Symptoms of appendicitis in the elderly?

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Appendicitis is a very common disease in our life, this disease is regardless of age, the elderly will also suffer from this disease. So what's the difference between elderly patients with appendicitis and young patients? What special performance will it have? Knowing these manifestations can also help you find the disease early and cure it as soon as possible. Next, let's take a look at the symptoms of appendicitis in the elderly?

Symptoms of appendicitis in the elderly?

The elderly have low reaction ability, no obvious abdominal pain and no metastatic characteristics. Since the abdominal muscles have atrophied, even if the appendix has been perforated, the peritoneal irritation sign is not obvious. Sometimes, after the formation of periappendiceal abscess, mass has appeared in the right lower abdomen, but it is not accompanied by acute inflammation. Clinically, it is similar to ileocecal malignant tumor.

The symptoms and signs were inconsistent with pathological changes. The symptoms and signs are often lighter than pathological changes. Abdominal pain is neither severe nor typical. Because of the slow response to pain, its performance can only be abdominal distension, nausea, sometimes difficult to differential diagnosis, easy to misdiagnose. Elderly patients with acute appendicitis often see a doctor late, most of them have gangrene perforation or abscess.

There are degenerative changes of blood vessels and lymphatic vessels in the elderly, thin appendix mucosa, fat infiltration and fibrosis of appendix tissue, as well as vascular sclerosis, the tissue blood supply is relatively reduced. So it is easy to have necrosis and perforation after appendicitis.

matters needing attention

Dietary taboo: 1. Avoid eating hard and indigestible food; Such as almonds, peanuts, screw meat; 2. Avoid spicy food; Such as pepper, pepper, pepper; 3. Avoid food that is easy to produce gas; Such as taro, soybean, sweet potato.