Enteritis includes infectious and non-infectious inflammation, such as gastroenteritis and inflammatory bowel disease caused by bacterial and viral infections, eosinophilic enteritis and so on. Enteritis can be diagnosed by blood test, fecal examination as well as enteroscopy and pathological examination, and it also needs the doctor to make a comprehensive judgment based on the patient’s medical history and physical examination.
1. Blood test: blood routine, blood gas analysis and blood biochemistry can determine whether there is infection and anemia in the body, and can also understand whether there is electrolyte disorder and acid-base balance imbalance in the patient, which can help in the diagnosis of enteritis.
2. Stool examination: routine stool can find out whether there are inflammatory cells and occult blood in the stool, and stool culture can find out whether there are bacterial infections.
3. Enteroscopy: enteroscopy can directly see the situation in the intestines, and can check whether there is inflammation, congestion, erosion, etc. in the intestines, which is very helpful for the examination of enteritis. At the same time, there are some special types of enteritis, such as eosinophilic enteritis need to be combined with pathological examination to confirm the diagnosis of its pathological type.
4. History and physical examination: Infectious enteritis usually has a history of unclean food or exposure to cold, usually with light pressure pain in the abdomen and obvious diarrhea, which may be accompanied by fever. Inflammatory bowel disease is often characterized by chronic and recurrent onset, which may be accompanied by oral ulcers, allergies and other immune system disease manifestations and signs.
If the patient’s symptoms of enteritis are severe, he or she should go to the hospital in a timely manner, and be given standardized treatment after the cause of the disease is clarified.