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What Should Be Done To Treat A Minor Appendix Symptom?

yes, please, I have a very light kind of syntoms for appendix and I wonder if it can be helped with a treatment so I dnt have to go surgery. I feel like a very ight cramp in my right side lower abdominal area, does not stay, its like a nerve pinch butnot hurting nd I need some advise what to do, or what not to eat. Thank you
Tue, 25 Mar 2014
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You can take a full course of an antibiotic like cefixime or ofloxacin with metronidazole for at least 5 days. Take plenty or oral fluids, liquid home-made diet, take bed rest. Many of the times this will settle the attack. Get an ultrasonography done before starting antibiotics.
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What Should Be Done To Treat A Minor Appendix Symptom?

HI. You can take a full course of an antibiotic like cefixime or ofloxacin with metronidazole for at least 5 days. Take plenty or oral fluids, liquid home-made diet, take bed rest. Many of the times this will settle the attack. Get an ultrasonography done before starting antibiotics.