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A member asked:

Is it normal to experience chills and sweating several days after a routine laparoscopic appendectomy? otherwise i have no pain or fever.

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Dr. M. Hytham Beck answered

Specializes in Surgery

Yes but: Yes it is normal to have chills and sweating after this kind of surgery. It is the way the body absorbed and metabolized residual infection. But if keep persisting that is not normal . Ask your surgeon.

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Answered 1/16/2021

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