At Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Aileen Hamilton wrote:
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>My mum has had adhesions for 5 years after major surgery to remove a
>cancerous tumour from her appendix. She has been in a lot of pain and
>has attacks where she is very sick. 3 weeks ago she had an attack which
>got worse and worse and did not clear itself. Eventually she got
>admitted to hospital and had to have an operation to clear an adhesion
>which had wrapped itself round her large bowel and was causing an
>obstruction. She also had an abcess under the adhesion. After surgery,
>we hoped that all her problems would be over. However, in the last 10
>days, she has had 2 adhesion attacks and has been admitted to hospital
>each time. We are now wondering if it will continue like this and that
>attacks will now be more frequent. Does anyone have information on how
>diet (or anything) will help to reduce these attacks or if the latest
>surgery will have worsened things (even though the surgeon used a
>barrier gel). We are getting desperate.