I think I might have appendicitis?
I'm a 13yr old female and I've been expierencing really terrible stomach cramps but it's only on my right and I've also been really dizzy recently so I really don't want to eat anything and oddly I've had a really dodgy stomach so to speak plz help I'm really scared
Can you get appendicitis from holding in your poop?
No you cannot. Appendicitis is an infection which has nothing to do with bowel movements. However, you can get colitis which can hurt pretty bad, and hemorrhoids as well. But obviously if there is no bathroom you have to hold it you can't just poop on the floor.
How do you get apendicitis?
Firstly appendicitis is not an infectious disease The appendix becomes inflamed and can rupture if not removed. It's really just something that happens
How does the liver aid in digestion???
The liver aids in digestion mainly by producing bile. Bile allows you body to be able to digest fats.
What does pain in the right side of the abdomen mean? My right side really hurts right under my bottom rib.?
it sounds like gall stones...Steady pain in the upper abdomen that increases rapidly and lasts from 30 minutes to several hours. The pain may begin after you have a fatty meal, but may occur at other times such as at night. The pain starts in your upper-middle or upper-right abdomen and, on occasion, may shift to your right shoulder blade or back. After the pain subsides, you might have a mild aching or soreness in your upper abdomen that can last for up to a day or so. Gallbladder attacks tend to occur infrequently, weeks, months or even years apart. Daily abdominal pain is usually not a symptom of gallbladder disease. Nausea and vomiting may accompany a gallbladder attack. This happens when small gallstones escape the gallbladder and enter the duct leading from your liver and gallbladder to your small intestine, common bile duct. Gallstones occasionally enter the duct leading to your pancreas, if a stone blocks one of these ducts and you don't receive treatment it may be fatal. You'll likely have pain and sometimes fever due to inflammation at or near the site of the blockage. Other symptoms of bile duct obstruction include: Shaking chills with a high fever if an infection in the biliary system (cholangitis) develops as a result of the obstruction clay-colored stools Dark sometimes referred to as coffee-colored urine Yellowish color of the skin or whites of the eyes, jaundice Chronic indigestion. Symptoms of indigestion may include gas, bloating, nausea and sometimes abdominal pain. These symptoms may occur or be made worse after you eat foods high in fat content. But even if you have gallstones, they often aren't the cause of digestive problems. A number of other conditions, including GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) and peptic ulcers of the stomach or duodenum, also can cause chronic indigestion. you can have some or all these symptoms...
How long does it take food to reach your stomach?
It depends upon the type of a food you just swallowed. If it is liquid, like milk or soda, in 1-2 seconds it is in your stomach. If it is semisolid, like breakfast cereal of porridge ( cooked oats and milk), or yogurt with some cereal, it might be 4-6 second; but if it is more towards solid, like hamburger ( bun, cheese, meat, and other fixings) or a biscuits ( with sausage, egg, cheese), it can be as much as 7-8 seconds. These are just approximation.Once the food is in the stomach, it will go through processing ( grinding with stomach juices) and will take 2-4 hours ( depending upon texture of your food) to getout of stomach in the small intestine,In the Small intestine food will go through breakdown to simpler chemical components by chemicals secreted in the intestine and these simple components are absorbed through the wall in the blood stream. That happens in about 5 to 6 hours.In its third stop, unabsorbed food materials get inside large intestine ( colon). While waiting there, most water is absorbed through the wall ( with few more things). That can be about 12- 18 hours.Last stop is rectum, where everything not used are stored. May be a few hours, before they, as poop , are removed out of the body.The whole time . between your swallowing of food and removal its unused portions from the body can take 16 to 24 hours ( depeding upon the nature of your food, food habits and health of you gut).Just for the time from mouth to stomach: between 2 to 8 sec.
How does gas move through the digestive system?
Intestinal gas is composed of varying quantities of exogenous sources (air that is ingested through the nose and mouth) and endogenous sources (gas produced within the digestive tract). The exogenous gases are swallowed (aerophagia) when eating or drinking or during times of excessive salivation (as might occur when nauseated or as the result of gastroesophageal reflux disease). The endogenous gases are produced as a by-product of digesting certain types of food. Anything that causes food to be incompletely digested in the small intestine may cause flatulence when the material arrives in the large intestine due to fermentation, particularly if yeast organisms are present. Flatulence producing foods are typically high in polysaccharides (especially oligosaccharides such as inulin) and include beans, lentils, milk, onions, radishes, sweet potatoes, cheese, cashews, broccoli, cabbage, Jerusalem artichokes, oats, yeast in breads, etc. In beans, endogenous gases seem to arise from oligosaccharides, carbohydrates that are resistant to digestion. These pass through the upper intestine largely unchanged, and when they reach the lower intestine, bacteria feed on them, producing copious amounts of flatus.In the case of those with lactose intolerance, intestinal bacteria feeding on lactose can give rise to excessive gas production when milk or lactose-containing substances have been consumed. Flatus is brought to the rectum in the same peristalsis method as feces, causing a similar feeling of urgency and discomfort.