Appendix Removal – What You Can Expect?

Appendix inflammation is one of the symptoms of complicated health situation that may lead to appendix surgery. It is also known as laparoscopic appendectomy. If you are confused about recovery after appendix surgery, you have to prepare for it before time. As long as your case is not complicated, the procedure is not so bad; hence, there is no need to afraid. However, one has to keep certain things in mind to come up with surgery pain.

Appendectomy is a biological term that is taken into use for surgical approach to remove the appendix from body. People know it with different names like appendicitis surgery or appendix surgery or appendectomy.

Appendix is a vestigial organ that is located at the lower right portion of abdomen and is does not perform any practical function in the body. When the appendix gets inflamed and causes pain, the ignorance may result in bruising inside the walls that may lead to serious infection and illness, sometimes, it is lethal too. Rarely, the vestigial organ scars up from infections and results in recurring pain. If you suffer from any symptoms, consult with a reputed surgeon and go for appendix surgery India to make your body disease-free. However, in some cases, appendix is found normal after removal.

Appendicitis is termed when the surgery is carried out in emergency condition to treat the swollen appendix. The reasons behind appendicitis can be many like hard mass of faeces resulting in swelling, insertion of foreign particle or bowel adhesion, infection, inflammation of lymphatic muscles due to viral infection. The common symptoms for appendix are pain, vomiting, nausea and constipation. The pain begins in the central abdomen and reached to right abdomen. Sometimes, these symptoms are not observable and need intensive investigation of the abdomen area.

Appendix surgery in India is either open appendectomy or laparoscopy. In the open procedure, the surgeon incises skin and abdominal layers to access the appendix. Laparoscopy appendectomy is done by making 3 incisions in the abdominal cavity; surgical instruments are inserted into them to fill the cavity with carbon-dioxide and separate visceral organs from the abdominal layer. If you have an infected appendix then it might be possible that laparoscopic surgery can turn into open surgery.

Appendix infection is the most prevalent complication that can happen in the appendix surgery. Reputed appendix may lead to abscess in intestinal cavity that can be drained out after the appendicitis surgery. Other important steps are-disinfection of gut cavity and administration of intravenous fluids. Wounds may also lead to common type of infections.

Make sure you have a health insurance before undergoing appendix surgery otherwise medicals bills may crush you. You can also visit The Surgery by Dr. Shirish Bhagvat. He is a well-known laparoscopic surgeon who is working in this field for 25 years. He is currently Professor of Surgery & Head of Surgical Unit at Grant Medical College, J.J. Group of Hospitals (since August 2002) which is the first and the oldest medical institution in Mumbai. You can visit there for best treatment.