Peritonitis recovery?

My brother was admitted to emergency room a week ago and had emergency appendix surgery. His appendix burst and he has peritonitis. It has been a week and he has been on massive IV antibiotics. He has not eaten in 6 days and today they inserted an NG tube which drained almost 5 liters from his very distended stomach. This is totally new to me and I want to make sure that this is normal. They are saying that with peritonitis it may take 2 weeks in the hospital and another 3 weeks of home recovery. His bowels are still not working well. Just wanted to see if there were any nurses or doctors out there who can tell me what the recoverty process is and if all the pain he is experiencing is normal. Also they kept him in the emergency room for 5 hours before they did anything, could this have caused more damage than necessary? thanks

he'll be OK, it seems like he is getting the adequate treatment so don't worry and keep been nice to him :)

Here's sources for information to help you be better informed.
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/ConsConditions...
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/p/peritoni...

Sorry to hear that your brother suffer from peritoitis.
peritonitis is a very sever illness due to bacterial infection spread to abd.cavity.The bacteria and toxi subsains(due to the infcetion) get in to the blood and develop socall sepsis.and disturt the whole body;s normal function.If not treat rightly or other complication develop it may kill.Be side massive iv antibiotic he must went through abd.surgery and other supportive treatment;.Abd.distension is due to lose muscle tone of the stomach due to sever infection or toxi substain.This distension of stomach is also very danger situation and need to treat.NG tube drainage is for reduct the presure.I hope that. he is strong enough to go through the serious ill stage and go to revover stage.The time stay in er is complete depend on the patient condition,the hospital cabable level;staff,lab,x-ray.

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