Patients with chronic appendicitis should keep a light diet and eat more fiber-rich foods to keep their stools smooth. Generally speaking, warm animal meat such as sheep, beef, and dog meat should be consumed in moderation, and it is not advisable to eat too much onions, ginger, garlic, and peppers. You can choose to eat foods that have the effect of clearing away heat, detoxifying and promoting dampness, such as mung beans, bean sprouts, bitter melon, etc.

Give liquid diet, such as milk, soy milk, rice soup, broth, etc. Or semi-liquid diet, such as porridge, soft noodles, etc. If you are planning to be hospitalized for surgery, you should avoid eating and drinking.

Acute appendicitis is the most common disease in surgical acute abdomen and belongs to the category of "intestinal carbuncle". Typical acute appendicitis clinical manifestations include abdominal pain that begins in the upper abdomen or around the umbilicus. Individual patients may experience full abdominal pain, persistent dull pain, or local persistent severe pain or rebound tenderness in the appendix; accompanied by nausea, vomiting, Loss of appetite, abdominal distension, diarrhea, constipation, fever, thirst, yellow urine, and increased white blood cells.

Traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation treatment

Stagnation type

[Clinical manifestations] Mild fever, distension and stuffiness in the right middle and lower abdomen, nausea and belching, loss of appetite, constipation or constipation , urine or yellow, slightly red tongue, thin white coating, stringy and tight pulse.

[Therapeutic Medicinal Diet]

1. Peach kernel and coix kernel porridge: 10 grams of peach kernel (peeled and tipped), 30 grams of coix kernel, 50 grams of japonica rice, add water and cook the porridge until it is very soft.

2． Celery and melon kernel soup: 30 grams of celery, 20 grams of winter melon kernels, 20 grams of lotus root joints, and 30 grams of wild chrysanthemum. Decoct in water and take twice a day.

Damp-heat type

[Clinical manifestations] Fever, aggravated abdominal pain, refusal to press, dry mouth with desire to drink, red lips, constipation, yellow and short urine, red tongue with thick coating Yellow and greasy, slippery and rapid pulse.

[Therapeutic Medicinal Diet]

1. Winter melon kernel and sophora flavescens soup: 15 grams of winter melon kernel, 30 grams of sophora flavescens, 10 grams of licorice, decoct in water, add appropriate amount of honey and drink.

2． Baijiangcao soup: 30g Baijiangcao, 20g Lonicera vine, 10g peach kernel, 30g coix seed, decoct in water and take 2-3 times a day.

3． Hedyotis diffusa and soybean grass soup: 30 grams of hedyotis diffusa and 20 grams of soybean grass, add water, mix in appropriate amount of honey and drink it.