Patient's question:
The child wants to carefully check if the stomach is chaotic. Besides an endoscopy, what other examination methods can be used? The child hasn't eaten for a long time and has stomach pain. The doctor recommended an endoscopy, but the child is too young. Is there a method that can be used without an endoscopy to know if the inside is chaotic?Doctor's answer:
The child often has stomach pain, and there is a possibility of Helicobacter pylori infection. You can do a detailed Helicobacter pylori test on the stool, or you can do a carbon 13 Helicobacter pylori test. It's painless. If the child is relatively thin, you can check for parasitic eggs in the stool. For children who frequently catch colds, an abdominal ultrasound can be done to check the mesenteric lymph nodes for inflammation. An ultrasound of the liver, gallbladder, spleen, and pancreas can be performed to check for abnormalities. These tests are all painless and cause minimal interference to the child.