Diverticulitis, treatment of acute: Antibiotics are usually needed. Oral antibiotics are sufficient when symptoms are mild. Liquid or low fiber foods are advised during acute diverticulitis attacks. In severe diverticulitis with high fever and pain, patients are hospitalized and given intravenous antibiotics. Surgery is needed for persistent bowel obstruction or abscesses not responding to antibiotics.
Diverticulitis represents acute inflammation of the diverticular bearing portion of colon, likely caused by microscopic or macroscopic perforation of one or several ...
Diverticulitis, treatment of acute: Antibiotics are usually needed. Oral antibiotics are sufficient when symptoms are mild. Liquid or low fiber foods are advised during ...
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A low-fiber diet will be advised while in the midst of an acute attack, although the long-term treatment of diverticulitis includes a high-fiber diet.
Diverticulitis is a painful condition that usually manifests in the lower left abdominal region. Caused when diverticula, or pockets in the wall of the intestine ...