Alcohol induced peritonitis .
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Erm, well it means he's been massively drinking to excess.
If properly treated, typical cases of surgically correctable peritonitis (e.g., perforated peptic ulcer, appendicitis, and diverticulitis) have a mortality rate of about <10% in otherwise healthy patients, which rises to about 40% in the elderly, and/or in those with significant underlying illness, as well as in cases that present late (after 48 hours).
If untreated, generalised peritonitis is almost always fatal.
Well soovy is right, sort of. Peritonitis would suggest a perforation somewhere in the bowel, and carries a fairly high mortality, about 50% I believe.
Large amounts of alcohol could cause a perforation, but not before they've caused a ulcer as their method of causing the perforation.
Peritonitis is either usually chemical or infective, and usually starts where there is a perforation at which point the highly irritant stomach acids or bowel faecal matter enter the peritoneum (cavity of the abdomen) and cause generalised irritation.
But its a bit of a brave step to decide you know whats caused the perforation and link the two together. So I've never heard of the diagnosis above.
You can have alcoholic gastritis, or alcoholic hepatitis, but I've never heard of alcoholic peritonitis.
That must have been some weekend!
Large amounts of alcohol could cause a perforation, but not before they've caused a ulcer as their method of causing the perforation.
Peritonitis is either usually chemical or infective, and usually starts where there is a perforation at which point the highly irritant stomach acids or bowel faecal matter enter the peritoneum (cavity of the abdomen) and cause generalised irritation.
But its a bit of a brave step to decide you know whats caused the perforation and link the two together. So I've never heard of the diagnosis above.
You can have alcoholic gastritis, or alcoholic hepatitis, but I've never heard of alcoholic peritonitis.
That must have been some weekend!
I had peritonitis many years ago when I was 18. It wasn't alcohol induced though!
I was a fitness instructor and thought I had pulled a tummy muscle at first, so left it. Over the next 48 hours it got very bad and my father took me straight to Nuffield Hospital (didn't need codes back then) and they knew straight away what it was. They said if it was left another 12 hours, it would of been too late to save me. On opening me up, I had massive amounts of Gangrene.
So a week later I was back home, stitched up, only to be woken up in the early hours with green, smelly stuff coming out of my wound, it hadn't all been removed!
So for about 2 months, I had a nurse come daily and pack my wound, from the bottom to allow to heal from the bottom up, left an awful scar, but luckily easily hidden!
I was a fitness instructor and thought I had pulled a tummy muscle at first, so left it. Over the next 48 hours it got very bad and my father took me straight to Nuffield Hospital (didn't need codes back then) and they knew straight away what it was. They said if it was left another 12 hours, it would of been too late to save me. On opening me up, I had massive amounts of Gangrene.
So a week later I was back home, stitched up, only to be woken up in the early hours with green, smelly stuff coming out of my wound, it hadn't all been removed!
So for about 2 months, I had a nurse come daily and pack my wound, from the bottom to allow to heal from the bottom up, left an awful scar, but luckily easily hidden!
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