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Hi every one anybody know what a bowel scrape is and have you had one brother in law has to have one it would help him

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All I can think of is a biopsy (scraping) of the bowel lining to check for disease. Most likely done by colonscopy, that is a tube put into rectum. IF this is the case he would be given some anesthetic first.

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