Stomach is a member of the digestive system in the body. The stomach is connected to the esophagus and the small intestine. It receives the food from the esophagus, which in turn digests it and then sends it to the small intestine. Food is digested in the stomach. In part, while in the small intestine digested completely, and the absorption of substances and nutrients in it.
The person may sometimes take toxic and harmful substances that cause him many health problems, stomach pains, and these substances must be removed quickly from the stomach, and may not be delayed in them, and may not be waiting for them to come out naturally by the device of output in the body; Because these toxins will not go out before it harms the body, and cause serious damage, as these toxins if delayed survival, will spread in the body, and may lead to the loss of the infected person. Human beings must quickly remove these substances from the stomach by the available therapeutic means; their delay may lead to serious consequences and many health problems.
These include: gastric lavage, gastric lavage, or stomach wash, a process in which the stomach is washed and cleaned with a quantity of water to remove toxic and harmful substances. The standard medical name for this operation is Gastric Lavage, also known as Stomach Pumping and Gastric Irrigation.
It is said that doctors have used this method to clean the stomach more than 200 years ago. This process is used to clean the stomach of toxins, or substances that may later become poisonous, where the person undergoes this process in the case of an overdose of a particular drug, in the case of some dangerous chemical compounds, or in the case of consuming a large amount of alcohol.
Gastric lavage is done by inserting a rubber tube into the stomach through the nose or mouth, and then pumping and suctioning a large amount of water or saline solution through the tube. This process continues until water is discharged through this tube.
Some side effects, or complications, may occur. Some of the infections may occur in the stomach, esophagus, or lung. This process may also cause a decrease in some mineral elements of the body, such as sodium, especially if this process is performed by water, not by saline solutions.