Capsule endoscopy is a procedure that uses a tiny wireless camera to take pictures of your digestive tract. The camera sits inside a vitamin-sized capsule that you swallow. As the capsule travels through your digestive tract, the camera takes thousands of pictures that are transmitted to a recorder you wear on a belt around your waist or over your shoulder.

It helps to diagnose or treat:

1)Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding:- Capsule endoscopy can help find the cause of gastrointestinal bleeding.

2)Inflammatory bowel diseases:- It may find the areas of inflammation in the small intestine, Crohn's disease and other inflammatory bowel diseases.

3)Cancer:- It can identify tumors in the small intestine. Sometimes it is done in conjunction with CT enterography,which can indicate tumors within the small bowel wall.

4)Celiac disease:- Studies suggest that capsule endoscopy can detect intestinal changes associated with celiac disease — an immune reaction to eating gluten — and can help detect complications of the condition.

5)Polyps. People who have inherited polyposis syndromes that can cause polyps in the small intestine, such as Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, may occasionally have capsule endoscopy to screen for polyps.

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    In capsule endoscopy the capsule have to be taken which contain small camera, that camera can taken the images of internal organ and that image can be shown in the computer,that capsule can be thrown away or comes out with waste matter.
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