Can I leave the hospital after five days of appendicitis surgery?

Generally speaking, appendicitis surgery can be discharged from the hospital after 5 days, but the specific discharge time still varies from person to person. Appendicitis is a common general surgical disease in clinical practice nowadays, which is an inflammatory lesion of the appendix caused by various reasons, and its typical clinical manifestation is metastatic right lower abdominal pain. For people after traditional appendicitis surgery, they can be discharged from the hospital in about 5~7 days after surgery, but the patients have different conditions, different recovery status and different physique, so the specific discharge time is different. In the case of laparoscopic minimally invasive appendectomy, you can usually be discharged in 3 days after surgery. For young people with mild condition and good health, they can be discharged in about 5 days after the operation; while for patients with serious condition, appendiceal perforation, peritonitis, appendiceal abscess, or those with poor health, they need to prolong the time of discharge appropriately. After appendicitis surgery, people should follow the doctor’s instructions for follow-up anti-infection and other treatments, if there is no obvious abnormality, usually 5 days after surgery can be discharged.