What to do if you get appendicitis during your fifth month of pregnancy

The happiest thing for expectant mothers after pregnancy is to feel the baby growing in the belly day by day. When the belly gets bigger and bigger, you can feel the baby's movements, as if the baby is communicating with the mother. At this time, the mother's emotions will affect the baby, especially when she is sick. What should I do if I get appendicitis when I am five months pregnant? The pain of the attack is unbearable. Let’s talk about this issue below.

Acute appendicitis usually presents with an obvious tenderness point in the right lower abdomen, but during pregnancy, the uterus becomes larger and the appendix shifts, so the tenderness point also moves upward. When pregnant women suffer from appendicitis, abdominal wall tension and rebound pain are not obvious. Therefore, if a pregnant woman experiences gradually increasing lower abdominal pain accompanied by nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite and other symptoms, do not blindly take various painkillers, but go to the hospital for medical treatment in time.

If a pregnant woman has chronic appendicitis before pregnancy, the pressure of the uterus after pregnancy may cause the material in the appendix cavity to overflow, which may easily cause an acute attack.

Appendicitis in pregnant women is more complicated than that in ordinary people. If treatment is delayed, appendicitis perforation or peritonitis is likely to occur, which may cause miscarriage, premature birth, stillbirth, and even endanger the life of the pregnant woman. Therefore, an obstetrician and surgeon should consult and consider the specific situation comprehensively. Generally speaking, except for those with mild symptoms or those who cannot be diagnosed, who can use non-surgical treatments such as oral Chinese herbal medicine decoctions, other situations should be treated with surgery immediately. Regardless of whether it is non-surgical or surgical treatment, measures to preserve the fetus should be taken. At the same time, close attention should be paid to obstetric symptoms and signs. If the pregnancy is full-term at the time of surgery and the mother goes into labor on her own after the operation, she can be treated according to general obstetric principles, but the labor should be shortened as much as possible to avoid excessive fatigue of the mother.

As mentioned above, the most important thing for a woman with appendicitis in the fifth month of pregnancy is to seek medical attention in time. You must know that this is not the time to be hard, and certainly not the time to take painkillers indiscriminately. These behaviors will not only not help the pregnant woman, but will also affect the lives of the baby and the mother. Therefore, treatment while preserving the fetus is the correct choice.