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