The Anonymous Widower

Can Toddlers Get Uncomplicated Pancolonic Diverticular Disease?

I am asking this question, as I do wonder, if I’ve had the disease for many years, as I don’t feel any different now, to how I felt at 18, 30 or 50.

In my first couple of years of life, I was also a bad bed-wetter.

My mother cured me of this, by putting me in a small bed next to her’s and then getting me out of bed every time I woke. In the end her persistence paid off.

Since I’ve been diagnosed with uncomplicated pancolonic diverticular disease, I am certainly drinking a lot of fluids and gooing to the toilet a lot.

Although thankfully, I am not wetting the bed.

But, I do always sleep close to a toilet.

So I asked Google AI the question in the title of this post and received this answer in the form of this peer-reviewed paper, which was entitled Congenital Cecal Diverticulitis In A Pediatric Patient.

This is the abstract.

Diverticulitis in the pediatric population is a very rare cause of abdominal pain. When present in the cecum or ascending colon, it is often incorrectly diagnosed preoperatively as acute appendicitis. This is especially true in Western countries where right-sided diverticulitis is less common. Here we detail a case of a pediatric patient with complicated congenital cecal diverticulitis and review the literature on pertinent management. An extensive work up with imaging and endoscopy was completed and definitive surgical treatment with diverticulectomy an appendectomy was performed. As the incidence of diverticular disease in younger individuals increases, right sided diverticulitis is worthy of consideration on the differential diagnosis.

Note.

1. I don’t remember being in any pain, but I was less than three, as this happened before my sister was born, when I was only 21 months old.
2. I remember picking my sister up from hospital in my father’s Y-Type MG.
3. My eldest son had appendicitis diagnosed at ten, but they didn’t operate. So was it diverticulitis?
4. He wasn’t X-rayed or scanned.
5. Doctors always believed I had a disease, they couldn’t identify.
6. When I was identified as a coeliac at 50, I thought that was the problem.

But then as my now-retired GP said. “Whatever, I’ve got, doesn’t seem serious!”

December 23, 2025 - Posted by AnonW | Artificial Intelligence, Health | Coeliac/Gluten-Free, Diverticular Disease, Google AI, My Mother