Gallstones or gallstones or gallstones (English: Gallstone) is a gallstone disease in which stones accumulate in the gallbladder. In medical science it is known as Cholelithiasis
What is the gallbladder?
The gallbladder is an organ of the biliary system associated with the liver. Looks like a small pouch. It is located just below the right side of the liver. The bile released from the liver is temporarily stored in the gallbladder. Bile from the gallbladder is released again through the bile duct into the esophagus as needed for digestion. Increases the concentration of gallbladder bile. This bile helps us with digestion and other digestive functions.
- Gallbladder stones are one of the few common diseases of the gallbladder. Gallbladder infection (Cholecystitis) is responsible for gallstones in many cases.
Who has more gallstones?
Obese and overweight people are more likely to develop gallstones. Women have more of this tendency than men. Apart from this, the age of 40, birth control pills, dietary habits, consumption of excess fat etc. increase this risk. Remember, it can happen to children too. I have operated on two such people.
Gallbladder stone symptoms or how to understand the symptoms of gallstones
Gallbladder stones can be asymptomatic in about 80% of cases. In the rest:-
Severe pain in the upper right side of the abdomen, the pain can spread to the back and reach the right shoulder. This pain may start suddenly and subside after a while, or it may be a constant pain. Most patients experience this type of pain after eating heavy food, such as oily food.
- Vomiting or nausea may occur.
- There is usually a slight fever.
How to diagnose gallstones or this disease
Any gallbladder disease can be diagnosed with just one ultrasound. For example:
Gallbladder stones, *Gallbladder wall conditions, *Gallbladder pus, any gallstones and *Tumors or polyps etc. can be assessed very easily. Again, a common blood test (CBC) can tell if there is an infection in the gallbladder or not.
Remember, gallstones can cause problems
- Acute cholecystitis: acute inflammation of the gallbladder.
- Pus builds up in the gallbladder (empyema).
- Gallbladder gangrene or putrefaction or subsequent leakage of bile into the abdomen.
- Gallbladder stones move into the gallbladder (gallstones) which block the flow of bile, resulting in higher than normal levels of bilirubin in the blood and jaundice, pain. This type of jaundice is called obstructive jaundice.
- Acute Pancreatitis: Stones often travel down the bile duct into the ampulla of Vater in the duodenum where the bile duct opens and block the flow of bile and pancreatic secretions, causing the secretions to destroy pancreatic cells and cause acute inflammation.
- Gallbladder cancer: Gallbladder cancer is rare but about 95% of cases are associated with gallstones.
What is the treatment of gallstones?
In one word, throw away the gall bladder operation, how??
This operation can usually be done in two ways
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Gallbladder stones are removed through a laparoscope without cutting the abdomen like the traditional method. What are the benefits?? Currently this method is preferred. The patient can usually go home and participate in daily activities on the second day after surgery. Another is open cholecystectomy or gallbladder surgery. The problem with this is that there is pain in the incision site for a long time, and one has to stay in the hospital for 3/4 days.
Remember:
- About 95% of gallbladder cancer cases are due to stones.
- Acute pancreatitis or pancreatic infection is caused by this stone in 80% of cases in our country, which is the most complicated stomach infection.
- Stones do not dissolve in any medicine or homeopathy, the actual mechanism is in the picture below, if the stones are very small, they pass out by themselves through the bile duct, they do not dissolve in any medicine.
- Operation can now be done only if there is pain, and only by laparoscopy.
- Many people say that throwing the gallbladder causes terrible damage, in fact, it is completely wrong, the gallbladder has nothing to do with food digestion. Some people may have thin or soft stools for a few days, which gradually improves (Ref: Mayo clinic, USA).
