Flexible sigmoidoscopy

 This scan enables the health care provider to look the rectum and scale down a part of the colon (sigmoid colon) handiest. To have a bendy sigmoidoscopy, you can need to have a tender bowel convenient-out, most customarily with an enema. Before the test, you can also acquire a mild anaesthetic.



You will lie for your side while a skinny, flexible tube often called a sigmoidoscope is inserted gently into your anus and guided up by way of the bowel. The sigmoidoscope blows carbon dioxide or air into the bowel to inflate it somewhat and enable the health care provider to see the bowel wall further naturally. A mild and digicam on the tip of the sigmoidoscope exhibit up any unusual areas, and your medical professional can take tissue samples (biopsy).