Gall bladder: symptoms of the disease - is everything always clear?

What treatment is effective if the gall bladder is inflamed ? Symptoms of the disease can be both pronounced and smooth. In any case, the patient urgently needs to contact a medical institution, as heart disease can be “masked” as biliary tract diseases.

Acute and chronic cholecystitis, angiocholitis, cholecystocholangitis, cholangiohepatitis - a number of inflammatory diseases of the gallbladder and biliary tract, accompanied by similar symptoms, such as acute pain in the right hypochondrium, nausea, sometimes vomiting, heartburn, unpleasant taste in the mouth.

Pallor and jaundice are also common signs that the gallbladder hurts. Symptoms of the disease are somewhat similar to symptoms of heart disease, for example, coronary artery disease.

It is the localization of pain that will help distinguish the disease of the biliary tract.

In both the first and second cases, pain can be observed in the sternum, “under the spoon”, but if the gall bladder is inflamed, the symptoms of the disease are as follows: intolerable pain is directed to the right, up and back, to the right shoulder region, to the right shoulder . Painful sensations are possible in the right half of the neck, pain can spread throughout the abdomen. Unpleasant sensations intensify with a deep breath, as well as if the patient lies on his left side.

Improper lifestyle, eating large amounts of fried, fatty foods, muffins, alcohol, irregular meals lead to the gall bladder becoming inflamed.

Symptoms, treatment may vary slightly depending on the neglect of the inflammatory process, the disease has developed in acute or chronic form, on its general course, on the patient’s concomitant diseases, on the patient’s lifestyle.

In any case, if the gall bladder hurts, the symptoms are obvious or smoothed out, a strict diet is useful for the patient: you need to abandon spicy, fried, fatty foods, flour products, eat more dairy products - yogurt, bifitat, you can eat low-fat cottage cheese, eggs, stewed and boiled vegetables, mucous porridge.

Not only stagnation of bile, but also stones can contribute to the fact that the gallbladder becomes inflamed. Symptoms of the disease (namely gallstone disease) - yellowness of the skin and sclera of the eyes, a disorder of the stool, which can manifest itself in discoloration of feces.

To help with the treatment of diseases of the biliary tract come herbs. Good for the treatment of gallstone disease and cholecystitis are the yarrow, immortelle sand, wormwood, fennel fruits and peppermint leaves.

Herbs are taken in equal proportions, mixed, a broth is prepared in a water bath for 15 minutes, two tablespoons of the treatment mixture are needed for half a liter of boiling water. You can add honey to the broth, which is also useful in the treatment of diseases of this kind.

Regular use of half a glass of broth before meals for a week or two leads to stabilization of the digestive system, normalizes the gall bladder, and the symptoms of the disease recede.

However, it should be remembered that self-treatment is always fraught with adverse consequences, treatment should be prescribed by a competent specialist after a full examination of the patient. The remedies described above for treating biliary tract diseases are auxiliary, and cannot replace, if necessary, medical and sometimes surgical treatment.

A person, at least once faced with problems of the biliary tract, an attack of colic gall bladder, must be attentive to his state of health, lead a healthy lifestyle, eat rationally and healthy, periodically come for a visit to a specialist.


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