What are the symptoms of appendicitis?

The pain of appendicitis is mostly on the right side of the abdomen.

Typical appendicitis has the following symptoms:

Pain in the right lower abdomen;

2. Nausea and vomiting;

3. Constipation or diarrhea;

4. Low fever;

5. Loss of appetite and bloating.

Appendicitis abdominal pain mostly begins in the upper abdomen, under xiphoid process or around navel. After about 6-8 hours, abdominal pain gradually moved down and finally fixed in the right lower abdomen. When coughing, sneezing or pressing, the right lower abdomen hurts. If the above symptoms appear, you should see a doctor immediately and don't take it lightly.

Some acute appendicitis is atypical. Because of the abnormal position of the appendix, such as high appendicitis is easily confused with acute cholecystitis, and the abdominal signs of posterior appendicitis are light, and pelvic appendicitis may have diarrhea symptoms; Or because of the special incidence of appendicitis, if the appendiceal process is blocked or distorted by foreign bodies, abdominal pain is located in the right lower abdomen at first, with no obvious transfer process, paroxysmal, and the abdominal signs are not obvious, much like urinary calculi or intestinal spasm. In addition, there are individual factors of patients: patients have different nerve types, pain thresholds and gastrointestinal reactions, and the elderly have poor reactions, and symptoms and signs often cannot reflect the actual severity of acute appendicitis; The child's appendix is relatively large, seeing a doctor late, and it is difficult to ask about the medical history; The appendix of pregnant women moves upward, outward or backward, the uterus is enlarged, and the abdominal physical examination is different from ordinary people.

Other symptoms of acute abdomen are similar to acute appendicitis, such as diverticulitis at the end of ileum, acute mesenteric lymphadenitis, and some gynecological diseases such as acute adnexitis, ovarian follicular rupture, torsion of ovarian cyst, etc. Smaller ulcer perforation, perforation closed quickly, a small amount of duodenal contents flowed to the right lower abdomen, and it also showed metastatic pain in the right lower abdomen, but the tenderness in the upper abdomen was not obvious. Some medical diseases, such as acute gastroenteritis, intestinal ascariasis and abdominal purpura, also have clinical manifestations similar to acute appendicitis.