Acute gastroenteritis generally refers to acute gastroenteritis, usually do not need to do gastroscopy, it is recommended that the patient can do blood routine, stool routine, pathogen examination and other tests.
Acute gastroenteritis is usually caused by bacterial or viral infection, usually patients do not need to do gastroscopy. At this time, patients need to do routine blood tests, usually can be based on routine blood neutrophil count, eosinophils and other test data to determine whether it is a bacterial infection, or other pathogen infection.
In addition, the patient can also do routine stool examination, the doctor will be based on the stool characteristics of the initial judgment of the cause of the disease. Generally viral infections cause acute gastroenteritis, patients will appear yellow watery stool, and there are no red blood cells and pus cells in the stool. If the patient has dilute watery stools, pus and blood stools, etc., it is mostly considered to be caused by bacterial infection.
Patients can also do fecal culture examination, can clarify the pathogen, if the patient has acute gastroenteritis, fecal culture results are generally positive.
Gastroscopy can not detect acute gastroenteritis, it is recommended that patients with acute gastroenteritis need to consult a doctor in a timely manner, the doctor will choose the appropriate way to check according to the patient’s condition.