Appendicitis can occur at any age, but is most common between 10 and 30 years. In these classic symptoms are abdominal pain, vomiting and fever. The pain usually starts in the middle of the abdomen, around the navel, but little later moves to the lower right, closest to the place where usually the appendix. Once the pain begins, a child with appendicitis usually have a little fever, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, and abdominal pain often starts before the latter.
As the disease progresses, the child may have pain when walking, move to the area or by pressing the abdomen, but often leave even the most intense of pressure and tends to sit still, often lying on one of the sides and with legs on the abdomen shrunk.
In younger children, in which appendicitis is less common, symptoms may be more difficult to identify, present, sometimes only the abdomen and vomiting distendido.Inicio of the page