Lindsay to have her appendix removed

New York: Lindsay Lohan was to have surgery to remove her appendix, her publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, said on Thursday.

Zelnik declined to give details. However, he said in an e-mail that the 20-year-old actress was "having her appendix removed. She is resting comfortably."

Celebrity Web site TMZ reported Zelnik as saying Lohan wasn't feeling well on Wednesday and had gone to a doctor, who performed several tests and determined that she was suffering from appendicitis.

Doctors asked her to return to the hospital on Thursday to remove her appendix as a precaution, TMZ said.

Lohan, whose screen credits include Bobby, A Prairie Home Companion and Freaky Friday, was treated for several hours at a Los Angeles area hospital last July for overheating and dehydration after being overcome by the heat on the set of Georgia Rule.

She was treated at hospitals twice in January 2006 in London for a cut on her leg and in the Miami area for an asthma attack.

In 2005, she was hospitalised for exhaustion and lost a noticeable amount of weight.