What is Gallstone Disease? What are its symptoms, diagnosis & treatments?

What is Gallstone Disease? What are its symptoms, diagnosis & treatments?

Posted on: Apr 10, 2023

Gallstones form in your gallbladder, the small, pear-shaped organ where your body stores bile. They are pebble-like pieces of concentrated bile materials. Bile fluid contains cholesterol, bilirubin, bile salts and lecithin. Gallstones are usually made up of cholesterol or bilirubin that collect at the bottom of your gallbladder until they harden into stones.Gallstones can be as small as a grain of sand or as big as a golf ball. They grow gradually, as bile continues to wash over them and they collect extra materials.

It is common in females in their forties. Usually patients come with upper abdominal pain, indigestion especially to fried food, sometimes nausea and vomiting. Many of them are treated as patients of gastritis. So if anyone experiences similar symptoms should undergo an ultrasound examination. It is the best investigation to diagnose a gall stone disease.

Treatment is Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy i. e removal of diseased gall bladder and the stone within. It offers minimal pain,minimal chance of bleeding and infection, early discharge from hospital, early return to normalcy.