The most obvious symptoms of abdominal infection

Postoperative incision infection is a very common complication. The main treatment is drainage and dressing change. Clear infection can be controlled by one's own immunity, and systemic antibiotics can be used when necessary. Check whether there are symptoms of abdominal pain, fever, or abdominal muscle tension, and analyze whether abdominal infection or peritonitis has occurred. Also, healing of infection is a gradual process and there is no way to determine when it will be completely healed. A short, mild infection lasts only half a month, while a severe infection or infection with drug-resistant bacteria lasts relatively long. So let’s take a look at the situation of abdominal infection!

1. Abdominal infection

Abdominal infections include acute cholecystitis and biliary tract infection, bacterial liver abscess, acute peritonitis, and acute pancreatitis secondary to bacterial infection. It is usually a mixed infection with anaerobic bacteria such as Enterobacteriaceae, Enterococcus and Bacteroides.

2. Symptom Name

Abdominal infection

3. Causes

It is usually a mixed infection with anaerobic bacteria such as Enterobacteriaceae, Enterococcus and Bacteroides.

4. Diagnosis

Laparoscopic observation, serum C-reactive protein and B-ultrasound examination can be used for diagnosis.

5. Identification

Severe intra-abdominal infection refers to an intra-abdominal infection with a wide range of abdominal infections, a long duration, and combined with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS).

Type 3 peritonitis refers to persistent or recurrent abdominal infection after surgical and antibiotic treatment of primary and secondary peritonitis.

Laparoscopic observation, serum C-reactive protein and B-ultrasound examination can be used for diagnosis.

6. Principles of prevention and treatment

1. Before giving antimicrobial treatment, relevant specimens should be collected for culture as much as possible, and drug sensitivity tests should be performed after obtaining the pathogens as a basis for adjusting medication.

2. Start empirical treatment with antimicrobial drugs as early as possible. Empirical treatment requires the use of drugs that can cover aerobic bacteria such as intestinal Gram-negative bacilli and Enterococci, and anaerobic bacteria such as Bacteroides fragilis.

3. Acute pancreatitis itself is a chemical inflammation and there is no indication for the use of antibiotics; antibiotics are required when secondary bacterial infection occurs.

4. The drainage of the lesion site must be kept unobstructed. Patients with surgical indications should undergo surgical treatment, and specimens from the lesion should be collected during the operation for bacterial culture and drug sensitivity testing.

5. The drug needs to be administered intravenously for the initial treatment; it can be changed to oral or intramuscular administration after the condition improves.

7. Symptoms

1. The causes of abdominal infection may include cardiovascular disease, liver disease, kidney disease, malnutrition, etc. Due to the different causes of abdominal infection, all the causes of abdominal infection are different.

2. After a large amount of ascites is formed after abdominal infection, proteinuria may occur and the urine volume may decrease.

3. Patients with abdominal infection and ascites may also experience weakened or absent abdominal respiratory movements, accompanied by other symptoms, such as congestive heart failure, accompanied by palpitations, shortness of breath, cough, hemoptysis, and systemic edema.

4. Ascites is one of the common clinical symptoms. The formation mechanism of ascites is complex. Once formed, it is easy to cause abdominal infection and difficult to treat. Refractory ascites is one of the serious complications of late liver disease. Patients have poor quality of life and often die from hepatorenal syndrome, hepatic encephalopathy or ascites infection.