How Acute Appendicitis starts

Acute Appendicitis is estimated to affect about 0.2%(2:1,000) of any modern population in the world except perhaps the very rural communities who subsist mainly on vegetables.

Upon making the diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis essentially based on clinical impressions without much sophisticated modern tools, the surgeon would then request a consent from patient for surgery.

Quite often, patients will ask why and how one can get Acute Appendicitis.

It seems like a "random fluke" that someone would have a piece of their faecal matter stuck at the mouth of the appendix (see pic.) and initiate a process of inflammation and infection within the lumen of the appendix.