Nancy Kemeny, MD Well it's not painful, but really it's the upper GI and small bowel follow through, so you have to take a lot of pictures to watch the dye go through the whole small bowel ...

Small-bowel follow-through (SBFT) barium contrast series ... surveillance modality in this patient population at high risk of gastrointestinal malignancies, without the cumulative radiation ...

The mucosa of the GI tract and, in particular, the small bowel are sensitive to NSAIDs. NSAIDs can cause several lesions that can be seen using VCE, such as mucosal breaks, erosions, petechiae ...