Who needs to know the symptoms and treatment of cholecystitis?

Distinguish between acute and chronic cholecystitis. Acute cholecystitis is simple and destructive. Knowing the symptoms and treating cholecystitis depending on its shape is very important to avoid complications. When acute cholecystitis worried severe pain in the right upper quadrant, which renders under the scapula, in the back, intensifies with a deep inspiration, nausea and vomiting of bile. With a destructive form, the body temperature rises and vomiting is disturbed.

Knowing the symptoms, and treating cholecystitis start with all the symptoms. So, in case of acute illness, bed rest and hunger are appointed for several days, until the situation is fully clarified. If the conservative treatment is ineffective in acute cholecystitis, surgery is performed and the gallbladder is removed. With a complicated destructive process, this is required.

In case of refusal from surgical treatment, the patient often develops complications of cholecystitis, time is wasted. And later, extensive surgical intervention is required with subsequent long-term postoperative treatment.

When pain occurs in the right upper quadrant, it is better to call a doctor or an ambulance at home. Before their arrival, do not need to do an enema, give a laxative with constipation, do a lavage of the stomach with vomiting, hoping to remove intoxication. It is not necessary to eat at all. In this situation, hunger is the best medicine.

With an acute attack of cholecystitis, hospitalization and bed rest are indicated. Treatment consists of parenteral administration of detoxification drugs, antispasmodics, antibiotics, and pain medication.

In a chronic process, the symptoms and treatment of cholecystitis differ somewhat. As a rule, the disease develops against the background of another, already existing disease of the gastrointestinal tract. The pains are dull, aching in nature, occur after taking a heavy or fatty food after two or three hours. The pains are constant, they are given to the right shoulder, under the scapula, to the neck, with a deep inhalation they intensify. The patient is worried about bloating, belching, nausea, bitterness in the mouth, alternation of diarrhea and constipation.

With palpation, the gallbladder is not detected, most likely, it is wrinkled due to the sclerotic process. With duodenal probing, it is seldom possible to obtain an average bile from the bladder, and if it does, it will be cloudy and dark. When you study it, you can identify the causative agent of the disease and know more precisely how to treat cholecystitis in the future.

In chronic cholecystitis, antibiotics, antispasmodics, cholagogue preparations are prescribed, I do a paranephric neocaine blockade to relieve pain, tjubazhi with magnesia and mineral water for the outflow of bile from the bladder and its washing. Outside exacerbations, thermal physiotherapy procedures are prescribed. A good effect is provided by phytotherapy and acupuncture.

For the prevention of disease it is useful to sanatorium treatment in Essentuki, Zheleznovodsk, Truskavets, Borzhomi and in local sanatoria.

In the absence of contraindications, knowing the symptoms, and treating cholecystitis can be done correctly, depending on its course and the duration of the disease. But without dieting, there is no point in treatment. When the disease worsens, it's best to sit on a half-starved diet for the first few days, and let the body rest.

It is the constant violations, errors in eating, drinking alcohol and smoking provoke new attacks, exacerbation of the disease, negate any, even the most effective treatment. Categorically, one should not eat fatty, spicy food, smoked foods and spices. You can not cook mushroom and boiled broth, fatty meat, flour and, of course, alcoholic beverages.