My mum has had adhesions for 5 years after major surgery to remove a
cancerous tumour from her appendix. She has been in a lot of pain and
has attacks where she is very sick. 3 weeks ago she had an attack which
got worse and worse and did not clear itself. Eventually she got
admitted to hospital and had to have an operation to clear an adhesion
which had wrapped itself round her large bowel and was causing an
obstruction. She also had an abcess under the adhesion. After surgery,
we hoped that all her problems would be over. However, in the last 10
days, she has had 2 adhesion attacks and has been admitted to hospital
each time. We are now wondering if it will continue like this and that
attacks will now be more frequent. Does anyone have information on how
diet (or anything) will help to reduce these attacks or if the latest
surgery will have worsened things (even though the surgeon used a
barrier gel). We are getting desperate.