Recovery period of minimally invasive surgery for gallstones

In modern medical technology, gallstone surgery is actually a minimally invasive surgery because it does not require surgery or other medical methods. Most people do not take minimally invasive surgery seriously, thinking that it will not have any impact on their bodies. However, patients with gallstones should still pay attention to their body's recovery after minimally invasive surgery to prevent the disease from recurring. So how long is the recovery period for patients with gallstones who undergo minimally invasive surgery?

First of all, let me introduce: What should you pay attention to in your diet after gallstone surgery?

1. Eat more vegetables. Vegetables can increase the content of certain substances in bile, thereby reducing the cholesterol saturation in bile, which is not conducive to the formation of gallstones.

2. Eat less sweets. Regarding the dietary taboos after gallstone surgery, patients should eat more sweets, which will not only make people fat easily but also stimulate the secretion of insulin. Insulin will accelerate the synthesis and accumulation of cholesterol, causing an increase in blood cholesterol, resulting in an imbalance in the ratio of cholesterol, bile salts and lecithin. The imbalance among the three makes cholesterol relatively saturated and forms cholesterol stones.

3. Maintain regular meals three times a day and eat breakfast. Irregular diet causes excessive concentration of bile in the gallbladder to produce crystals and irregular emptying, which can easily lead to the formation of stones.

4. Appropriate exercise and movement: After surgery, patients should be assisted to perform appropriate exercise and movement, do it according to their ability, step by step, and avoid being too hasty or too intense, so as to achieve the purpose of enhancing cardiopulmonary function and reducing the occurrence of postoperative fatigue syndrome.

It is also necessary to insist on regular check-ups and follow-up examinations of gallbladder function after surgery. Patients with gallstones generally need to go to the hospital for hepatobiliary ultrasound examination within 1, 3, and 6 months after surgery to understand the gallbladder and its functional status. The purpose of minimally invasive surgery is to avoid obstruction and inflammation caused by stones and to avoid damage to gallbladder function.

The stimulation and damage to the gallbladder caused by minimally invasive cholecystolithotomy itself will have different degrees of impact on gallbladder function. The degree of impact varies among different patients, some recover quickly, and some recover slowly. Generally speaking, patients with good physical fitness recover relatively faster.

Although cholelithiasis is a common disease, it is not terrible as long as it is treated rationally. I believe, dear fellow cholelithiasis patients, that we can face cholelithiasis correctly. Finally, I wish all patients a speedy recovery.