Postoperative small bowel obstruction is well known complication of open and laproscopic surgery and its treatment is not well define. Usually conservative treatment will suffice in some patient but good number of patients requires surgery. Gastrograffin has role in diagnostic purpose for partial small bowel obstruction but it has some therapeutic effect also. We did study to know therapeutic effect  of gastrograffin on these patients. We found that patients in whom gastrograffin used to guide treatment along with patients improve clinically.