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What kind of pills or treatment can somebody get for meckel's diverticulum?

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Basically Surgery: With risks similar to appendicitis, when a meckel's is discovered it usually is surgically removed.

Answered 7/1/2015

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No pills: do surgery: This defect can lead the intestines to twist on themself & cut of their flow & blood supply, die & leak causing blood poisoning & death. It can also begin bleeding & that blood loss be deadlly. The best surgical out come comes from elective removal in a stable patient with decreasing success as an unstable emergency. It can be confirmed & reoved thru a laparoscope (tube) with minimal complications.

Answered 2/16/2012

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Surgery: If a meckel's is symptomatic then the only treatment is surgery. There is no pill or medicine that makes it go away.

Answered 3/26/2013

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