What Does Your Appendix Do?
Have You Ever Wondered...
- What does your appendix do?
- What is appendicitis?
- Can you live without your appendix?
Have you ever ceased to cogitate which of your body components is most consequential? First of all, you wouldn't be able to stop and cerebrate if you didn't have a brain. You wouldn't be alive without a heart pumping blood through your body or a set of lungs supplying your blood and heart with fresh oxygen.
The human body is a miraculous machine, and its many components collaborate seamlessly to make you the person you are. While some components of the body, such as the spleen, might seem less paramount than others, like the stomach, the truth is that each part of the body plays a unique role that's paramount.
Well, except for maybe one part of the body that customarily goes unnoticed unless it commences causing quandaries. Sitting at the junction of the diminutive and immensely colossal intestine, is a thin, ostensibly-useless tube that's about four inches long: your appendix.
Did you ken you have an appendix? It's okay if you didn't. Many people never ken or cerebrate about their appendix, because it doesn't appear to have any function at all.
For years, scientists and medicos have studied the appendix, hoping to learn why this short, thin tube sits in the lower right abdomen. Over the years, most experts have concluded that the appendix is simply a useless leftover from the long evolutionary past of humans.
It can cause quandaries, though. For reasons that are often obscure, the appendix can become swollen and infected, causing astringent abdominal pain. This condition, called appendicitis, requires surgery (kenned as an appendectomy) to abstract the infected appendix.
If the surgery does not transpire expeditiously enough, the infected appendix can rupture. If it ruptures, it can spread infection throughout the abdominal cavity, engendering a potentially life-threatening situation.
So what transpires if you have your appendix abstracted? Nothing! People go on living just fine without an appendix. This fact reinforced for years the view that the appendix accommodated no purport whatsoever.
More recently, however, some scientists have found evidence suggesting that the appendix may indeed have a role to play in certain situations. Researchers from Duke University Medical Centre now believe the appendix may accommodate as a storage room for good bacteria.
Their studies show that, following an illness involving rigorous diarrhea (such as cholera or dysentery), good bacteria stored in the appendix can repopulate the digestive tract. The reserve of good bacteria in the appendix efficaciously "reboots" the digestive system in these astringent cases where an illness wipes out all of the good bacteria compulsory for felicitous digestion.
Just because they may have found a purport for the appendix, researchers admonished that it's not a reason to keep the appendix around if appendicitis occurs. The peril of infection from appendicitis is far worse than the desideratum to maintain a storehouse of good digestive bacteria.
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