Capsule endoscopy is a procedure that takes pictures of your digestive tract using a tiny wireless camera. A capsule endoscopy camera is housed within a vitamin-sized capsule that you swallow. The camera takes thousands of pictures as the capsule travels through your digestive tract, which are transmitted to a recorder you wear on a belt around your waist.

Capsule Endoscopy may helps in :

• The most common reason small intestine for doing capsule endoscopy is to explore unexplained bleeding in the small intestine.
• Capsule endoscopy can reveal areas of inflammation in the small intestine.
• Capsule endoscopy can show tumors in the small intestine or other parts of the digestive tract.
• Capsule endoscopy is sometimes used in diagnosing and monitoring this immune reaction to eating gluten.