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