Replied by Dud (The Woods, Wv, Usa) on 08/28/2011

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Appendicitis by John H. Tilden - Free eBook

EXCERPTs,

CHAPTER IX

"I have appendicitis; what shall I do to be saved?"

Don't eat anything until well. Use a stomach tube and wash out the stomach; then use a fountain syringe and wash out the bowels; take a hot bath as hot as can be borne, and stay in the tub until all the pain is gone, or as long as possible; then go to bed, put ice on the bowels and keep it on until the temperature is reduced to 101 degree F. , then apply hot applications or poultices and continue the poulticing until the bowels move, and the bowels will not move until the abscess breaks.

Use an enema every night as a routine, and drink all the water desired, when there is no nausea.

Don't manipulate the forming abscess, nor allow anyone else to do so.

If you are really in doubt about what you have, think over what I have written about strangulation or positive obstruction, and if you think you have it, send for the best physician you know and get his opinion of whether you have obstruction or not, but don't allow him to burst an abscess with his manipulations! For, my word for it, if he can't weigh symptoms and tell whether or not you have complete obstruction without punching holes in you with his bimanual manipulation, neither would he be able to do so after examining you.

I do not say this because I like to make it hard for doctors, but I prefer staying the heavy hand of the doctor to keeping still and allowing him unwittingly to kill his patient.

First of all wash the stomach out with a siphon tube, then see to it that nothing but water goes into the stomach until the bowels move.

I put my cases on a complete fast, give no drugs, apply ice to the region of the appendix, keep the feet warm, and keep the patient in an atmosphere of hope and belief in his recovery, and a recovery always follows. I prescribe an enema of warm water once or twice daily, getting all the water possible into the bowels.

These patients are so comfortable after the second or third day that it is hard to make them or their friends believe that they have appendicitis People are so afraid that they will starve to death if they have no food for a few days that they make haste to get put on a killing treatment rather than run any risk. This fear is absurd Physicians are largely to blame for this popular ear, for those who do not feed by mouth still have the idea that their patients must have nourishment, so they feed by rectum. This is also absurd. What the patient needs is rest, and the more complete the rest the quicker the recovery. Give the patient all the water he wants.

The bowels will move in fourteen to twenty eight days from the beginning of the attack. Then the fast can be broken by giving a glass of hot milk, which is to be chewed well, or given in the form of junket; this is to be repeated three times a day for a week, or give the milk twice a day and a plate of mutton broth for the third meal. I do not give solid food because there is a large abscess cavity opening into the bowels, and if solid food is given before it has time to close, it is liable to find its way into this cavity, thereby preventing healing, and bringing on a chronic condition that will ultimately end in death. The less food taken for one week after the discharge takes place, the better. Any rational individual should see that withholding food is the proper treatment. Milk should be thoroughly mixed with saliva or not taken at all. Remember that if milk is not taken with great deliberation, and great care given to thoroughly insalivate each sip, then it amounts to the same thing as eating solid food.

Milk is a solid food when taken into the stomach as a beverage or a drink like water.

In appendicitis all nature cries out for rest, and if it is given 99 out of every 100 cases will get well and there will be no suffering and no danger after the first seventy-two hours.

The ordinary physician sends for a surgeon, and if he is a victim of the surgical mania the patient must be operated upon at once, for if twelve or twenty-four hours are given, the conditions may clear up and an operation will be unnecessary. The majority of surgeons feel that they will forfeit their right to heaven if they do not cut at once. The consequence is that there are many patients operated upon who are as innocent of having the disease as the surgeon is innocent of a knowledge of a better plan of treatment.

Of course, the surgeon declares that pus should be let out by cutting into it, or it is liable to break into the peritoneal cavity and cause death This is positively not the truth, for when an abscess threatens, nature at once proceeds to throw a wall around in order to avoid accidents. All around the point of prospective abscesses, heavy walls of adhesions are built, and if nature is not interfered with, the abscess will break into the gut, because it is the point of least resistance, and it is also the point favored by gravity. The surgeons when they operate in these cases work exactly opposite to nature.

