A healthy lifestyle and proper nutrition will help protect the body from many diseases, everyone knows about it, but only a few follow! Often, patients themselves are to blame for serious diseases, including appendicitis, but even this is not as critical as the fact that they until the last ignore the first symptoms of their ailments, which they later greatly regret.
In medical practice, inflammation of the vermiform process of the intestine is no longer a rarity. Acute and incessant pain in the abdominal region can be a symptom of a non-unit disease, but most often the cause is appendicitis, which can be fatal if not timely removed.
Causes of Appendicitis in Men
Neither women nor men are insured against the disease, but the number of the latter is several times higher than the rest. Among them, most of the representatives of the stronger sex from 10 to 35 years. An exacerbation of the appendix belongs to the category of severe cases and requires immediate treatment to the medical center. The main reasons for this are most often:
- excessive consumption of harmful products;
- unhealthy habits that reduce immunity;
- chronic inflammation.
Under special control should be men exposed to:
- frequent constipation;
- heart disease;
- tuberculosis;
- infectious diseases;
- caries.
As a rule, specialists do not engage in predicting the inflammation of the appendix, so it is impossible to predict it. Patients coming with attacks, immediately undergo surgery.
Common symptoms of appendicitis
Symptoms of appendicitis may have some differences for each patient. Moreover, the chronic form of the disease is present in no more than 2% of people from the number of recorded cases. Signs indicating an inflammatory process are as follows:
- sharp pain;
- temperature rise;
- single vomiting;
- weakness;
- tachycardia;
- constipation.
Nature of pain
The resulting disease causes pain, which is localized in women during pregnancy under the costal bones on the right side. Children cannot give accurate characteristics of pain and complain that it covers the entire abdomen.
The location of the appendix is most often located in the right, lower abdomen, but there are fixed cases when it was located:
- in the pelvis;
- back of the rectum;
- next to the liver;
- front of the digestive organ;
- in the left lower abdomen.
Inflammation is sharp and increasing in nature, after which the pain for a while ceases, due to the death of tissues.
Note! In no case is it recommended to apply warming objects to the sore spot, as the heat process provokes the fastest development of inflammation, which is fraught with serious and even tragic consequences!
Signs of appendicitis in men
Pain in the period of inflammation is prolonged, if during the 6-hour period from the onset of indisposition all signs indicate appendicitis, then, most likely, surgery is required. During exacerbation in men, the following symptoms appear:
- he cannot change position due to increased pain;
- there is nausea, with vomiting usually does not exceed 3 times within an hour;
- his tongue is covered with white bloom;
- thirst is present;
- possibly diarrhea.
An exacerbation of appendicitis in adolescence does not differ from its course in adults. It is important that the process of inflammation occurs more rapidly, so the first suspicions require an immediate visit to the doctor.
How to check whether appendicitis is accurate?
It also happens that not always signs indicating inflammation of the appendix of the intestine are correct, the clinical manifestations may be mixed and indicate another disease. Correctly diagnose appendicitis can only be a doctor, but there are a number of actions that will more accurately help determine the disease.
- Put the patient on a flat surface and lightly press his palm on the inflamed area for 5 seconds, then abruptly remove the arm. If after this sensation of pain intensified, then the person should be hospitalized;
- If the victim coughs loudly, then as a result of the tension, a sharp pain will appear in the place of the diseased organ, which will make it easier to identify inflammation;
- During an exacerbation, the man becomes comfortable in a twisted posture lying on the right side, thus, turning over to the other side, the nature of the pain will increase.
Important! In no case can not strongly press on the inflamed area, as carelessness in carrying out these manipulations can lead to rupture of the appendix!
Diseases similar to symptomatology with appendicitis
Often, signs indicating appendicitis are not enough to make a definitive diagnosis, due to the fact that they are often similar to:
- right-sided pneumonia;
- urolithiasis and renal colic;
- peritonitis;
Pneumonia
Symptoms of inflammation of the appendix is similar to right-sided pneumonia, to determine the presence of the latter, possibly using X-ray, common manifestations are:
- rapid heart rate;
- malaise and weakness;
- chills and fever.
Urolithiasis disease
The disease is characterized by acute pain in the lumbar region, close to that which occurs during the period of inflammation of the appendix, if its location is located behind the abdominal region closer to the back. Similar signs can be considered:
- increased pain during movement:
- search for patients of comfortable posture, to reduce sensitivity.
To eliminate this disease are necessary:
- urine and blood tests;
- CT scan;
- Ultrasound.
Perforated gastric ulcer
The danger of peritonitis lies in the fact that the contents of the stomach enters the abdominal cavity, which causes severe intoxication, and if not provided in time, the patient is fatal. The clinical manifestations that appeared as a result are easily confused with appendicitis, they are as follows:
- acute pain in the navel and under the ribs on the right;
- palpitations;
- vomiting;
- temperature.
When to go to the doctor?
The disease does not go away by itself, it is surgically removed without fail. Therefore, when the first suspicions appear on him, you should immediately call an ambulance. You cannot take painkillers before the doctor arrives, since after pain subsides, it will be more difficult for the patient to describe and determine the nature of the pain.
As a rule, even an experienced specialist fails to establish an accurate diagnosis during the first examination, since medical practice has more than 100 types of symptoms of an inflamed organ.
Most often, the observation of the patient is carried out in the hospital, it is not recommended to be observed outside the hospital walls, since with a sharp deterioration the patient must immediately be on the operating table.
Do not be afraid, but in rare cases it happens that when all the indicative symptoms are present, the surgeon makes an incision and finds a healthy appendix, in this case often the cause is another unhealthy organ that requires surgical intervention.
Diagnosis and treatment
Early diagnosis of appendicitis minimizes the occurrence of serious consequences. The opinion of the majority of experienced specialists agreed that it is extremely difficult to recognize inflammation, even by its symptoms. The peak of the activity of the disease falls on the age category from 15 to 35 years.
However, neither babies nor older people are insured against it. Suspicion of the disease most often falls if:
- the patient has acute pain when walking, especially when attacking the right leg;
- a complete blood count shows a high white blood cell count;
- Ultrasound and x-rays of the abdominal cavity accurately diagnose inflammation.
If the fears are confirmed, the patient undergoes an appendectomy (removal of the intestinal process), which is the only treatment method. The procedure is performed under general anesthesia, and the postoperative period provides for mandatory bed rest for 12 hours, food intake at this time is also prohibited.
In some cases, the exacerbation proceeds in an unusual way, and timely surgical intervention increases the chances of saving lives!
Effects
Apingicitis pain subsidence indicates the dying off of nerve endings, which occurs in the second stage of its development. In the third stage, the pain grows with greater force, the temperature can be critically high, the patient has the constant presence of nausea.
The last stage provokes vomiting that does not stop and unbearable pain in the affected area, and the patient’s standing up can end up fainting. People who had to endure an appendix rupture spoke of feeling that a warm liquid was spilling over the abdomen.
Perforation in most cases leads to death, it is extremely difficult for the body to fight against severe intoxication. There is infection of the blood, which nourishes the vital organs. The treatment is made with the help of sorbents and antibiotics, it is extremely difficult to save a person in such a situation, besides the operation is contraindicated in case of rupture of the process.
Fortunately, the human body is designed so that it sends signals about the imminent danger, and if you do not ignore them, and go to the hospital immediately, then the most unpleasant effects of appendicitis can be avoided, practically without risking your own life!
In the next video, the surgeon tells about the symptoms of appendicitis.
