Probing of the gallbladder is a procedure that improves the process of bile secretion and eliminates its stagnation in the ducts. With regular performance (every 3-6 months), it contributes to weight loss. The people call this procedure "tubage."
Indications for
Probing is carried out only for people who are diagnosed with stagnation of bile. This pathology is detected through conventional ultrasound of the liver and gall bladder. As a rule, such patients complain of the constant presence of gravity in the right hypochondrium. Most of all, people are affected by this:
- there is sand in the gallbladder;
- there is excess weight.
Contraindications
Blind sounding of the gallbladder should not be performed with the following indications:
- Exacerbation of chronic diseases (bronchial asthma, cholecystitis, pancreatitis, etc.).
- The presence in the gall bladder of stones. This procedure can provoke their movement along the bile ducts. At the same time, the stones can simply get stuck, which in due time will lead to difficult consequences, the solution of which will only be the operation.
- Ulcerative colitis. With this disease, this procedure leads to bleeding in the intestines.
- Gastritis is also a disease in which the sensing of the gallbladder is contraindicated. In this case, this procedure provokes the appearance of a stomach ulcer.
- It is not recommended to resort to sounding in the case when a person is healthy and has no diseases, except stagnation of bile in the ducts. In this situation, the body itself copes with the task without any additional measures. The main condition is a mandatory breakfast, which provokes the removal of the so-called "night" bile.
What is the procedure?
The main essence of the sounding is considered to be an increase in the activity of the gallbladder, which will help get rid of stagnation of bile. The main assistants in this procedure are sorbitol and magnesia.
Probing the gallbladder requires careful preparation, which consists in following a special diet 3 days before the procedure. It is based on the intake of light and plant foods that contribute to the unloading of the body.
Probing is performed in the morning on an empty stomach, the patient should not get out of bed. You need to drink about a glass of warm still mineral water, in which 5 grams of sorbitol or magnesia is added. Then you need to lie on your side (right) and put a bottle filled with warm water or a heating pad on the liver area.
So it is worth lying for at least an hour. Then you need to drink warm water again, but with the addition of lemon. After 15 minutes you can eat a choleretic breakfast - a soft-boiled egg with a small piece of butter. Eating bread is not welcome.
How to understand that the procedure was a success?
If you have mild diarrhea within a few hours, you can safely say that the sounding was successful. Stagnant bile comes out with feces.