What are the symptoms and causes of multiple gallbladder polyps?

Nowadays people's living standards are getting better and better, but people's pace of life is also getting faster and faster. Busy work and pressure in life cause many people to have an irregular life. Bad living habits seriously endanger people's physical health. For example, multiple gallbladder polyps is a common disease nowadays, which has a lot to do with people’s bad living habits. Let’s take a look at the causes and symptoms of multiple gallbladder polyps.

Gallbladder polyps are highly hidden, and a considerable number of people have no previous symptoms, and are only discovered during physical examinations or examinations for other purposes, or after gallbladder removal for other diseases. When symptoms appear, there may be dull pain in the right flank, involving the right shoulder and back, accompanied by loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, and other clinical manifestations similar to chronic cholecystitis. When accompanied by stones, biliary colic may occur.

Related Questions

1. Regarding the size of polypoid lesions: Due to the ultrasound section or measurement errors, a difference of 1-3mm is understandable. It is impossible for two measurements on the same person to be exactly the same.

2. Regarding the number of polyps: Generally, malignant lesions of the gallbladder are mostly single (such as gallbladder cancer), while benign lesions of the gallbladder are often multiple (such as inflammatory polyps, cholesterol polyps, etc.), so in this case, I think benign lesions such as inflammatory polyps and cholesterol polyps are more likely;

Treatment

Polypoid lesions in the gallbladder require annual color B-ultrasound examinations. If the polyps become larger or there is discomfort in the right upper abdomen, it is recommended to visit the hospital's hepatobiliary surgery department.

A. In our country, there is an overreaction in the treatment of gallbladder wall polypoid lesions. That is, patients are afraid of cancer and often actively ask doctors to remove their gallbladders, so not all treatments are done in accordance with medical routine.

B. Patients undergo active conservative treatment (active anti-inflammatory, gallbladder-promoting, light diet, gallbladder-protecting and breath-regulating prescriptions, etc.), and are reviewed every 1-3 months. If the polyps become smaller, less or disappear, then it is often considered to be inflammatory polyps;

C. If there is no obvious change in the order of magnitude of the polyp after 1-3 months of active conservative treatment, that is, it is smaller than 10mm (surgeons often use a diameter greater than 10mm as the surgical standard), you can have a follow-up check every six months or a year. If it is a malignant lesion, it should grow bigger after 3 months. If it does not grow, it means it is benign. In this case, a follow-up check every six months is sufficient without spending extra money.

D. If the tumor grows larger than 10 mm after 1-3 months of conservative treatment, and ultrasound highly suspects malignancy, surgery should be performed.

What are the causes and symptoms of multiple gallbladder polyps? The above explanation has been very detailed. In order to make our bodies healthier and stay away from diseases, we should make our lives regular, quit smoking and drinking as much as possible, and stay away from radiation. The cause of multiple gallbladder polyps is mainly directly related to our living habits and lifestyle.