All the vital processes that take place inside the human body are the responsibility of the devices in it. The most important biological processes that take place within the body are digestion, which is the specialty of the digestive system. The task of the digestive system is digestion of food to convert it into smaller particles so that cells, tissues and other devices The body from converting it to energy, and benefit from it until it performs its tasks and its work to the fullest, and consists of the digestive system of several members and examples of stomach.
Stomach
Is a component of the digestive system, which follows the esophagus in the gastrointestinal tract, located in the upper part of the abdomen, and can be likened to the stomach as a muscle bag can be stretched to accommodate the food to come to digest and digestion, and then to exit the door of the doorman, To the twelfth, the first part of the small intestine.
The process of digestion in the stomach in two stages, the first is the process of mechanical digestion, in which the walls of the stomach pressure on food for 4 hours to crush and turn into small particles, and then begin the stage of chemical digestion, in which the stomach to secrete digestive enzymes, namely: Pepsin, and renin, on food to convert it into a semi-liquid substance, and then remove it into the twelve.
And sometimes the person may damage his digestive system, especially the stomach, by eating harmful and harmful substances, so that these substances cause a lot of human health problems, and caused him pain in the stomach, and these materials can not come out of the human body before damage, As it does not go out the natural means of output in the body, and delayed in the stomach leads to spread throughout the body, which results in serious consequences may lead to death, so must be expedited the output, through the means of treatment for this, Gastric lavage.
Gastric lavage
Gastric lavage is a process performed to clean the stomach and remove its contents, but it must be done before the passage of two hours on the treatment of toxic substances, to ensure that it does not reach the valve stomach; in the case of access to the valve stomach, the treatment here is taking the patient anti-toxic substances, disinfectants and solutions . Gastric lavage is performed by inserting a rubber tube from either the mouth or nose, and then delivering it to the stomach. A quantity of water or a liquid is then pumped through the tube to the stomach and cleaned. The fluid or water is then sucked through the tube To get out with the toxic substances in the stomach, and this process can be repeated several times until the stomach is completely clean.
The most susceptible to gastric lavage are those who have taken an overdose, or have taken a lot of alcohol, and sometimes the stomach is washed before starting operations, especially those related to the digestive system, to be cleaned before opening.