What causes pain in the right side of the abdomen in women?

Many times, the chances of women suffering from appendicitis are getting higher and higher. This is because in our daily lives, we do not pay attention to our bodies, and we are busy with work and taking care of the family, which often leads to serious diseases. However, if women have bloating and pain on the right side of their abdomen, they may have appendicitis. In the following article, let’s learn about how we should treat appendicitis!

Appendicitis is a common disease. Clinically, symptoms include right lower abdominal pain, fever, vomiting, and neutrophilia. Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix and is the most common abdominal surgical disease. The typical clinical manifestation of acute appendicitis is gradual onset of dull pain in the upper abdomen or around the umbilicus, which shifts to the right lower abdomen after a few hours.

It is often accompanied by loss of appetite, nausea or vomiting. In the early stage of the disease, except for low fever and fatigue, there are usually no obvious systemic symptoms. If acute appendicitis is not treated early, it may develop into appendicitis gangrene and perforation, complicated by localized or diffuse peritonitis. Acute appendicitis has a mortality rate of less than 1%, and the mortality rate after diffuse peritonitis occurs is 5~10%.

After non-surgical treatment or cure of acute appendicitis, hyperplasia and thickening of the fibrous tissue of the appendix wall, narrowing of the lumen and surrounding adhesions may be left behind. This is called chronic appendicitis, which can easily lead to another acute attack. The more attacks occur, the more serious the damage of chronic inflammation is. Acute attacks may occur repeatedly. When there is no attack, there are no symptoms or occasional mild pain in the right lower abdomen, so it is also called chronic recurrent appendicitis. If the patient has no history of acute appendicitis but complains of chronic right lower abdominal pain, it is not appropriate to easily diagnose it as chronic appendicitis and remove the appendix. Other ileocecal diseases should be excluded, such as tumors, tuberculosis, nonspecific appendicitis, Crohn's disease and mobile appendix, etc. Psychoneural factors should also be excluded, otherwise appendectomy will be difficult, and the symptoms may not be eliminated even if there are no other lesions.

In fact, appendicitis is an acute disease. If pain occurs, it must be treated actively. Appendicitis will not endanger life or cause death. As long as we treat it early, it will not cause too much harm and impact. Above we introduce what women should do if they have pain in the right abdomen.