I want to check my bowel. What else can I do besides colonoscopy?

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In addition to colonoscopy, there are fecal occult blood examination, colon barium contrast, magnetic resonance imaging and other examinations.

I want to check my bowel. What else can I do besides colonoscopy?

1. Fecal occult blood examination

can determine whether there is gastrointestinal bleeding by detecting the presence of red blood cells in feces, and can screen for enteritis, tumors and other diseases.

2. colon barium contrast

patients drink liquid containing barium, and observe the morphology and position of the colon through X-ray examination, and can find out whether there are abnormalities in the intestinal tract, such as inflammation, polyps, etc.

I want to check my bowel. What else can I do besides colonoscopy?

3. Magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic resonance imaging can generate clearer intestinal imaging images, and can observe whether there are abnormalities in the morphology and structure of the colon.



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