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What causes your appendix to suddenly get infected?
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Appendicitis: The appendix gets infected after a piece a stool, a so-called appendicolith, gets stuck within the opening of the appendix. This causes a blockage and the bacteria that lives in the bowel starts to overgrow. This causes the appendix to get inflamed and eventually infected.
Answered 3/26/2017
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