Gastroscopy requires fasting for 6~8 hours, so you can’t eat in the morning or at noon for afternoon gastroscopy.
Gastroscopy is one of the commonly used examination methods in gastroenterology, which is to put the gastroscope into the mouth and reach the stomach and duodenum through the esophagus, to observe whether there are edema, erosion, ulceration and other lesions in the mucosa of the esophagus, stomach, duodenum and other places.
Gastroscopy before the need for fasting and water fasting 6 to 8 hours, afternoon gastroscopy, the morning and noon usually can not eat, if the afternoon to do gastroscopy time is later, you can eat breakfast early, and to do gastroscopy time interval of about 6 to 8 hours can be, the specific morning after what time you can not eat, should depend on the time to do gastroscopy, can not make a generalization.
In addition, the day before the examination should maintain a light diet, try to eat little or no residue of fluid or semi-fluid food, such as millet porridge, rotten noodles, etc., avoid eating greasy and other difficult to digest food, or chili, mustard and other cold and spicy food.
For gastroscopy, patients should actively cooperate with doctors to prepare the gastrointestinal tract.