Gastro Physician
Gastroenterologist focuses on the digestive tract and the gallbladder, liver, bile ducts, and pancrease. A gastroenterologist is a doctor that deals in those fields.
When to see a gastroenterologist?
You might go to a gastroenterologist for health concerns with your:-
- Esophagus
- Stomach
- Liver
- Colon
- Rectum
- Pancrease
- Gas
- Bloating
- Nausea
- Crohn’s disease
- Ulcerative colitis
- Hepatitis
- Colon polyps
What does a gastroenterologist treat?
- Celiac disease
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- Diverticulitis
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
- Stomach ulcers
- Colorectal polyps
- Viral hepatitis
- Toxic hepatitis
- Fatty liver disease
- Cirrhosis
- Esophagitis
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Abdominal Tuberculosis
Tests and Procedures:
You may need a nonsurgical procedure like:-
- Endoscopy – where an instrument like scope is used to look inside the esophagus, stomach and small intestine.
- Colonoscopy – where an instrument like scope is inserted through the anus to examine the colon.
- Enteroscopy – where an instrument like scope is inserted to examine small intestine.
- Polypectomy – the removal of polyps during an endoscopy.
- ERCP – Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is a procedure to diagnose and treat problems in the liver, gallbladder, bile ducts and pancreas.