If these abscesses are allowed to open into the bowel and solid food is kept away from the patient, full and uncomplicated recovery will take place. If solid food is given too soon it is liable to find its way into the abscess cavity and cause a blind fistula, which may take on acute inflammation at any time. These cases then become chronic and are called recurring appendicitis. It is sound surgery, in dealing with abscesses, to find, if possible, the direction nature is taking to evacuate pus and be guided by this suggestion in evacuating a pus cavity.

In order to cure appendicitis you must remove the cause. Cutting off the appendix, opening an abscess, withholding food till the acute symptoms have passed; such treatment is not removing the cause. Nothing short of changing the eating habits of the patient will cure, so the surgeon who knows nothing about food and its action -- what part improper eating has to do with bringing on the disease -- will never be able to cure.

Operating for this disease will fall into disrepute in time, for there are already cases recurring and the second and third operation will be necessary among those who survived the first. There is not a scintilla of logical reasoning in defense of the operation. Because some get well after an operation is no proof that the operation was necessary; fortunately for the operator there is no way to prove that the case operated upon would have recovered without the operation. If the case be not complicated by bungling treatment an operation is uncalled for. If a case has been medicated and fed to death -- abused to the extent of causing a rupture into the peritoneal cavity-- surgery must be resorted to as the only hope.

If a case survive an operation the patient is no wiser than he was before, and knows nothing about avoiding another attack, for let it be said loud enough to be heard by all, and with no fear of successful contradiction, that if every child at birth should have the appendix removed there would not be one case less of appendicitis than there is with the appendix intact. Of course, technically there could be no appendicitis without an appendix, but the cecum would become inflamed just as readily.

No amount of forcing drugs given by the mouth can induce a movement from above the constriction, but a great amount of pain can be produced by attempting to force a passage. No one comprehending the true state of affairs would be foolhardy enough to try to force the bowels to move. The reader can readily imagine the great pain and danger liable to follow cathartic drugs, for they stimulate severe peristaltic contractions. The contractions drive the contents of the small intestine against the inflamed cut-off, but there it must stop. If the parts have become softened, which they do by the inflammation, there is danger of perforation and an escape of the contents of the bowels into the peritoneal cavity, after which diffuse peritonitis and death follow. Surgery can hardly hope to save such patients; in fact they usually die; this is why the surgeon recommends an early operation.

If all cases are to be so abused and if there were no better way to treat them I also should say, operate at once as soon as the disease is discovered; but I know from years of experience that there is a better way to care for these patients.

CHAPTER X

Allow me to repeat: As soon as a case is diagnosed the proper treatment is to stop all medicine and food, for they excite movement, and this should be avoided. Give nothing but water. Keep ice over the inflamed spot. Keep the patient quiet, end the feet warm. There is absolutely nothing to be done until the bowels move, which will take place in from fourteen to twenty-eight days. The patient will not starve to death, nor will there be any danger that the abscess will open anywhere except into the bowels. After the bowels move, one glass of hot milk is to be given three times a day, so there will be no danger of solid food finding its way into the cavity of the abscess.

To be safe I insist on a fluid diet for a week after the bowels move, and a light diet for two or three weeks more. Cases taken through in this way, and then instructed in never allowing the bowels to become loaded again, will not only make a good recovery, but there is no tendency for the disease to return if the patient is prudent. I say that there need not be a death from this disease if these suggestions are properly carried out. The cases that die every year are killed by food and medicine.

Surgery has gained its reputation in these cases because of the stupidity of the average physician and patient. Cases taken through in this way are comparatively comfortable; they may pretend to suffer from hunger, but it is principally imagination. If my plan were generally adopted the dread of this disease would disappear; surgeons would get left on some fat fees, and the undertaker would look glum after the fall crop.

