What is Diverticulitis?
9. Medication
How diverticulitis is treated will depend largely on how severe the condition is. Treatment will often involve antibiotics, but they are not always deemed necessary. Instead, the patient is often advised to eat a liquid diet to try and give the condition an opportunity to heal on its own.
If the condition is more severe, then stronger antibiotics are likely to be used, and they may be administered intravenously. This is likely to mean having the patient stay in hospital so the antibiotics can be delivered through a saline drip. Medication is all that is needed in the majority of cases.
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