necessary that a specialist without obstacles can consider the presence of the slightest pathologies in the gastrointestinal tract. To do this, you should:

• Last time to eat only until six o'clock in the evening before morning manipulation;
• Categorically it is forbidden to eat food provoking gas formation;
• For self-washing of the stomach you need to use only water throughout the evening;
• To smoke since morning also it is impossible.

What is done before the procedure?

Before probing the specialist must necessarily specify the patient about possible diseases, as well as the presence of allergic reactions to medications.

After clarifying all the necessary information, a rotor-expander is inserted into the oral cavity. Since during this procedure, this part of the face should be in the open position.

Also, a test is performed for the presence of an allergic reaction to "lidocaine." If it is not observed, then the back of the pharynx is irrigated to make anesthesia.

The patient is placed on a couch, in a pose on his side, his legs are bent at the knees, one arm is bent in the chest area. Under the head put the roller.

Only then begin to inject the probe into either the duodenum or into the stomach. The specialist uses the camera to observe all the changes inside that are viewed on the screen.

Other objectives of sounding

Probing is a medical procedure, in the process of which you can take juice from the stomach for more thorough analysis. For this purpose, either a syringe or pump designed for this process is attached to the tube.

With the help of probing, the stomach is washed. Here, a special tube is used, at the end of which a funnel is attached. It is designed for infusion and pouring of purified water.

While doing probing of this nature, the patient is in a sitting position. An exception is a patient unconscious. Then he is injected with a thin tube through the nose and rinses.

Features of the procedure for the child

When it is necessary to carry out sounding to a child, this is exactly the same as for an adult. The only difference is that there is another person who keeps a small patient on his lap, and in the process holds both his head and himself, so as not to break out.

If the child is too small, then his body is fixed with the help of a sheet, well when wrapped.

Sensing for washing at home

Probing for rinsing is mostly done in the hospital during poisoning, but in some cases people do it themselves while at home. This procedure is quite simple:

• It is necessary to get drunk with warm boiled water;
• After a minute, artificially provoke vomiting.

This manipulation should be done several times, with each approach using at least one and a half liters of water.

This washing should be done gently to the child. At the same time, to control, soaking up the liquid completely left the body.

To induce vomiting, you need to put two fingers into the oral cavity so that vomiting appears. They should be maintained for some time.

If food poisoning happened, then a bit of potassium permanganate is added to the water. Before application, strain through gauze. Since undissolved crystals of the agent can provoke a burn in the gastrointestinal tract.

Such manipulations are aimed at removing from the body harmful substances that have fallen into the food supply, until they have time to get into the blood and have not affected negatively on other internal organs.

It is worth noting that if a person who is ill is not sure of the nature of his poisoning, then wash the stomach at home is undesirable. Why? When the cause of the disease is petrochemical products, then together with water can not only provoke an even more poisonous process, but also form burns of the mucous membrane in the gastrointestinal tract.

Conclusion

If earlier the procedure of probing was a bit scary, since a tube with a diameter of thirteen millimeters was introduced, which caused not only discomfort, but also pain, today it is much easier. A probe with a diameter of five millimeters is used for the procedure. The maximum that the patient feels is a slight vomiting reflex.