World scientists and doctors have long believed that the appendix is a useless organ for humans. In the United States, for some time, the appendix of the cecum was even mandatory removed to all babies along with the tonsils, which ultimately led to the defenselessness of such people from environmental influences, which made them sick more often and died faster than other Americans.
However, now researchers from the same America have proven once and for all that the appendix is vital for a person. Experts, by the way, suspected this before, when they began to notice that people with an "unnecessary" appendix cut out significantly lose their immunity, become practically disabled in comparison with those whose appendix was not cut out.
It turns out that the appendix acts as a kind of "storage", which contains a large number of important for humans microorganisms. These microbes are responsible for the normal functioning of the immune system, and therefore to lose the appendix means to remain without full immunity. In addition, it has been found that the appendix also performs digestive and endocrine functions. As you might guess, you should not expect good health after removing such an important organ. Moreover, American scientists admit that the role of the tonsils and the appendix is still not fully understood, perhaps they also perform many other functions that modern medicine has not even realized.
The danger in this case is only the inflammation in the appendix, which can lead to a well-known disease of the abdominal cavity called appendicitis, in the worst case it can lead to peritonitis. However, not every person is faced with such a problem, and for the vast majority of people this organ remains in place. If we draw an analogy, then often in order to preserve a person's life, an arm or a leg is taken away from him (in the case of gangrene, for example), but it never occurs to anyone to consider these organs unnecessary and remove them even in infancy …