- Flexible Endoscope.
One patient came to me in great distress with hiccup,pain in the abdomen and inability to stand. Apart from this ,patients present to a doctor with complains of vomiting of stale food some hours or days of taking food.There is loss of appetite ,weakness,malnutrition,hiccup and desire to induce vomiting to get relief from pain.
These are the cardinal symptoms of obstruction to passage of food from stomach called Pyloric obstruction/Duodenal stenosis.Causes are varied.Important common cause are development of stenosis after a benign duodenal or pyloric ulcer,a cancer obstructing the passage from stomach and a foreign body such as leaves or hair ball(eaten) seen in psychotics.After invent of stomach acid suppressing drugs these cases are seldom seen.But the patient in question was a road side vendor with irregular and bad eating habit.The patient said that he is in empty stomach .So to find out the cause in hope of some interesting findings the endoscope was put. (more…)
