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It is not really appendicitis that is inflamed by appendicitis, but the small appendage that is on appendicitis.
Symptoms of Appendicitis
In the case of appendicitis, you usually have one or more of the following symptoms of appendicitis:
- You are in pain and are sore around the navel.
- You have pain in the lower right part of the stomach. You may also start to feel pain around the navel, but the pain will move down from the navel to the lower right part of the stomach.
- It hurts more and more, especially in the lower right part of the stomach.
- It hurts more when you move, cough or sneeze.
- You feel ill and have a poor appetite.
- You may vomit.
- You get a fever after a few days. Usually the fever is quite low.
Sometimes it can be difficult to understand that you have appendicitis because the symptoms of appendicitis are not always clear. It may also be difficult to recognize the symptoms at the onset of inflammation. Children may also have a stomach ache for other reasons.
Ruptured appendix
Appendicitis may burst due to inflammation. In adults, it can take up to three days from the first inconvenience. In children, it can go much faster, especially in children under seven years. Then it can take twelve hours from the first symptoms until appendicitis breaks down.
Broken appendicitis can sometimes cause peritonitis. It is most common in children under seven years and in people over 70 years. Symptoms of peritonitis are as follows:
- You have a lot of stomach aches.
- You have a fever over 39 degrees.
- You have a very hard time walking.
- You cannot relax in the abdominal muscles when you are in the toilet to poop.
When and where should I seek care
If you think you have appendicitis, contact a health care center or an emergency room immediately. If closed, seek care at an emergency room.
It can be difficult to assess stomach pain, especially in children who cannot tell themselves. Call medical help if you or the child need medical advice. Then you can get help assessing symptoms or help with where you can seek care.
If it’s in a hurry
Call helpline immediately if the symptoms of appendicitis come quickly and you become very poor.
Treatment of Appendicitis
Appendicitis is usually treated with surgery to remove appendicitis. You are usually operated on for a couple of hours after your doctor finds out that you have appendicitis. Most operatives for appendicitis have had symptoms for less than two days.
Broken appendicitis needs to be treated quickly. This is to prevent the peritoneum from becoming inflamed. You can also get antibiotics before surgery.
Operation with peephole technique or open surgery
You can be operated on either with a puncture or the surgeon may choose to open the abdomen, a so-called open surgery. It is most common for the surgeon to operate with the peephole technique. Pitch hole technology is also called laparoscopy.
During surgery, the surgeon examines appendicitis, and surgically removes the appendage if it is inflamed. The appendage is usually not removed unless it is infected. But sometimes, the surgeon can still remove a healthy appendix to send it for analysis.
The surgeon may need to open the abdomen, even though they have started operating with the peephole technique. It could be, for example, if the appendage is very inflamed or if it has grown firmly in the tissue of the appendix. In open surgery, the surgeon cuts an incision on the right side just below the navel. The surgeon always removes the appendage during open surgery.
An advantage of peephole technology is that the surgical wounds heal faster and that there will be fewer scars, compared to open surgery.
You are anesthetized during the operation
How long you have to wait for surgery depends, among other things, on when you last ate. You need to be anesthetized during the operation, and before anesthesia, you need to have an empty stomach. Therefore, you may have to wait a few hours before operating. During that time, you must not eat anything.
Surgery reduces the risk of complications
Appendicitis can heal by itself. But most often, doctors want to operate anyway, to avoid complications such as ruptured appendicitis and peritonitis.
After the surgery
You may stay in the hospital for a day after the operation, regardless of whether you have been operated with peephole or open surgery.
It can hurt to pee and poop, since the abdominal muscles may have difficulty relaxing after surgery. After two days you can shower, but you need to protect the operating wounds.
If you have surgery for broken appendicitis, you may need to make a return visit six to ten days after the operation. Otherwise, you usually do not need to make a return visit.
If you have been operated with peephole technology, you will usually be fully recovered after about a week. It usually takes longer if you have open surgery, and you may need to be sick for two to three weeks. How long you need to be on sick leave depends on how physically heavy your work is.
If you get worse again after surgery, contact your health care provider
If you have a fever over 38.5 degrees or if you experience a stomach ache after surgery, contact a health care center or an on-call clinic. If closed, seek care at an emergency room.
Treatment of appendicitis with antibiotics
Appendicitis can also be treated with antibiotics. This can be, for example, if you cannot be anesthetized for various reasons, or if there is a warbler at the appendage.
Treatment of appendicitis with antibiotics is almost as effective as surgery, and probably involves fewer complications such as wound infection and warts. But since appendicitis remains, there is a risk that it will become inflamed again. The risk is greatest for the next two years. If you get appendicitis again, the appendage is removed.
