| Bile is a substance made in the liver and | | | | other diseases such as: kidney stones, back |
| stored in the gallbladder which helps the | | | | problems, pneumonia, gastric ulcer, heart |
| digestion of fat. | | | | pains. The attack is triggered by fatty foods |
| | | | and can last for two to three hours, after it |
| Where is the gallbladder situated? | | | | comes to normal. |
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| The gallbladder is situated underside of the | | | | Acute cholecystitis (acute inflammation or |
| liver and releases bile after every meal | | | | infection of the gall bladder) is a condition |
| especially the fatty ones. | | | | manifested with pain and tenderness under the |
| | | | ribs on the right side, temperature lasting |
| Gallbladder disease affects mostly women. | | | | more than twelve hours. The pain is getting |
| | | | worse when moving and coughing. There may be |
| The symptoms are pain of different intensity, | | | | gallstones or only the infection. It is |
| jaundice, nausea and fever. Gallbladder | | | | treated with antibiotics and in urgent cases |
| disease appears when solid stones are formed | | | | emergency surgery is required to remove the |
| in the gallbladder from cholesterol, bile | | | | gallbladder. |
| salts and calcium, they are of different | | | | |
| sizes-gallstones, they are caused by | | | | Jaundice (yellow discoloration of the skin |
| cholesterol in high quantities which forms | | | | and whites of eyes) |
| crystals. | | | | |
| | | | Appears when the flow of bile from the liver |
| What are gallstones? | | | | is obstructed. |
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| Gallstones appear in people of all ages and | | | | Fever and other serious symptoms are |
| the possibility of developing increases with | | | | suggestive for the infection through the bile |
| age, obese people, Chrone's disease and | | | | duct system. Urine is coloured in dark, the |
| ulcerative colitis, people with high | | | | skin and eyes are coloured in yellow and the |
| cholesterol level in the blood, women that | | | | skin becomes itchy. There may also appear |
| follow contraceptive medication and those | | | | similar symptoms as in cholecystitis. |
| with antecents of gallstones are more | | | | |
| susceptible to develop gallbladder disease. | | | | These symptoms may appear all or only some of |
| | | | them, but at least one will manifest. |
| Patients may manifest no symptom at all, but | | | | |
| when they do is due to chronic cholecystitis | | | | Painful attacks are to be treated with |
| (biliary colic) which is a cronic inflamation | | | | painkillers. Keeping a low fat diet and |
| of the gallbladder manifested with pains in | | | | placing something warm on the pain spot are |
| the upper abdomen or in the right side below | | | | also helpful methods. If you have gallbladder |
| the ribs, pain which is worse and worse, the | | | | and no symptoms appear then no treatment is |
| pain may spread in the shoulder and sometimes | | | | required, there are also many alternative |
| is accompanied by nausea and vomiting. The | | | | treatments which can be applied, if they are |
| pain is difficult to be distinguished from | | | | not effective surgery is highly recommended. |