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Suggest Remedy For Stomach Pain Due To Enlarged Appendix

My 5 yr old son keeps complaining of his stomach hurting right around his belly button. When his stomach pain gets really severe he doubles over and complains of it also hurting on his right lower quadrant. He never goes without pain. He was recently in the hospital for the same thing and had a ct the ct scan showed an enlarged appendix measuring 7 mm. He is nauseated all the time has vomited and runs fever periodically. The ct scan that was done a week before the last did not show an enlarged appendix. I am at my wits end trying to help my son should I take him to the er at a childrens hospital?
Mon, 23 Mar 2015
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Hi.
Thanks for choosing HCM.
I can understand your concern. Your son is getting frequent attacks of appendicitis. Usually acute attack gets relieved with antibiotics. But if he gets it frequently then he should undergo surgery. If untreated it may land up in appendicular perforation which can lead to multiple complications. So plan accordingly and get an elective appendectomy done instead of running in emergency surgery. Now a days this surgery is done by laproscopy approach . So its quiet a safe procedure.
Pl. consult a laptoscopy surgeon and take a definitive decision.
If you have any further doubts pl. feel free to ask.
Take care
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Suggest Remedy For Stomach Pain Due To Enlarged Appendix

Hi. Thanks for choosing HCM. I can understand your concern. Your son is getting frequent attacks of appendicitis. Usually acute attack gets relieved with antibiotics. But if he gets it frequently then he should undergo surgery. If untreated it may land up in appendicular perforation which can lead to multiple complications. So plan accordingly and get an elective appendectomy done instead of running in emergency surgery. Now a days this surgery is done by laproscopy approach . So its quiet a safe procedure. Pl. consult a laptoscopy surgeon and take a definitive decision. If you have any further doubts pl. feel free to ask. Take care