The gallbladder is pear-shaped and located behind the liver. Its main function is to receive and concentrate bile. Bile contains cholesterol, bile acids, bile salts and other components, which can promote the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins, promote the decomposition, digestion and absorption of fat, and also remove bacteria in biliary tract.
Second, don't cut it unless you have to.
Generally speaking, after cholecystectomy, bile accumulation and storage function in non-digestive period are lost. In other words, bile will be continuously discharged directly into the intestine, affecting normal digestion and absorption. So, don't cut the gallbladder unless you have to.
Clinically, as the last resort to remove gallbladder, there are the following:
1. A serious gallbladder infection occurred, which had a serious impact on the health of patients;
2. Severe gallstones, obstruction and infection, threatening health;
3. Gallbladder cancer, if the gallbladder is not removed in time, cancer cells may spread throughout the body, leading to death.
Third, what sequelae may be caused by cholecystectomy?
Cholecystectomy will bring about a series of changes, and there is no important organ in the body. The data showed that after cholecystectomy, more than 92% patients had abdominal distension, diarrhea, indigestion and other problems in different degrees, and 18% patients were complicated with common bile duct stones and intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile duct stones.
Generally speaking, there may be the following sequelae:
1. Reflux gastritis
After cholecystectomy, bile can continue to be produced, but the secretion will be greatly reduced, and it can not be concentrated normally, which seriously affects the normal digestive function. When eating some indigestible or high-fat foods, gastrointestinal symptoms such as abdominal distension and diarrhea will appear. Some patients will have bile reflux after cholecystectomy, which is easy to cause reflux gastritis.
2. Common bile duct stones
After cholecystectomy, common bile duct can replace gallbladder. However, because there is no gallbladder for storing bile, the internal pressure of common bile duct is too high, which causes compensatory dilatation, makes bile stay in common bile duct for too long, and increases the incidence of common bile duct stones.
3. Postcholecystectomy syndrome
The incidence of postoperative gallbladder syndrome is about 10%-30%, which is characterized by flatulence in the upper abdomen, high fever, jaundice, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite and increased stool frequency, which seriously affects the quality of life.
Some experts believe that after cholecystectomy, bile in the liver will flow into the intestine, which will stimulate the intestine and increase the prevalence of colon cancer. But there is no particularly strong evidence to prove the relationship between cholecystectomy and colon cancer.
Fourth, be kind to the gallbladder, you need to do this.
In a word, gallbladder is indispensable to maintain the normal function of the body. Learn to be kind to gallbladder in daily life, and don't wait until it is lost to know how to cherish it.
Insist on eating breakfast
The gallbladder of human body should be emptied regularly. Some people are in a hurry to go to school or work in the morning and often skip breakfast. If you don't eat breakfast, the gallbladder preserved overnight can't discharge concentrated bile into the small intestine to help digest food, which prolongs the time of bile in the gallbladder and increases the risk of stones.
Eat lightly.
Avoid high-fat, high-cholesterol diet, so as to avoid high cholesterol concentration in bile, precipitate cholesterol crystals and form stones.
Avoid long-term vegetarianism
Not eating meat and vegetarian food for a long time will affect the body's absorption of nutrients, cause bile deficiency, affect cholesterol metabolism and cause gallstones.
Drink more soft water and less hard water.
Soft water refers to water with low calcium and magnesium ion content, and hard water refers to water with high calcium and magnesium ion content. People who rarely drink water or often drink hard water may also cause bile concentration and induce gallstones.
Timely treatment of induced diseases
Diabetes, liver cirrhosis and other diseases should be treated in a timely and standardized manner, because these two diseases will change the bile composition, make the gallbladder contract abnormally, and increase the incidence of gallstones.
The gallbladder seems unremarkable, but it actually plays a very important role in the body. Only by being kind to the gallbladder will there be no need to remove the gallbladder, and there will be no troubles such as sequelae of cholecystectomy.
Have you learned to protect your gallbladder?