Antibiotics and Appendicitis
Submitted by Sophie Gale on Sat, 09/29/2018 - 14:23
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After century of removing appendixes, docs find antibiotics can be enough
In a five-year follow-up, nearly two-thirds of patients never needed surgery.
ClareBroommaker
Wed, 10/03/2018 - 13:01
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Well, I'm surprised!
Well, I'm surprised! I sure would have been scared to be in the no-surgery study group!
P.S. The comment above was written before I read the article. Upon reading I also see that recovery time after antibiotics was half that of after surgery. However, little exclamation points were rising in my brain when I read that time off was 11 days for antibiotics. 22 days for surgery. Hoyu smokes, I've never heard of even a week off for an appendectomy in the US. But then, the study was done in Finland.