What are the treatments for silt gallstones?

Mud-like gallstones are a type of gallbladder stones, but the name of this disease is quite professional and some people may not be very familiar with it. Once you suffer from this disease, you may feel fullness or pain in the upper abdomen, and often feel nausea, vomiting and other reactions. And if this situation is very serious, it may cause the gallbladder to atrophy, so people must pay attention to it and remember some relevant knowledge about mud-like gallstones. Let us now learn about the disease of mud-like gallstones.

1. Symptoms

1. Usually there are symptoms of indigestion such as upper abdominal discomfort and belching.

2. Sometimes patients may feel dull pain in the upper abdomen and liver area, which is usually persistent.

3. After abdominal pain, there are often gastrointestinal reactions such as nausea and vomiting.

4. After meals, patients often have a feeling of fullness or dull pain in the upper abdomen.

Mud-like gallstones or gallbladder-filled stones are usually accompanied by gallbladder atrophy or expansion. If the gallbladder atrophy is severe, the symptoms may no longer appear. At this time, the gallbladder has lost its function, and appropriate treatment should be sought as soon as possible.

2. Treatment Methods

1. Conservative treatment

Use Chinese medicine to promote bile secretion and expel stones. Drink more lemon water and eat some roasted walnut kernels (5-6 pieces) at night. Improving diet, improving physical condition, and conducting reasonable conservative treatment with Chinese medicine have little effect. Moreover, there is a certain possibility of acute pancreatitis occurring with conservative treatment. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment can change the internal environment of the human body, eliminate toxic substances in the blood that cause stones, and remove the material basis for the formation of stones. Larger stones can be dissolved, broken into smaller pieces and excreted from the body. After removing endotoxins, the internal environment of the body is purified, thereby preventing the recurrence of stones. Commonly used Chinese medicine preparations include Gallstone Dissolving Decoction and Stone Dissolving Decoction. [1]

2. Cholecystectomy

Generally, when suffering from mud-like gallstones, the gallbladder function will generally be damaged to a certain extent. If serious gallbladder damage occurs, the best treatment method is to use laparoscopic cholecystectomy to remove the gallbladder, removing the diseased gallbladder and mud-like gallstones together.

3. Gallbladder preservation and stone removal

This technique is a new technology for treating digestive tract stones. It uses some endoscopic drainage to treat muddy gallstones.

4. Gallbladder preservation and stone removal

It is the best treatment method when the gallbladder function is not seriously damaged. ERCP drainage is used to treat sludge gallstones.

3. Postoperative Diet

1. Prohibition of alcohol and alcoholic beverages;

2. Eat regularly and have a good breakfast;

3. Low cholesterol diet. Excessive cholesterol intake can increase the metabolism and cleansing burden of the liver and gallbladder, and cause excess cholesterol to crystallize, accumulate and precipitate on the gallbladder wall, thereby forming stones. Therefore, you should reduce your cholesterol intake, especially at night, and avoid eating high-cholesterol foods such as eggs (especially egg yolks), fatty meat, seafood, scaleless fish, animal offal and other foods.

4. It is advisable to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, and low-fat, low-cholesterol foods such as: mushrooms, fungus, celery, bean sprouts, kelp, lotus root, fish, rabbit meat, chicken, fresh beans, etc.

5. It is advisable to eat more dry beans and their products.

6. It is advisable to use vegetable oil instead of animal oil.

7. Eat less irritating or spicy foods such as chili peppers and raw garlic.