How many days in hospital for appendectomy surgery

Acute appendicitis requires immediate surgical treatment. Nowadays, the surgery for acute appendicitis is very small. The patient needs to stay in bed for a few hours after the operation. He can turn over appropriately. Generally, he can get up and move around 12 hours after the operation. This will help to regulate the gastrointestinal tract. Generally, he can stay in the hospital for 3 to 5 days and then be discharged to go home for recuperation and rest. Under normal circumstances, the hospitalization time will not exceed ten days. You must pay attention to some matters after the operation.

Things to note after surgery for acute appendicitis:

1. Do not use painkillers for abdominal pain without a clear diagnosis. Because pain relief masks the condition, it is easy to delay diagnosis and cause serious consequences. 2. After suffering from acute appendicitis, if home treatment is ineffective, go to the hospital immediately. 3. According to the current medical level and technical conditions, surgical treatment is more effective for acute appendicitis. Even after conservative treatment, it is easy to relapse. Therefore, surgical treatment is still the main treatment for acute appendicitis when conditions permit.

The dangers of appendicitis

1. If acute appendicitis is not treated early, appendicitis perforation and suppuration may occur, leading to serious complications such as diffuse peritonitis, with a high mortality rate. Survivors often suffer from intestinal obstruction due to intestinal adhesions, which causes great pain to the patients. 2. The typical clinical manifestation of acute appendicitis is gradual onset of dull pain in the upper abdomen or around the navel, which shifts to the right lower abdomen after a few hours. It is often accompanied by loss of appetite, nausea or vomiting. Acute appendicitis has a mortality rate of less than 1%, and the mortality rate after diffuse peritonitis occurs is 5-10%, which is very harmful. After non-surgical treatment or cure of acute appendicitis, hyperplasia and thickening of the fibrous tissue of the appendix wall, stenosis of the lumen and surrounding adhesions may remain. This is called chronic appendicitis, which can easily lead to another acute attack. 3. Because gastrointestinal activity temporarily stops after intestinal surgery. The food and water that enter the gastrointestinal tract cannot flow downward and accumulates in the stomach, causing abdominal distension. So you can't eat or drink after the operation. Wait until gastrointestinal activity resumes before eating. Coughing is a painful experience for patients after abdominal surgery. The intestine is immobile after surgery and the surgical wound is prone to adhesion. Therefore, patients should be encouraged to be more active. On the one hand, it can prevent intestinal adhesion, and on the other hand, it can also promote the recovery of gastrointestinal activity.