When is the best time to treat gallstones

If you suffer from gallstones, you must pay attention to timely treatment. This does not mean the best time for treatment. Only by taking treatment measures as early as possible can you achieve the desired effect. Therefore, once symptoms are found, you should actively check and clarify, and then respond to treatment correctly.

1. There is no best time. The principle is to have elective surgery as early as possible.

Because, once a gallbladder stone occurs, it will lose its function of storing, concentrating and excreting bile. Keeping a diseased gallbladder is equivalent to keeping a lesion. Second, no medication or conservative treatment can remove the lesions. What's more, there is currently no effective drug to prevent stone formation. Third, adopt a wait-and-see attitude and perform surgery once biliary colic occurs. This practice is potentially very dangerous. Based on the above situation, weighing the pros and cons, it is recommended to have elective surgery as early as possible.

2. Dietary considerations for gallstones: In addition to not smoking, drinking, eating spicy, fried, and grilled foods, patients with gallstones should also abstain from eating roosters, cows, sheep, dogs, pig's feet, donkeys, turtles, ginseng, deer antlers, tortoise glue, donkey-hide gelatin, longan, lychee, bamboo shoots, onions, mushrooms (including mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, popcorn mushrooms, etc., mushroom foods will cause hair growth), betel nuts, and all fish, freshwater, and marine animals, especially shrimps, crabs and other seafood. Vegetables except leeks, pumpkins, onions, eggplants, bamboo shoots, and garlic can be eaten. You can eat all fruits except lychee, longan, mango, durian and jackfruit. You can eat grains, potatoes and beans. You cannot eat animals in seafood, but you can eat plants, such as hair algae, seaweed and kelp. You can drink Deputi Yushitong tea, a Chinese medicine for removing stones, which is safe.

3. Treatment Methods

1. Drug treatment: Drink Defu Yuxuantong tea. It dissolves stones and promotes stone excretion. It has the function of protecting kidney function, repairing damage, and changing the internal environment and urine properties.

2. Surgical treatment: Direct removal of the gallbladder through surgery can quickly eradicate the lesion. However, surgery has certain indications and is not suitable for all patients. Moreover, traditional open surgery causes great damage to the human body and requires a long period of hospitalization to recover, affecting work and life.

3. Lithotripsy: No hospitalization is required and the damage is small. However, due to the special position and structure of the gallbladder, the stones are not easy to locate. Even if the stones are broken, they are difficult to expel, and the frequency of abdominal pain will increase. What's worse, it may cause common bile duct stones.