How Do You Diagnose Gastroparesis?
Gastroparesis is delayed stomach emptying. The most common symptoms are heartburn, nauseousness, vomiting, weight loss and bloating. Some of these symptoms could also be symptoms of other conditions, so you need to have certain tests to figure out what is ailing you. The following will help you diagnose gastroparesis. Take gastric emptying studies. You will be given an egg sandwich to eat and then put on a monitor. They leave you there for an hour so they can see how fast it takes you to digest the egg sandwich. If you have gastroparesis, it should take longer for you to digest the sandwich than the normal person should. Schedule a gastroduodenal manometry. After inserting a tube into your stomach and small intestine, the technician monitors the contractions before and after you eat. The strength and frequency of the contractions is also monitored. This test is to rule out other problems and not available everywhere. Set up an upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy. The doctor can scan
