In modern medical practice, gallbladder disease is common. Often this is due to a sedentary lifestyle, the use of low-quality food and bad habits. This leads to a slowdown of the gallbladder and the formation of suspended matter in it. What it is? In fact, this is an accumulation of bile.
At first, a person may not feel changes in his own body until the first symptoms appear.
First you need to understand the mechanism of suspension formation. The functioning of the gallbladder depends on the lifestyle of the person. The use of foods with high cholesterol, low physical activity, alcohol abuse - all this ultimately leads to a slowdown in the reduced function of the body. Bile begins to gradually thicken. Cholesterol crystals along with calcium and protein begin to stick together, forming a suspension. What it is? Such a process is otherwise called sludge syndrome.
Causes of thickening of bile
- Genetic predisposition.
- Age and gender. Women are more susceptible to this syndrome, which is associated with their special metabolism. After 40 years, the level of cholesterol in the blood rises, and the synthesis of bile acids decreases.
- Nutrition. Fatty and fried foods, as well as carbohydrates, worsen the tone of the muscles of the gallbladder, which increases cholesterol.
- Taking certain medications. Calcium preparations, oral contraceptives, antibiotics, statins, for example.
- Obesity or a sharp weight loss of more than 7-8 kg.
Symptoms
- Aching pains in the right hypochondrium, which become more pronounced after eating, especially oily and fried.
- Decreased appetite.
- Feeling nauseous.
- Heartburn.
- Vomiting after eating.
- Violation of intestinal robots (most often constipation, but their alternation with diarrhea is characteristic).
What is this suspension? What are its morphological species? It can be clots of bile or stones of different sizes (from a few millimeters to centimeters). Depending on the morphological type of suspension, treatment tactics will also change.
Diagnostics
To begin with, the doctor collects the information he needs from the patient’s life, his complaints, conducts an external examination and palpation of the abdominal cavity. After appoints basic tests. Blood biochemistry is needed to detect changes in the liver and the metabolic process in the body.
But the “gold standard” for diagnosing the disease is abdominal ultrasound. This will allow you to visualize what a suspension in the gall bladder is and to clarify its morphology.