After surgery people are worried about how big and terrible will have a scar on his stomach. Not everyone knows that inside the abdomen after surgery also may appear scars. This adhesions between the organs and the inner lining of the abdominal cavity (peritoneum).
Spikes, for example, can pull and twist the intestine. From this there is pain, and it may be bowel obstruction.
According to statistics, adhesions in the abdomen - a major cause of intestinal obstruction
In fact, adhesions are formed more than 90% of people after surgical operations on the abdomen. Usually they do not have problems.
Advance is impossible to evaluate the risk of the formation of adhesions. It all individually.
You can only reduce the effects and complications. Here are the most effective ways to:
Minimally invasive surgery
This laparoscopic surgery, when the stomach is not cut, and make a few punctures, which are administered through special tools.
There are several factors that trigger the formation of adhesions in conventional abdominal surgery:
- peritoneum cut over a large area;
- somewhere in the stomach may remain blood or a blood clot that is not washed out after the operation;
- internal organs literally dry up in the air because of the wide-open belly.
In none of this happens during laparoscopic surgery. Internal organs are not nobody pokes fingers, they do not dry, blood pours out less.
Do not delay surgery
If the stomach is something fester, it is better to fix it quickly. Typically, we are talking about appendicitis or diverticulitis. When something breaks sore, infection spreads to a larger area in the abdomen, and produces a lot of adhesions.
Do not delay seeking medical help, and if the surgeon offers operation, do not give up.
A liquid diet for a day
All people ever happen bloating. If postoperative adhesions formed, then during normal swelling may occur abdominal pain. It begins something like intestinal colic. If everything will go away, it will be a real intestinal obstruction, and would have to operate. After that there will be even more spikes. It's a vicious circle.
Some surgeons offer their patients after surgery do not panic on each colic, and one day sit on a liquid diet. This is usually enough, the gases moved and the pain stopped. If you just ran into the hospital, then with some probability they would have immediately operated.
You will need to watch your belly
When postoperative abdominal adhesions appear, they will remain there forever. Even after many years something can happen, and spikes will be felt.
In the stomach, even without repeated operations may appear adhesions. This occurs against the backdrop of what some inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn's disease or after radiotherapy for malignant neoplasm.
To prevent the rapid development of intestinal obstruction to people with adhesions in the abdomen will need all his life listening to the abdomen. If something somewhere sore or inflamed, they will have less time for inspection.
Most often adhesions formed after gynecological surgery
Over time, these adhesions in the abdomen may themselves increase. For some women, it can lead to infertility or ectopic pregnancy.
What I want to say
You need to listen to your stomach, but not to panic at the slightest pretext. If some idea what processes there can occur, it will be less likely to miss something important or hurt yourself.
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