What does the appendix do?

Question

If someone has their pendix taken out then how come they have no disabilaty?

Answer 1

The appendix actually serves some function if you still have it, although it is harmless if removed. It contains a specialized fluid that prodcues antibodies for the rest of the body.
However, other organs of the body have a more important role of producing those antibodies, so if the appendix has to be removed, it is harmless and without consequence.
Not everyone who has an appendectomy is without disability, though. If the rupture is not caught in time and infection sets in or complications arise, there may be short or long-term complications tht include several things including peritonitis.

Answer 2

Evidence suggests that our evolutionary ancestors used their appendixes to digest tough food like tree bark, but we don't use ours in digestion now. Some scientists believe that the appendix will disappear from the human body.

Throughout medical history many possible functions for the appendix have been offered, examined, and refuted, including exocrine, endocrine, and neuromuscular functions. Today, a growing consensus of medical specialists holds that the most likely candidate for the function of the human appendix is as a part of the gastrointestinal immune system. Several reasonable arguments exist for suspecting that the appendix may have a function in immunity. Like the rest of the caecum in humans and other primates, the appendix is highly vascular, is lymphoid-rich, and produces immune system cells normally involved with the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT). Animal models, such as the rabbit and mouse, indicate that the appendix is involved in mammalian mucosal immune function, particularly the B and T lymphocyte immune response. Animal studies provide limited evidence that the appendix may function in proper development of the immune system in young juveniles.

Answer 3

Oh my gosh I'm so sorry!!! Someone in my English class had their appendix taken out too but nothing like a coma or pipes!! I'm pretty sure that she will make it, but 1) Brace yourself for whatever may occur 2) Pray (If that's what you do) 3) Ask parents, doctors, etc. I don't think that appendectomy is dangerous because we don't really know much about the appendix in the first place, but I hope she is okay!! D: *Prayers* With technology and medicine as advanced as it is now, she will probably make it. Best Wishes! :D -Robert :D

Answer 4

its attached to the bowel and even in the yr 2007 with all the medical research happening..they still dont know the true function of the appendix!!it has some sort of digestive function but nothing major

Answer 5

The appendix doesn't do anything at all, it's a nothing ogran thats thought to maybe store extra white blood cells. But thee person can function perfectly fine without it. I had mine taken out all it does it leave you down for a few weeks after the surgery to have it taken out

Answer 6

The appendix have no use what so ever.

Answer 7

its an attachment part of the body that we don't use really part of the indigestion system,although in monkeys it used to help digest nuts .I've mine removed years now and nothing much different happened.

oh being in monkeys and working helped them see that we had evolved from ape types

Answer 8

the appendix has absolutly no function i dont know why its in the body

Answer 9

It used to digest grass and the like and consequently is of no use.

Answer 10

it's actually attached to the bowel, i am not sure there is a function for it though.