Capsule endoscopy is a noninvasive diagnostic procedure to visualize the inside of your digestive tract. You swallow a capsule that contains a tiny camera, a transmitter and a light. As it passes through your stomach, intestines, colon and rectum, the capsule takes thousands of pictures and transmits them to a recorder that you wear outside of your body.
Once the equipment is ready, a nurse will activate the capsule and give you a sip of water to help swallow it. The capsule is about the size of a large vitamin pill, and is coated to make it easy to swallow.
You can go home after you swallow the capsule and perform most of your daily activities while wearing the electrodes or belt. You will not feel the capsule as it moves through your digestive tract. Be sure to:
If capsule endoscopy leads to a diagnosis, your gastroenterologist will talk to you about the treatment options. Depending on the condition, more procedures such as a biopsy or a colonoscopy may be needed.
While the capsule is in your body, stay away from any source of powerful electromagnetic fields, such as an MRI. An electromagnetic field may erase the data from the capsule and cause internal injury.
There are groups of people for whom capsule endoscopy may pose other risks, or capsule use has not been studied sufficiently in these groups. If any of the following apply to you, your doctor may recommend modifying the capsule endoscopy procedure or using a different diagnostic test.
A capsule endoscopy procedure involves swallowing a tiny camera that's about the size of a large vitamin pill. The capsule contains lights to light up the digestive system, a camera to take images and an antenna that sends those images to a recorder worn on a belt.
Capsule endoscopy is a procedure that uses a tiny wireless camera to take pictures of the organs in the body that food and liquids travel through. This is called the digestive tract. A capsule endoscopy camera sits inside a vitamin-sized capsule. After it's swallowed, the capsule travels through the digestive tract. The camera takes thousands of pictures that are sent to a recorder worn on a belt around the waist.
Capsule endoscopy shows inside the small intestine. This area isn't easily reached with other endoscopy procedures. Typical endoscopy involves passing a long, flexible tube equipped with a video camera down the throat or through the rectum.
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The risk is small. But it might be higher in people who have a condition that causes a narrow area, called a stricture, in the digestive tract. These conditions include a tumor, Crohn's disease or having had surgery in the area.
If you have belly pain or are at risk of a narrow area in your intestine, you might need a CT scan to look for the narrow area before using capsule endoscopy. Even if the CT scan shows no narrow area, there's still a small chance that the capsule could get stuck.
If the capsule hasn't passed in a bowel movement but isn't causing symptoms, your health care professional might give the capsule more time to leave your body. However, if a capsule causes symptoms, that might mean it's blocking the bowel. Then surgery or a regular endoscopy procedure can remove it, depending on where it's stuck.
Before your capsule endoscopy, a member of your health care team will give you steps to take to get ready. Be sure to follow the steps. If you don't prepare as told, the capsule endoscopy might have to be done at another time.
To help the camera get clear images of your digestive tract, you'll be asked to stop eating and drinking at least 12 hours before the procedure. You might be asked to take a laxative before your capsule endoscopy to clean out your small intestine. This can improve the pictures the capsule's camera takes.
Most often, you can go about your day after you swallow the camera capsule. But you'll likely be asked not to do hard exercise or heavy lifting. If you have an active job, ask a member of your health care team whether you can go back to work on the day of your capsule endoscopy.
On the day of your capsule endoscopy, your health care team will go over the procedure with you. You might be asked to remove your shirt so that sticky patches can be put on your belly. Each patch has wires that connect to a recorder. Some devices don't use the patches.
You wear the recorder on a special belt around your waist. The camera sends images to the patches on your belly. The patches feed the data to the recorder. The recorder collects and stores the images.
You then go about your day. You can drive. You might be able to go to work, depending on your job. A member of your health care team can tell you what you should not do. This might include hard activity, such as running and jumping.
The capsule endoscopy procedure is complete after eight hours or when you see the camera capsule in the toilet after a bowel movement, whichever comes first. Remove the patches and the recorder from your body, pack them in a bag and follow the steps you were given for returning the device. You can flush the camera capsule down the toilet.
Once the procedure is over, your body might rid itself of the camera capsule within hours or after several days. Each person's digestive system is different. If you don't see the capsule in the toilet within two weeks, contact a member of your health care team. You might need an X-ray to see if the capsule is still in your body.
The camera used in capsule endoscopy takes thousands of color photos as it passes through the digestive tract. The images are sent to a computer with special software. The computer then puts the images together to make a video. A member of your health care team watches the video to look for unusual areas within your digestive tract.
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