What is the purpose of this ultrasound examination?
This non-invasive study allows you to assess the condition and work of organs located in the lower abdominal cavity. Most often, women are prescribed for examination:
- ovaries;
- Bladder;
- the uterus;
- Fallopian tubes;
- cervix.
It is also necessary to say that doctors use the transabdominal sensor not only for ultrasound of the pelvic organs, but also for monitoring the condition and development of the fetus during pregnancy.
How to prepare for the study?
When appointing this survey, doctors warn a woman about the need to comply with certain conditions.
So, in particular, 2-3 days before the procedure, the girl should exclude from her daily diet products that increase the formation of gases in the intestines (bread, legumes, vegetables, dairy and sour-milk products).
Immediately before the procedure, 1-1.5 hours before it is performed, the woman needs to fill the bladder. This is required for better visualization, and allows to assess the condition of the organs of the reproductive system. Therefore, if the study is conducted in the morning, the woman is advised not to urinate before the procedure. If ultrasound is done in the daytime, then for 30-60 minutes before it is necessary to drink 0.5-1 liter of ordinary, still water.
This kind of preparation for transabdominal ultrasound of the small pelvis is a prerequisite.
How is this manipulation performed?
Such a survey is almost always done by appointment. At the appointed time a woman comes to a medical institution. With her, she needs a towel.
Entering the office, the doctor writes down the woman's words with the woman's words: name, age, weight, whether there were pregnancies and how many, etc. After this, the woman is offered to lie down on the couch and bare the body to the waist.
The doctor applies a large amount of a special gel to the stomach, which acts as a conductor and makes it possible to obtain an image. Moving the sensor on the surface of the abdomen, the specialist captures the features of the structure of the examined organs: measures their size, pays attention to morphology and topology.
After the examination, a woman is given an opinion on the hands, indicating whether there are any deviations or not.