Typical symptoms of appendicitis?

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Speaking of acute appendicitis, many people must know the disease. Many of them are male patients, and there are fewer female patients. Many of them are caused by bad habits in life. Nowadays, many people are very irregular about diet. Many people like to smoke and drink now. A friend of mine has been living in the hospital these days, Because got appendicitis to open an operation, appendicitis this disease brings patient can have a lot of maladjustment, so the typical symptom of appendicitis? Let's talk about it.

Typical symptoms of appendicitis?

1. Abdominal pain is the most common symptom. Appendicitis abdominal pain is characterized by metastatic abdominal pain, that is, pain around the navel in the upper abdomen at the beginning, and abdominal pain is transferred to the right lower abdomen after a few hours or half a day. Most of them are persistent pain, and may have paroxysmal aggravation. Children often lie on their right legs and dare not walk straight. Babies often express abdominal pain by crying. Children often lie in bed and dare not move or groan.

2. Fever: generally, fever occurs within a few hours after the onset of the disease. With the development of the disease, the body temperature rises to 38-39 degrees or even higher. 3. Gastrointestinal symptoms: most of the children have loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting at the beginning of the disease, some children have or.

4. Tenderness in the right lower abdomen is a reliable sign of appendicitis. If there is muscle tension, resistance, then the diagnosis is more clear. Some appendicitis symptoms can not be typical, young people are more common, and because young children can not cooperate with the examination, easy to misdiagnose. For example, at the beginning, it was often thought to be enteritis. If at the same time some cough, pharyngeal congestion, easy to diagnose upper respiratory tract infection or tonsillitis. Young children's resistance is low, appendicitis is easy to cause peritonitis perforation. Therefore, all children with abdominal pain or crying for more than 2-3 hours should be treated in time to the hospital.

matters needing attention

In fact, chronic appendicitis can only be relieved by drugs, but can not be cured. Since it is chronic, there is a possibility of recurrence before cure, and the possibility of recurrence is very large, will be repeated attacks, otherwise it is not called chronic appendicitis. During pregnancy can also recur, can lead to gynecological pelvic inflammatory disease. Surgical treatment is the only way, and barium enema should be used for further diagnosis before operation.