Pain in your gall? Must be gallstones
The gall-bladder is an organ situated near the mid- abdominal area of the body. It’s function is to store the bile that is secreted by the liver. Bile is used to dissolve the fat in the food. The bile flows through the gall bladder into the intestine where the fat is digested with the duodenum.
Like every other body part, the gall bladder can also experience some defects or illness. At times, the bile in the gallbladder can materialize into gallstones. Gallstones are usually found in women over the age of 40, who are slightly on the heavier side and are very fertile. Gallstones are primarily made of cholesterol, calcium and salt. This is usually caused by lack of exercise and poor diet.
The symptoms of the gallstones usually start with inflammation of the gallbladder and can end up in severe pain. The most dangerous part of this disease is, most people go on for a long time without experiencing the common symptoms. Signs that show that an individual is suffering from this disease include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and so on. What makes the disease so hard to diagnose is the fact the symptoms can also match a heart attack.
Usually gallstones are not very painful and most of the times, the diagnosis is entirely by accident. However at times, there are certain locations that can be inflamed in different parts of the body. This is when it is called a gallstone attack. The attack is in the form of pain can occur in the upper right part of the abdomen. Since the stones in the gall bladder are blocking the bile from being released, the contraction causes pain. The pain can extend to the back between the shoulder blades. Movement of any kind can aggravate the pain.
Apart from nausea and vomiting, there are other symptoms of gallstones such as gassiness, which includes passing intestine gas, clay-colored stool, chills, indigestion, jaundice, fever and so on.
The next question is how deadly are gallstones. Gallstones are not commonly dangerous, and they usually pass through a person’s body. But if the symptoms of the gallstones begin to show themselves as an “attack” or an “episode” that is when people should call medical professionals. However it is advisable to go to the hospital if one is suffering from jaundice, severe pain or fever.
In some very rare cases, gallstones can lead to gallbladder cancer. This is very unusual, unless somebody has weight problems and is a heavy smoker. Though there are surgeons that do operate on gallbladder cancers, most of the patients eventually succumb to it.
In not-so-extreme cases, patients have their gallbladder removed, and they can lead normal healthy lives. But, they also need to control their intake of fatty food since the absence of gallbladder, the body is unable to digest fat very well.
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