Are you speaking of peritonitis of the abdominal cavity from ascites?
There are many causes of peritonitis in liver disease patients but ascites is the most common reason. When the fluid in the abdomen gets infected for some reason then, they have to drain the fluid pronto and get the patient on antibiotics. If ascites continues to come back
(as it usually does) then there is always a possiblility of recurrence in the peritonitis problem but it doesn't automatically mean that it will always come back. My mother had peritonitis from a blood infection caused from bronchitis/pneumonia. Unfortunately, she didn't make it but that had a different cause than say peritonitis from infected ascites. Once again, there is no
"one size fits all" with cirrhosis so each patient will not always react the same as the other..........Hope this helps........
Hugs and prayers............CarolLentz

Hi had S.B.P about 8 years ago had the drainage and antibiotics
2 weeks in Hospital
Has not returned I quit Drinking and eating junk food

Right after this question was asked on this forum, I was listening to our local talk radio and heard that one of the regular hosts who has been off on sick leave for about 4 weeks, is actually in the hospital with abdominal peritonitis. I guess they gave him up for dead a couple of different times but were able to revive his vital signs each time and get him stable once again. He has not eaten in all this time and they say he may never be able to digest food regularly again. Maybe will always have a feeding tube. They do not know what brought on the peritonitis except I remember hearing him speak of having stomach ulcers at one point in time. I wonder if an ulcer perforated unbeknownst to him and caused the poison to spread into the abdominal cavity and eventually into the blood stream? Sounds plausible to me..........Anyway, this peritonitis is apparently nothing to be taken lightly and one should always be careful when they start feeling sick for no apparent reason and should seek out medical help ASAP. It could mean the difference between life and death. Hugs and prayers to all of you....CarolLentz

Mine was caused from cirrohsis. 16day's in the hospital. they put me on ciprofloxacn 750mg's 1 a day till transplant. I have read that there is a 70% chance it will return is this true.

Sorry that I can't give you the percentage of possibibility but I have also hard that there is a greater risk of a repeat once you have had it.

My Mother had peritonitis back in the early 1990's and almost died. She was one to put off going to the doctor until she couldn't put it off any longer.........as was the case that first time. Only that time, we got her to the hospital in time to save her life. She was told to never allow herself to get sick and "ignore" it again. We thought she had learned her lesson but, in 1995, she got sick again with bronchitis that went into pneumonia. We tried to get her to listen to reason and see the doctor but she put it off saying she was feeling better everyday. Well, you guessed it......she was not recovering but developing more and more infection that went into her major internal organs and then into the bloodstream and she didn't make it. I sat with her for 4 days and nights while they tried to keep her alive hoping the cocktail of antibiotics they were giving her would somehow bring her out of it again. But, that was not to be. The fluids they were giving her IV for the 104 degree fever were not going through the kidneys but were backing up in the tissue of her body and this 130 pound woman weighed almost 300 pounds the day she died.

I can't impress upon friends and family enough to never, never allow yourself to think that you can beat it yourself. Get immediate medical help. The worst that could happen is that you would turn out not to be as sick as you thought you might be, after all. What a blessing that would have been in the case of my Mom.

There isn't a day that I don't think of her and wonder what life would have been like to be able to share my now adult children and also my grandkids. She missed so much that she had spent a lifetime
looking forward to. So sad.

If my little story here makes the difference to only one person and causes that person to seek out help first and ask questions later.....then it was well worth sharing, painful as it is.
Hugs and prayers...............CarolLentz