Capsule endoscopy is a procedure that uses a tiny wireless camera to take pictures of your digestive tract. A capsule endoscopy camera sits inside a vitamin-size capsule 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.
Capsule endoscopy helps doctors see inside your small intestine - an area that isn't easily reached with more-traditional endoscopy procedures.
Dr Jacques Badenhorst is a specialist gastroenterologist who practises from Suite 1409 at the Netcare Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital on Cape Town's Foreshore, on the corner of DF Malan Street and Rua Bartholemeu Dias Plain.
Address: 1409, Netcare Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital, Cnr D.F. Malan Street and Rua Bartholemeu Dias Plain, Foreshore, Cape Town, 8001
Tel: +27 (0)21 023 0723
Fax: +27 021 556 0220
Email: gicapetown@gmail.com