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Question
Hello doctor,
My grandmother is more than 70 years old this year. Four years ago, rectal cancer was removed and anal anastomosis treated, but now, she often has symptoms of bowel obstruction. Every time you go to bowel obstruction, you must go to the emergency room for water transfusion. So the doctor told me how to treat women with intestinal obstruction? Thank you doctor.
Anonymous customer
Answer
Answered by Master, Doctor Nguyen Ngoc Thang - Department of General Surgery, Vinmec Danang International General Hospital.
Hello,
With the question “How are women treated for intestinal obstruction? ", the doctor would like to answer as follows:
Postoperative intestinal obstruction is still a dilemma for medicine, the cause is thought to be related to local factors (easy to create sticky scars, hypertrophic scars). history, ...), pathology of the previous surgery, abdominal condition and surgical location of the pathology of the previous surgery,... In general, all patients had surgery into the peritoneal cavity. All abdomens are at risk of intestinal obstruction after surgery, the rate of laparoscopic surgery is lower than that of open surgery. Common symptoms of intestinal obstruction are abdominal pain in each muscle, bowel obstruction, abdominal distension, vomiting due to obstruction causing stagnation of digestive juices and food.
Treatment of intestinal obstruction includes aggressive medical treatment at an early stage, placing a nasogastric tube to reduce intestinal pressure, using antibiotics to fight infections, correcting systemic disorders with drugs, fasting complete and parenteral nutrition, if medical therapy fails after 24 hours, usually the patient must undergo surgical intervention to remove intestinal adhesions and reestablish gastrointestinal circulation. Another feature is that the more surgeries, the higher the risk of intestinal adhesions after surgery. You should take her to a hospital specializing in Gastroenterology when bowel obstruction occurs.
If you still have questions about female bowel obstruction, you can take her to a hospital of Vinmec Health System for further examination and advice. Thank you for trusting and sending questions to Vinmec. Wishing you lots of health.
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