Treating and Identifying Characteristics of Gallstones: Medical Treatment, Surgery, and Diet

KOMPAS.com – Gallstones is a disease that causes a person to feel sudden intense abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and yellowing of the body.

This condition certainly makes people who have gallstones feel in pain and want to know the characteristics of gallstones that have come out or have healed.

To note, gallstones can be destroyed and leave the body by itself or after the patient has undergone medical treatment.

Read on to find out how to treat cholelithiasis until the gallstones have left the body.

Also read: 10 Natural Ways to Get Rid of Gallstones Without Surgery and Medication

How to treat gallstones?

Internal medicine specialist, dr. Ahmad Akbar, Sp. PD explained, treatment of gallstones can be with drugs or surgery.

“Treatment of bile can indeed be with drugs or with surgery,” said Akbar to Kompas.comThursday (31/8/2023).

“The drug, which contains bile acids, is expected to break down the stone so that it becomes small or dissolves the hard stone so that it can pass by itself through the channel,” he added.

Excerpted from the Clevelanc Clinic and Verywell Health, drugs that can be consumed to remove gallstones, such as ursodeoxycholic acid, fenavel, ursochol, estazor, to urdex.

Then, medical measures that can be taken to treat gallstones include:

Gallstone surgery with laparoscopy aimed at removing the bladder and gallstones. A combination of endoscopy with X-rays to remove stones in the bile duct.

Apart from treatment, changes in diet are also needed to treat gallstones, for example a diet rich in fiber, limiting consumption of fatty and high cholesterol foods, to consuming foods with vitamin C.

Also read: 12 Signs of Gallstones, Avoid Ignoring

What are the characteristics of gallstones already out?

Furthermore, doctor Akbar explained that the characteristics of gallstones that have left the body are reduced symptoms or complaints felt by the patient.

“Clinically what the patient can feel is that complaints are improving, meaning that abdominal pain is reduced, nausea and vomiting are reduced, or if there is yellow skin, the yellow will disappear,” said the specialist in internal medicine at JIH Solo Hospital.

However, to ascertain whether gallstone disease has healed, Akbar suggests an ultrasound examination with a doctor to assess the size and number of stones after treatment.

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2023-08-31 08:00:00
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