Cell-shaped proof or appendix is \u200b\u200ban ambiguous component of the digestive system. Some scientists call him atavism - a sign that lost their function in the process of evolution. Others argue that the authority plays an important, but to the end is not a fundamental role in the formation of immunity. In any case, the inflammatory process flowing in this body threatens serious complications, and sometimes, if the time is lost, and the fatal outcome. How to determine appendicitis at home - not everyone knows. But this is one of the most necessary skills on its own security.

Some people are so afraid of appendicitis, which suspected his symptoms in any, even very insignificant, ailments in the abdomen. Others, on the contrary, try not to notice inflammation until the occurrence of a critical state. Therefore, the ability to give yourself or a close person to help determine the degree of danger and take action should be each.

Features and causes of inflammation of appendix

Pain with appendicitis

The difficulty of self-forming diagnosis is that the authority can be located in different fields of peritonev.

• Most often, the process is localized just below and the right of the navel. There, during inflammation, pain arises.
• Sometimes appendix is \u200b\u200babove, where the liver is located, respectively, the unpleasant feelings are associated with it.
• The pain in too low the body can be confused with the inflammation of the ovaries in women or urinary tract in men.
• If the process is shifted to the spine, appendicitis "gives" to the lower back, sometimes in the groin.

Inflammation of appendix in kids

It is especially difficult to reveal what hurts. The organs in the abdominal cavity are still formed, they are constantly growing and somewhat displaced. Therefore, even a grazing child is difficult to explain his feelings. Adult best with the obvious ailment of the baby to consult a doctor.

How to determine the child's appendicitis, the specialist will decide in the hospital. However, children can be afraid that they are going to leave in the hospital, and deceive parents, saying that everything is in order, but there are no pain. It is impossible to succumb to such exhortations. The kid does not know anything about the course of the disease and does not understand what can die. In this case, the desire to be close to the second plan before the vital necessity.

Symptoms of appendicitis

• The main feature pointing to the inflamed process is pain. It can grow gradually or appear sharply. In most cases, these are stitching sensations that almost impossible to suffer. A person is trying to lie down in the position that will reduce his suffering. Especially dangerous when the pain disappears. It should be understood that the appendicitis does not pass by itself, but the disappearance of this symptom indicates the beginning of necrosis and the death of nerve endings.
• General malaise. It is difficult for a person to fulfill its usual duties, he wants to lie down, feels weakness.
• At appendicitis disappears.
• Nausea appears, in some cases vomiting, which does not bring sense of relief.
• The temperature rises, the chills occurs.
• The number of heart impacts reaches 90-100.
• The language appears white raids.

Diagnosis at home and self-diagnosis

Even if you know in the theory, as appendicitis hurts, it is important to make sure your fears or part with them. Every adult man is able to find out whether the process was inflated, and then take certain actions.

How to identify appendicitis yourself?

• Lay the sick on the back, on a flat surface.
• Follow the extreme lower edge to the right. Easily knock down slightly below the pillows of the fingers. Painful sensations indicate a submission. You can make the same manipulation with the resistant area on the left. If there is no pain, it only confirms concerns.
• Ask a person to show you the place where the most acute pain is localized. Press the middle and index fingers to this area. The pain should be stuck, and at the moment when you remove your hand, it will significantly increase.
• Another sign of appendicitis is an unpleasant feeling in the area of \u200b\u200bthe process when trying to pash.
• If you recommend a person to take a pose of an embryo on the right side, fading his legs and curled up with a temporary relief. Turning over and stretching his legs, he will feel worse.

If all the signs confirmed, the main thing is that it is necessary to make immediately - to cause ambulance. Only professional doctors in a hospital can help the patient.

However, even if, according to your calculations, appendicitis is not confirmed, will correctly send a person to the hospital. There is a considerable amount of diseases of digestive, reproductive organs, urinary tract, the symptoms of which is similar to the inflammation of a worm-like process. With cholecystitis, pancreatitis, ulcers of the stomach or duodenum, only professionals can help the diseases of the appendages.

Consequences and complications

The most serious state arising from appendicitis is peritonitis. This is a rupture of the shell of the process and the influence of its contents (pus and cartoons) into the abdominal cavity. In this case, the person can save only an emergency operation.

The symptoms of peritonitis:

• spread pain throughout the peritoneum;
• a sharp deterioration in the state of a person;
• increase the frequency of heart blows up to 120 per minute;
• visual changes: Earthy pallor, acceleration damn face, eye sea;
• restless patient's condition.

Upon explicit signs of camping a heart-shaped process, the patient cannot be moved independently. It is necessary to put it on a flat surface and call an ambulance.

Diagnosis and treatment in hospital

To make decisions about the method of disease therapy, the doctor needs to know exactly what is inflated and hurts in a patient. Even if a manual inspection indicates appendicitis, the doctor will appoint a number of analyzes and medical manipulations, which will refine the diagnosis.

• First, it is urine analysis. If a worm-shaped process is located next to the ureters, they can capture inflammation. This is manifested by an increase in the number of erythrocytes.
• Secondly, blood test is made. With any inflammation, the number of leukocytes is increasing.

However, even laboratory tests do not give a certain result and a clear picture, they only indicate that the body is not healthy.

More accurate diagnostic methods are an ultrasound study (ultrasound) and radiography. According to their results, it can be said about the following modifications in appendicitis:

• in the cavity of the blind intestine, liquid accumulated;
• swollen walls that are adjacent to a heart-shaped process;
• the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract is modified;
• twice enlarged in the volume of appendix, its walls became much thicker than in a healthy state.

In some cases, surgical diagnosis is used - laparoscopy. She reveals what type of appendicitis in the patient. In some cases, it is gangrene - eliminating cells, in others - phlegmon - the risk of influence the contents into the abdominal cavity. The only way to treat the illness is to remove the process surgical way.

It must be remembered that the inflammation of the appendix develops very quickly, especially in children. From the beginning of malaise before the occurrence of a critical state, several hours can pass. On time the actions taken relatives and relatives, and sometimes the patient himself - the guarantee of the prosperous outcome of appendicitis. Rectual attitude towards deterioration, manual inspection and feeling and, most importantly, the challenge of emergency medical care is the only correct ways to preserve the life and human health.