How to diagnose inflammatory bowel disease

Inflammatory bowel disease can be diagnosed by physical examination, endoscopy, laboratory examination, imaging examination, etc. 1. Physical examination The doctor can understand whether the patient has abdominal pain, tenderness and pain through abdominal palpation, which is helpful to preliminarily judge the severity of the disease. 2. Endoscopy colonoscopy can observe continuous changes in the intestinal wall. When there are obvious ulcers and erosions in the lesion site, it is considered ulcerative colitis. However, the intestinal wall is discontinuous, and most of them are Crohn's disease. The lesion site is limited to the small intestine. Enteroscopy can be used when it cannot be clearly identified by other methods. Because Crohn's disease also occurs in the esophagus, stomach and other parts, patients suspected of local lesions can undergo gastroscopy. 3, laboratory examination stool routine examination can understand the characteristics of stool, with or without blood, mucus and microscopic examination whether there are red blood cells, white blood cells, etc., can be used as an auxiliary diagnostic basis for inflammatory bowel disease. 4, imaging examination CT, magnetic resonance imaging examination can reflect the intestinal wall, help to determine the location of the lesion and whether there is stenosis in the intestinal tract. For patients who cannot be examined by endoscopy, gastrointestinal barium radiography can be used.