Gall Bladder – Diseases, Symptoms, Treatments
Author: Groshan Fabiola

First Gall Bladder Symptom-Jaundice the most obvious symptom
When the skin becomes jaundiced(yellow or orange)and the whites of the eye take a yellow colour as well there is most likely an issue with the gall bladder or the liver. Jaundice shows that the liver is not working properly and can't transform the old blood into bile or that there is a blockage in the gall bladder.

Second symptom is the pain
Pains can appear in the upper abdomen or below the ribs on the right side they are rare once in a while. It may be accompanied by nausea and vomiting and may spread in the right shoulder, the attack of pain can be severe and frequent and may have different durations from minutes to hours. Pain in gall bladder may be confused with other types of pains in different diseases: kidney stones, gastric ulcer, heart pains, back problems. Attacks are triggered by chocolate, cheese or pastry and other fatty foods.

Third symptom are the gall stones
There may be silent stones of the existence of which people don't know and are found accidently from X-rays. These stones usually do not require treatment. Other symptoms are: abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, indigestion, fatty food intolerance, gas, biliary colic, belching, abdominal bloating.
Symptoms that require immediate attention and medical intervention are: fever, sweating, jaundice, persistent pain, chills, pale stools.

Fourth symptoms-gall bladder attack symptoms
May occur any time at night or after a fatty meal, attacks last for 1-2 hours, may cause nausea and vomiting and severe pain in the back between the shoulders. After a true attack occurs, subsequent attacks are more frequent.

Remember that the following are gall bladder attack symptom:
Upper abdominal pain, back pain, pain - between the shoulder blades, nausea, vomiting, steady severe pain that increases rapidly and lasts up to 40 minutes each 2-3 hours with nausea, vomiting, pain - between the shoulder blades.

During the night gall bladder attack symptoms follow after fatty meals and manifest with: colic, bleching, gas, indigestion, abdominal bloating, recurring intolerance of fatty foods. As a treatment: it is treated with antibiotics and in urgent cases emergency surgery is required to remove the gallbladder.

Painful attacks are to be treated with painkillers. Keeping a low fat diet and placing something warm on the pain spot are also helpful methods. Gallbladder disease affects mostly women. Those symptoms are not to be dismissed because they suggest if the state of health is changing and how is this happening.

It is important to intervene with the treatment as soon as possible before becoming too late and dangerous with its complications for the patient's life.The treatment may be surgical or alternative treatment.

For more resources about gall bladder please review http://www.gall-bladder-guide.com/gall-bladder-removal.htm or even http://www.gall-bladder-guide.com/gall-bladder-symptoms.htm

 

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