Adhesions after surgery

From: Aileen Hamilton (Aileen_Wylie@campbell-lee.co.uk)
Thu Apr 29 10:35:57 1999


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.

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