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:
Sounding is a procedure that is done withusing 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.
This manipulation can be carried out for three reasons:
Thanks to this manipulation, it is possible to identify many diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Including such, as:
It should be noted that sounding is a procedure that has its own contraindications. It is impossible to conduct in such cases:
Before starting the procedure, preparation forsounding. 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:
Before probing the specialist must necessarily specify the patient about possible diseases, as well as the presence of allergic reactions to medications.
After clarification of all 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 test 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. A roller is placed under the head.
Only then begin to inject the probe into either the duodenum or into the stomach. A specialist with a camera monitors all the changes inside that are viewed on the screen.
Probing is a medical procedure, inthe process of which you can take juice from the stomach for a more thorough analysis. For this purpose, either a syringe or pump is attached to the tube for this process.
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.
When it is necessary to carry out sounding to the child, thisoccurs in exactly the same way as in an adult. The only difference is that there is another person who keeps a small patient on his knees, 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, good at wrapping it.
Probing for washing is mostly done in the hospital during poisoning, but in some cases people do it themselves at home. This procedure is quite simple:
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 insert two fingers into the oral cavity so that vomiting appears. They should be maintained for some time.
If food poisoning happened, then into the watera little bit of potassium permanganate is added. Before use, strain through gauze. Since undissolved crystals of the agent can provoke a burn in the gastrointestinal tract.
Such manipulations are aimed atfrom an organism harmful substances got with food stuffs, while they did not manage to get into the blood composition and did not affect negatively on other internal organs.
It is worth noting that if a person who has fallen ill does notI'm sure what 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.
If before the procedure of sounding was to passa bit scary, since a tube with a diameter of thirteen millimeters was introduced, which caused not only discomfort, but also pain, but 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 gag reflex.
