Conservative treatment of chronic appendicitis

Conservative treatment of chronic appendicitis focuses on infection control with antibiotics and symptomatic treatment. Chronic appendicitis is a chronic inflammatory lesion of the appendix left after the acute inflammation of appendicitis subsides. Its clinical manifestations are intermittent right lower abdominal pain, distension, pain location is relatively fixed; there may be dyspepsia, loss of appetite and other gastrointestinal symptoms; physical examination may be fixed pressure pain in the right lower abdomen. Chronic appendicitis can be acute attack. Chronic appendicitis requires elective surgery in principle after diagnosis. Conservative treatment is mainly the use of antibiotics to control infection, while symptomatic treatment. Chronic appendicitis can be treated with intravenous antibiotics, such as injectable penicillin, cefuroxime, levofloxacin, etc., and can be combined with anaerobic antibiotics, such as metronidazole, tinidazole, etc., if necessary. For other symptoms of chronic appendicitis, such as nausea, vomiting patients can use metoclopramide injection and other antiemetic drugs. Patients suffering from chronic appendicitis are advised to go to a regular hospital in time, and ask a professional doctor to evaluate the condition and determine the appropriate treatment plan.