What are the nursing methods for acute suppurative appendicitis?

Acute suppurative appendicitis is a common acute inflammation in life and one of the most common diseases in clinical internal medicine. If you seek medical treatment in time, the disease can be cured quickly. However, sometimes patients do not pay enough attention to it and take some painkillers when pain occurs, which may delay the disease and cause more serious complications.

Acute appendicitis care is as follows:

1. Body position for acute appendicitis care: After the patient returns to the ward, he/she will be given appropriate body position according to different anesthesia. After blood pressure stabilizes, adopt a semi-recumbent position.

What are the nursing methods for acute appendicitis?

2. Diet for acute appendicitis care: Generally, patients with mild symptoms are required to fast on the day of surgery and eat liquid food on the first day after surgery. Do not eat too much sweets and milk to avoid abdominal distension. Generally, semi-liquid food can be taken on the second day after surgery, and normal food can be taken on the third to fourth day. Severely ill patients need to fast and receive intravenous drips, and can only take liquid food after the anus is exhausted.

3. Early mobilization in acute appendicitis care: Patients should be encouraged to get out of bed and move around early to promote recovery of intestinal motility and prevent intestinal adhesion. Patients with mild symptoms can get out of bed and move around on the day of surgery, while patients with severe symptoms should stay in bed and get out of bed and move around as soon as their condition stabilizes.

4. Close observation of the condition during acute appendicitis care: Postoperative complications should be discovered promptly and reported to the doctor for treatment.

① Incision infection in acute appendicitis care: It is the most common complication after appendicitis surgery, mostly caused by surgical contamination, retained foreign bodies, hematoma, poor drainage, etc. The infection site is mostly subcutaneous, but can also be extraperitoneal. medical. The symptoms include fever, local redness, swelling, distension, or throbbing pain in the incision 2 to 3 days after the operation. The treatment is to remove sutures, clean the wound, drain it, and change the dressing regularly until the wound heals.