27-year-old Xiao Jiang is a white-collar worker in a company. He doesn’t like to exercise at ordinary times. He likes to stay at home and play games during his breaks. Recently, he found that his bowel movements were not normal, and he had frequent constipation. Considering that he had hemorrhoids, and that he usually drank less water, he thought it was just ordinary constipation and didn’t care. However, after a month, the constipation seemed to get worse, and sometimes there was intermittent diarrhea. After repeated urging from my parents, I finally agreed to go to the hospital for a colonoscopy. The result surprised him. There was a mass in his descending colon, which caused intestinal stenosis. The pathological result came out soon, and it was intestinal adenocarcinoma. He suffered from bowel cancer at a young age, and this result once made him very collapsed, but the matter has come to an end, and he can only arrange an operation quickly.
The role of colonoscopy in screening intestinal lesions is self-evident. It can be said that a physical examination without gastroenteroscopy is not a real physical examination. It should be known that the overall incidence of malignant tumors of the digestive tract in my country is far higher than that of European and American countries. The incidence of esophageal cancer and gastric cancer has not decreased significantly, but the incidence of intestinal cancer has increased year by year.
In my country, about 97% of patients diagnosed with advanced colorectal cancer have not undergone colonoscopy before diagnosis. Early-stage bowel cancer has almost no symptoms and must rely on colonoscopy for screening. It can be seen that colonoscopy is of great significance. But many people talk about colonoscopy discoloration, why are many people afraid of colonoscopy?
1. The pain of colon cleansing
The colonoscopy needs to be cleaned before the colonoscopy, which is actually repeated diarrhea, emptying all the feces in the intestines, until the clear water is pulled out. This process is indeed quite painful, running over and over again. The toilet, pulled until the legs are weak.
2. Fear of inspection
In the consciousness of many people, it is very painful to put a strange foreign object into the body, especially from the extremely sensitive anus, just by imagination, because of the fear of the unknown, it is very difficult Make up your mind to have a colonoscopy. And you need to take off your pants in front of strangers, which many people find very embarrassing.
Pain in inspection
During the examination, because the colon is relatively long and has several curves, the mirror is meandering in the intestines, and the intestines are stimulated and stretched, and there will indeed be some feeling of pain and discomfort .
An article published in The Lancet shows that a single flexible colonoscopy can reduce the incidence of bowel cancer by nearly 30% in the following 17 years. You must know that colon cancer usually takes about 10 years to develop from polyps and hyperplasia to advanced stage, and colonoscopy can help us detect polyps and hyperplasia early and prevent the occurrence of cancer in time. Therefore, no matter how big the psychological barrier is, healthy people over 45 years old are recommended to have a colonoscopy. If there are intestinal polyps, the colonoscopy should be repeated 1-2 years after clipping. Especially for people with a family history of gastrointestinal tumors, a history of other cancers, and intestinal polyps, regular colonoscopy should be performed.
At present, painless colonoscopy has been popularized everywhere. If you don’t want to suffer pain and avoid embarrassment, you can choose painless colonoscopy, but painless colonoscopy still requires adequate bowel preparation. Otherwise, the intestinal tract will not be cleaned cleanly and the field of vision will be blocked, which will seriously affect the observation of lesions during the examination.