Biliary or otherwise, hepatic colic, manifests itself in the form of attacks of severe pain in the region of the right rib. A person who has experienced such a condition at least once understands how painful this is. In severe cases, the patient may experience paroxysmal pain for several days. Therefore, if hepatic colic occurs, first aid should be quick and skillful.
Why does it arise? The reasons may be violations in the outflow of bile, blockage of the bile duct with stones, resulting from a spasm of the smooth muscles of the ducts. Usually this is a consequence of biliary tract discension, chronic stoneless cholecystitis or cholelithiasis. When hepatic colic occurs, severe pain can occur both in the right hypochondrium and give to the shoulder blade or shoulder located on the right side. More often people start treatment too late. Therefore, you need to know that, as soon as a person begins to appear daily bitterness in his mouth in the morning or throughout the day, these are the first messengers of problems with the gall bladder and liver. If you wave your hand at such signals of the body, the next symptom that it will make itself felt is hepatic colic.
Treatment, if you start it on time, will keep the situation under control. You will need angelica root, birch and nettle leaves, corn stigmas, rose hips and milk thistle, mint, oregano, yarrow, wormwood, St. John's wort, quail, basilica, tansy, calendula and immortelle. Crush all these herbs and mix thoroughly. Brew, insist and take for a month. Ideal for the prevention of diseases such as hepatic colic. Treatment of various types of etiology, biliary tract, gall bladder and liver is carried out using this effective folk remedy. The collection helps to remove bile pigments and toxins from the body, has anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic and antispasmodic effects.
If no preventative measures were taken, hepatic colic may suddenly and abruptly begin. First aid begins with an emergency call immediately. In no case should the patient walk and try to move as little as possible, as this is fraught with bouts of nausea and vomiting. Vomit contains bile. The temperature rises and the pain intensifies. Lay the patient on the bed immediately and give him pain medication. You can give several tablets of papaverine or no-shpa, validol on the tongue at once. No more should be done without a doctor's examination. Closely monitor the patient's condition.
After the attack passes, the patient will need bed rest. First of all, so that hepatic colic does not appear again, you need to carefully review your diet. Fatty fish, fatty meat, caviar, liver, brains and egg yolks should be removed from it. All foods that contain maximum cholesterol. Necessarily fractional nutrition. No alcohol, even in small quantities. The best way to improve your health is to visit the steam bath regularly. And before you go there, make the next infusion. Pour the flowers of the sandy immortelle with boiling water, a thermos is ideal. Take it with you and use the infusion between visits to the steam room.
If hepatic colic occurs and pain in the abdomen lasts too long, sometimes more than five to six hours, then surgery is necessary. To prevent this condition, eat a minimum of foods high in cholesterol. Doctors say that it is for this reason that this condition occurs. And therefore, it is recommended to find and eliminate the cause of its occurrence to get rid of the pain.