Symptoms of appendicitis in children

summary

Acute appendicitis in children is a common acute abdomen in children, especially in children over 5 years old. The incidence rate is lower than that of adults, but the disease is more serious than adults. The complication rate of diffuse membranous inflammation and appendiceal perforation rate is high, even fatal, so we must pay attention to it. Tell us about the symptoms of appendicitis in children.

Symptoms of appendicitis in children

1. Appendicitis usually has abdominal pain first, then fever, and abdominal pain is persistent. Because of abdominal discomfort, the child is not willing to move the right lower limb. Walking, gait instability, claudication and other abnormal performance.

2. In case of abdominal pain, children like to lie on the right side and bend their legs slightly. Children rarely lie on the left side, because the position of the appendix is on the right. If they lie on the left side, the inflamed cecum will be affected and sagged, aggravating the pain.

3. There are tenderness points in the right lower abdomen, and some children have abdominal muscle tension. Because the child is unwilling to cooperate, it is better for the mother to hold or breast feed the child during the examination to distract the child's attention, and then touch the child's abdomen to observe whether the child has a painful expression. When the right lower abdomen is detected, the child will cry for pain or push it away with his hand; Also can wait for the child to sleep when checking, touch the pain, the child will wake up.

matters needing attention

In addition, appendicitis in girls may lead to tubal obstruction and peristalsis due to pelvic inflammation, which is a cause of infertility in adulthood. Therefore, once the girl was diagnosed with appendicitis, should be active surgical treatment, thoroughly clean up the peritoneal effusion, try not to let the attachment adhesion, so as not to lead to future infertility.