“How do you treat appendicitis without surgery?”
I am a 24 year old male. I want to know how do you treat appendicitis without surgery?
7 Answers
Surgeonsurgeon
If you do not have a fecalith stool stone. You can try conservative management with antibiotics!!!
Not possible. Please don't delay, you don't want the appendix to rupture. You can die.
Antibiotics can delay surgery, but the treatment for appendicitis is removal.
Intravenous antibiotics can sometimes treat appendicitis or appendicitis that has ruptured. Surgery is the gold standard however and your surgeon will make that determination
Antibiotic (they do so in submarines).
I almost always recommend surgery for my patients. The alternative is 7-10 days of antibiotics, with a 1 in 3 chance it happens again in a month, or a 1 in 2 chance it happens again in 6 months.
In Europe, there are a series of studies that look at non-surgical management of appendicitis. The patients in these reports are carefully selected based on their medical condition at the time of diagnosis as well as the findings on imaging as it relates to the status of their appendix. Most surgeons in the United States would approach appendicitis in an adult with surgery as the first option for treatment.
