What are the signs and symptoms of diverticulitis?
Most people who have diverticulosis have no symptoms or very few of them. The condition, in fact, is usually discovered incidentally when they go in for tests for other types of intestinal problems. About 20 percent of the people affected with diverticulosis develop the symptoms associated with it. Some of the most common signs of diverticular disease are: bloating, diarrhea, constipation, and abdominal cramping. These symptoms are linked with the difficulty in passing stool through the left colon, affected by diverticular disease. However, when the condition worsens into diverticulitis, more serious complications like pus filled abscess forming, bleeding in the colon, obstruction in the colon, bacterial infection of the abdominal cavity due to rupturing of the colon, known as peritonitis, and bleeding within the colon can occur accompanied by nausea and vomiting. Tenderness and pain in the lower left side of the abdomen as well as fever are the usual symptoms of diverticulitis. Diarrh
