How long it takes to heal from appendicitis surgery

The healing time for appendicitis surgery is 5-7 days. The reason for the difference in time is the difference in the surgical approach. In the past, appendicitis was usually performed as an open operation, and a simple right lower abdominal appendectomy would take about a week to remove the stitches, so the healing time would take a week. At present, due to the development of minimally invasive surgery, most appendicitis can be treated laparoscopically, and the most important feature of laparoscopy is that there is no surgical incision in the abdomen like the traditional surgery in the past, so the surgery is very traumatic and the postoperative recovery is very fast, and the patient can be discharged from the hospital in 5 days. However, if the appendicitis is perforated and leads to peritonitis, the incision during surgery may be a dissection incision, which is relatively more traumatic and the healing time after surgery will be longer.