Health Tips
Appendicitis
| Appendicitis | |
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The appendix is a wormlike extension of the cecum, and its average length is 8-10 cm (ranging from 2-20 cm). The appendix is a small pouch shaped like a small finger. It is on the right side of the abdomen, connected to the colon |
| Many people think that the appendix is an excess of body. When there is reason to abdominal surgery appendectomy is often cut off by the doctor. Fearing that the appendix becomes inflamed the appendicitis. | |
| The most common causes of severe acute abdominal pain | |
| worldwide often found in younger age not over 30 years, men and women have equal opportunity disease. | |
| The cause of appendicitis | |
| Food waste or a hard piece of stool (fecal stone) can block the opening of the cavity that runs the length of your appendix and Appendicitis may also follow an infection, such as a gastrointestinal viral infection, or it may result from other types of inflammation. | |
| Symptoms of Appendicitis | |
| Began to have abdominal pain, dull pain around the navel and cigarettes this may be a location is not clear. The pain may be intermittent or constant pain after about 6-10 hours, they will move to the right side of the abdomen. And it is more painful when moved. Walk or sneeze. There may also be fever, appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, a feeling which if left. Not treated in a timely manner will result in severe complications was the Rupture Appendix or Appendicle Abscess. | |
| Surgery to remove the appendix, which is called an appendectomy, is the standard treatment for appendicitis. If appendicitis is even suspected, doctors tend to err on the side of safety and quickly remove the appendix to avoid its rupture. If the appendix has formed an abscess, you may have two procedures: one to drain the abscess of pus and fluid, and a later one to remove the appendix | |
| So if you have abdominal pain without knowing what it is. Do not just eat painkillers should go for a medical examination before because eating painkillers to make medical diagnosis difficult, Obscured due to pain medication. Abdominal pain, especially if more than six consecutive hours should seek medical attention. Because most, if not as appendicitis. It is often a symptom of other serious always. | |