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Gall Bladder – Diseases, Symptoms, Treatments

Monday, January 25th, 2010

First Gall Bladder Symptom-Jaundice the most obvious symptom

When the skin becomes jaundiced(yellow or orange)and the whites of the eye take a yellow colour as well there is most likely an issue with the gall bladder or the liver. Jaundice shows that the liver is not working by the book and canâ??t transform the old blood into bile or that there is a blockage in the gall bladder.

Second symptom is the pain

Pains can appear in the high abdomen or below the ribs on the right side they are rare once in a while. It may be accompanied by nausea and vomiting and may spread in the right shoulder, the attack of pain can be severe and frequent and may have different durations from minutes to hours. Pain in gall bladder may be confused with other types of pains in different diseases: kidney stones, gastric ulcer, heart pains, back problems. Attacks are triggered by chocolate, cheese or pastry and other fatty foods.

Third symptom are the gall stones

There may be silent stones of the being of which people donâ??t know and are found accidently from X-rays. These stones usually do not require treatment. Other symptoms are: abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, indigestion, fatty food intolerance, gas, biliary colic, belching, abdominal bloating.

Symptoms that require immediate attention and medical intervention are: fever, sweating, jaundice, persistent pain, chills, pale stools.

Fourth symptoms-gall bladder attack symptoms

May occur any time at night or after a fatty meal, attacks last for 1-2 hours, may cause nausea and vomiting and severe pain in the back between the shoulders. After a right attack occurs, subsequent attacks are more frequent.

Remember that the following are gall bladder attack symptom:

High abdominal pain, back pain, pain – between the shoulder blades, nausea, vomiting, steady severe pain that increases rapidly and lasts up to 40 minutes each 2-3 hours with nausea, vomiting, pain – between the shoulder blades.

During the night gall bladder attack symptoms follow after fatty meals and manifest with: colic, bleching, gas, indigestion, abdominal bloating, recurring intolerance of fatty foods. As a treatment: it is treated with antibiotics and in urgent cases emergency surgery is required to remove the gallbladder.

Painful attacks are to be treated with painkillers. Keeping a low stout diet and placing something warm on the pain spot are also helpful methods. Gallbladder disease affects mostly women. Those symptoms are not to be dismissed because they recommend if the state of health is changing and how is this happening.

It is vital to intervene with the treatment as soon as possible before becoming too late and perilous with its complications for the patientâ??s life.The treatment may be surgical or alternative treatment.

For more resources about gall bladder please review http://www.gall-bladder-guide.com/gall-bladder-removal.htm or even http://www.gall-bladder-guide.com/gall-bladder-symptoms.htm

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Gall Bladder and Its Factor Risks

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Among its factor risks we count: overweight, rapid weight loss, diabetes, treatment with birth control pills, females, age over 40, ethnicity, alchool consumption, heredity, high cholesterol and triglicerides, low calorie diets, immunosuppressive drugs, refined sugars and saturated fats, low diet in fibers, constipation, anemias, chrons disease. Other risks factors mentioned are: chronic heartburn, Atkins diet, use of antiacids.

Gall bladder problems and gallstones occur when sedentary life and an unhealthy diet of highly processed foods with fried foods, white flour, white sugar, hydrogenated mingle. The risk exists even if you eat or not stout foods because it may cause stasis and bile thickening. A study published in BMC Gastroenterology 2002 children are very sensible and the cases of gall bladder in children are rising.

Symptoms in gall bladder disease

Symptoms in gall bladder diseases are very much alike with symptoms in other diseases that’s why several tests are needed to determine exact the disease. Gas, bloating, burping, belching, tenderness even discomfort under the rib cage on the right side. Those symptoms are the common ones and they prevent an attack of gall bladder. Constipation and weight gain are also symptoms of gall bladder disease. An indigestion may be caused by the lack of bile to act on the stout substance from the meal. A stone could be blocking the flow of bile and the gall bladder is distended then it becomes inflammed and its content gets infected. The gall bladder could be dyskinetic and the stasis of bile could be in the liver with the formation of sludges and calculi.

Gall bladder attack symptoms may occur any time at night or after a fatty meal, attacks last for 1-2 hours, may cause nausea and vomiting and severe pain in the back between the shoulders. After a right attack occurs, subsequent attacks are more frequent. Pains can appear in the high abdomen or below the ribs on the right side they are rare, once in a while. It may be accompanied by nausea and vomiting and may spread in the right shoulder, the attack of pain can be severe and frequent and may have different durations from minutes to hours. Attacks are triggered by chocolate, cheese or pastry and other fatty foods.

Biliary dyskinesia meaning a disease of the gall bladder without the presence of gallstones, the gall bladder can’t empty its whole content, is a frequently disease in obese people. The problem could be with the sphincter of Oddi, the gall bladder’s muscles or a chronic inflammation. In this case the pain appears in the right high quadrant. If you are suffering of biliary dyskinesia please answer briefly those questions: Do you follow a treatment for acidity? Do you take many anti-acids?

How often do you feel indigestion, heartburn, acid reflux in a week? Are you constipated most of the time? You may list any other symptom that you consider it affects your digestion.

For more resources about gall bladder symptoms please review http://www.gall-bladder-guide.com/gall-bladder-pain.htm or even http://www.gall-bladder-guide.com/gall-bladder-removal.htm

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WORM EXTRACTION FROM BILE DUCTS

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009


quadrant for last 10 days. She sought many consultations and was agreed intravenous analgesics both (nonnarcortic and narcotic). Pain did not subside and she sought my consultation. Examination revealed her to be in agony with severe high abdominal pain. All-purpose physical examination was otherwise unremarkable. Abdominal examination revealed mild tenderness in right hypochondrium with doubtful Murphy’s sign. Urgent abdominal ultrasound showed a linear structure in bile ducts making slow …

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