There are a few laymen so willful and incorrigible that they can't be depended upon to follow instructions. They will break rules, be imprudent in eating, and in many ways disregard their own interests. Such cases should be sent to the surgeons as early as possible, before they have time to complicate their disease and make a complete recovery impossible; however, people with such temperaments usually find an early grave and they might as well go by the surgical route as any other.

Replied by Oscar (Syracuse, New York, Usa) on 08/29/2011

Replied by Carly (Seattle, Wa - Usa) on 08/29/2011

Just saying. Be careful.

Carly

Replied by Tommy (North York, On, Canada) on 08/29/2011

Appendicitis is actualy acused by the protozoa called Dientamoeba. Fragilis. You can see here in my forum that deals with protozoan infection that there is a published paper that talks about that here:

http://microscopiccreatures.lefora.com/2011/07/29/it-might-be-the-cause-of-appendicitis/

Blastocystis.hominis and Dientamoeba. fragilis as well as Giardia intestinalis are responsible for IBS and even to Crohn's disease.

Best regards,

Tommy

Replied by Oscar (Syracuse, New York, Usa) on 08/30/2011

Replied by Tommy (North York, On, Canada) on 08/30/2011

I'm a pharmacologist and a natural health consultant. I came accros the article that put the link between appendicitis and the infection with Dientamoeba. Fragilis. I don't have it but at least with the article I put before in my forum it shows clearly that Dientamoeba. Fragilis could be a cause of appendicitis. Dientamoeba. fragilis is treated with Humatin or 2g of secnidazol.

I'm into protozoan and parasitical infections and their link to IBS and Crohn's disease as well as other chronic digestive problems. Blastocystis. hominis for example has been shown to be responsible for IBS in Chinese and Mexican patients infected with this protozoa.

This articles give hope to people and let doctors know that these diseases might be treatable with the proper treatment.

Best regards,

Tommy

Replied by Abe (Ny) on 08/30/2011

Replied by Sue Ellen (Los Angeles, Ca) on 09/01/2011

Trying to treat appendicitis with home remedies is extremely dsangerous and treating a ruptured with anything but surgery is impossible.

My child nearly died from a ruptured apendix and as it was she had to have several sugeries and blood transfusion. Please do not put your loved ones through such horror, have the surgery.

Replied by Dud (From The Woods Of, Wv, Usa) on 09/06/2011

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How about to save $30,000 in hospital bills ? .... What do you do if you don't have $30,000 ?

how about to avoid weeks of recovering from surgery?

how about avoiding the risks of dying from the anethetics ? [1%?, 3%?]

How about for saving your own life until you can get to a hospital?

How about to keep alive the the expert knowlege that someone fought long and hard to obtain for a world of suffering humanity?

How about to save your god given appendix, whether or not some medical mafia knows it's function, or not?

Replied by Oscar (Syracuse, New York, Usa) on 09/08/2011

And there are dangers associated with such a surgery as you pointed out. Those dangers are vastly increased once the appendix ruptures. A ruptured appendix is the most common emergency room surgery there is....Oscar

Replied by Lily (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) on 09/08/2011

Replied by Kathleen (Charlotte, Nc) on 11/15/2011

This is also why supporting "cure for cancer" organizations is a mute point. Read about Essiac, go to www.knowthecause.com and www.cancerisafungus.com

Bottom line, with first sign of symptoms, juice fast (aloe vera is benficial for the colon), rest, enema's, castor oil w/flannel etc like the good Dr shares in his book with OBVIOUS experience and success to write about it. Also, I've found an excellent product here in the states at www.oxypowder.com. I'm not a rep or benefit at all from any of these recommendations. Just believe the body is more than able to heal itself IF we take care of it and spending time with the God of the Bible is a recommendation as well. Our lives are too busy filled with 'stuff' that causes our illness. Be well my friends... I recommend other books like What your Dr doesn't know about nutrition may be killing you, Death by Prescription and Let's stop the #1 killer in America Today all can be found by title on Amazon. Kudos to Dud from the woods :)

Replied by Kathleen (Charlotte, Nc) on 11/15/2011