If you have had broken appendicitis, you can receive antibiotics both before and after the operation. It is to reduce the risk of peritonitis.
You may need to have the colon examined if you are older than 50, have had mild appendicitis and have been treated with antibiotics. This is to rule out that the inflammation was caused by a tumor in the large intestine.
Small risk of getting sick again
It is very uncommon to get appendicitis again if you have been operated on for appendicitis. But if the surgeon leaves an excessively long stump of the appendix, there is a risk that the stump will become inflamed again.
What is appendicitis?
In appendicitis, the small appendage to the appendicitis is inflamed, and not the appendicitis itself. The appendage is about a centimeter wide and ten centimeters long, about the size of a little finger. It sits in the appendix, which is the first part of the large intestine.
Broken appendicitis means that the appendage breaks due to inflammation. It is not the bowel that breaks, even though it is called so.
Another word that doctors can use for appendicitis is appendicitis.
Most common to get appendicitis when young
You can get appendicitis regardless of age, but most people who get sick are between ten and twenty years old.
It is unusual for children under two years to develop appendicitis. But if they get sick, appendicitis quickly becomes inflamed until it ruptures. This means that children often have broken appendicitis already when they come to a hospital.
What is the cause of appendicitis?
Something closes to the appendage
Appendicitis is often the result of something clogging the appendage, such as a hard piece of food. The reason why some people get appendicitis is not entirely certain, but often it is because something closes to the opening between the appendage and appendicitis. Then the pressure in the appendix increases. It can lead to the appendage being infected by viruses or bacteria, which causes the appendage to swell and where it is formed.
Sometimes the surgeon can find what is stuck in the aperture of the appendix. For example, it may be a hard snack that has not been broken down or a small chunk of hard poop. But usually, the surgeon does not find anything clogged, but only a thickened and inflamed appendicitis.
Appendicitis can also be caused by something else clogging the appendage, although it is unusual:
- A small bulge on the intestinal mucosa, so-called intestinal pocket.
- A form of growth in the mucous membrane, so-called polyp.
- A tumor, which means that cells have started to proliferate. Most tumors are not due to cancer.
May be confused with gynecological disorders
It may be difficult for a physician to distinguish between appendicitis and obstruction from the uterus or ovaries. Therefore, you may need to be examined by a gynecologist, to ensure that the inconvenience is not due to, for example, a pregnancy outside the uterus.
Investigations
When you come to a doctor you will start by telling you about your symptoms. Then the doctor feels on your stomach, and if it hurts the lower right part of the stomach.
The doctor may need to examine the rectum with his finger. If you have appendicitis it hurts more when the doctor pushes up and to the right, in the direction appendicitis lies.
Blood sample
You may have blood tests to see if you have an inflammation or infection, including a so-called CRP test. CRP tests are often referred to as the quick sink.
Ultrasound or computed tomography may be needed
If the doctor is unsure, you may need to be examined for ultrasound or computed tomography. But the studies may not show that you have appendicitis. However, the studies can show if it was formed anywhere in the appendix.
You can be admitted to the hospital for observation
You may need surgery if your doctor suspects you have appendicitis. But you can also stay in the hospital for observation if the doctor is unsure. Then you have to have blood tests and a doctor examines your stomach at regular intervals. It is to see how the symptoms develop.
If you stay in a hospital, you probably will not eat anything, should you become worse and need to be operated quickly. However, you get a drop in the blood.
Complications
It is uncommon to have complications following a bowel operation, but the risk increases if you have surgery for broken appendicitis. This is why you should be checked by a doctor six to ten days after the operation if you have broken appendicitis.
It does not matter if you have been operated with a peephole technique or with open surgery. The following complications may occur:
- The wound can become infected, even if you receive antibiotics.
- It can be gathered were inside the abdomen. The total amount was usually lost with antibiotic treatment of appendicitis or if the surgeon empties the product collection. They then use ultrasound to find the product collection.
- There is an increased risk of getting a so-called deep infection. It is treated for a few days with antibiotics.
If you have surgery for broken appendicitis, the risk increases slightly for sterility, as well as for the following diseases:
- volvulus
- ectopic pregnancy, that is, a pregnancy outside the uterus
- groin hernia on the right side.
Unusual with life-threatening complications
It is very rare to have life-threatening complications of appendicitis. It is mainly people over 80 who get these complications. The complications after surgery are then mainly:
- infection in the operating wound
- pneumonia
- urinary infection
- heart attack.
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