(Gallstones) Do you like fatty foods? You might develop this.

If you frequently experience abdominal pain and do not normally enjoy fatty foods, you may have gallstones. It is necessary to suspect gallstones. Gallstones are one of the most common diseases worldwide, and they mainly occur in people who eat a lot of foods high in cholesterol.

 

Many people believe gallstones are stones. However, gallstones are actually clumps of bile (a digestive fluid produced by the liver) composed of various organic substances, including bile acids and cholesterol, that accumulate in the gallbladder or bile ducts. Cholesterol is naturally soluble in bile, but when cholesterol levels in the body increase, it cannot fully dissolve and clumps together to form gallstones. A 1997 analysis of patients with gallstones (gallstones formed in the gallbladder) at 19 university hospitals nationwide found that cholesterol stones accounted for 58.1%.

 

Gallstones are divided into "pigment stones," caused by liver disease, parasites, or cholecystitis, and "cholesterol gallstones," caused by high cholesterol levels. The medical community estimates that most gallstone patients currently have cholesterol gallstones.

If a gallstone remains confined to the gallbladder, there are no specific symptoms. However, if it blocks the cystic duct (the entrance to the gallbladder), pain in the epigastric region and nausea can occur. This is because bile produced in the liver must be stored in the gallbladder and then drained through the cystic duct, and if this passage is blocked, pressure within the gallbladder increases.

 

Director Byun Geon-yeong of Damsoyu Hospital said, "There are many patients with gallstones who go to the emergency room because of severe abdominal pain, but the symptoms disappear quickly, so they think it is just abdominal pain and ignore it." "This is because the gallstone that blocked the cystic duct has moved back into the gallbladder. Even if the pain disappears, you should suspect gallstones and undergo an abdominal ultrasound," he said. If left untreated, gallstones can migrate to the common bile duct, causing jaundice and potentially developing into acute cholecystitis.

 

Patients with gallstones who have complications such as acute cholecystitis or acute pancreatitis must receive treatment. Some patients with gallstones, even without specific symptoms, may require a cholecystectomy. This may include patients with calcified gallbladder walls, coexisting red blood cell disorders, large gallstones, or gallbladder polyps. In these cases, the gallbladder is removed as a preventive measure, as there is a risk of developing gallbladder cancer.

 

Even after undergoing cholecystectomy, there's no problem digesting food, as bile is secreted by the liver. However, because there's no place to store bile, it flows directly into the intestines, so diarrhea may occur for two to four weeks after the surgery. After about a month, the common bile duct begins to take over the gallbladder's role, so there's no need to worry.

 

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I don't usually like oily food.

I have a stomachache for no reason,

 

Gallbladder also during this health checkup,

I think I should try it once~

 

Besides the national health checkup,

We need to look into it in more detail.