The gallbladder is a small pear-shaped sac on the lower side of the liver, on the right side of the abdomen, which contains about half a cup of a yellowish-green liquid called bile. The liver produces liquid bile, and then moves it into the gallbladder, where it becomes 4-12 times more concentrated than in the liver.
Some 700,000 people in the United States exported their gallbladder last year. The number of these operations has increased over the decades after the introduction of laparoscopy. Due to the popularity of laparoscopic surgery, many people believe that the operation to remove the gallbladder is simple and safe. Although the procedure is not particularly risky, complications after surgery occur on a regular basis.
Doctors call these complications postcholecystectomy syndrome (PCS). Cholecystectomy is the removal of the gallbladder, and the syndrome belongs to a group of symptoms that can occur after cholecystectomy. PCS can occur even after surgery performed by a brilliant surgeon with advanced surgical techniques that performed the operation without complications.
Indefinite diagnosis and emergency surgery are risk factors for the development of future complications. In most cases, the longer the symptoms continue until the surgery, the greater the risk of developing problems. If cholecystectomy is used to treat gallstones, approximately 20-29% of patients develop PCS. Younger patients have an increased chance of developing PCS.
Gallstones and severe inflammation are the governing factor for removing the gallbladder. Surgery can remove the gallbladder, but the operation itself cannot eliminate all the actual causes of stones and inflammation. In addition, the removal of the gallbladder causes additional problems for digestion, proper operation of the pancreas, liver and colon.
What are the main functions of the gallbladder, and why is it important to have a healthy gallbladder?
• The most important function of bile is that, along with pancreatic enzymes, it helps the body digest fats. When the semi-digested food moves from the stomach to the first part of the small intestine (duodenum), it is a signal for the gallbladder to shrink. Large amounts of concentrated bile are secreted through the bile ducts into the duodenum to digest fatty foods.
• Bile preparations to remove harmful fat-soluble toxins, heavy metals, pigments, bile acids and cholesterol from the body.
• Concentrated gallbladder bile has antimicrobial properties that help keep the duodenum from harmful invaders, such as bad bacteria, parasites, and yeast.
• In ideal and normal condition, alkaline bile neutralizes acidity and creates the most positive condition for pancreatic enzymes to digest food.
• The gallbladder also serves as a buffer reservoir to prevent high pressure in the bile and pancreatic ducts.
• Bile from the gallbladder stimulates the peristaltic movement of the intestine.
• Concentrated gallbladder helps digestion and assimilation of fat-soluble vitamins such as A, D, E and K.
After removal of the gallbladder, all these functions decrease or deteriorate. Poorly digested food is collected in the small intestine, where it contains excessive growth of bad bacteria and yeast. This causes constant fermentation of food, which creates gas and irritation of the small intestine. Undigested food spoils inside the gastrointestinal tract, while the body tries to get rid of this toxic material.
Our body has only two holes for this: either the mouth or the anus. Therefore, trying to throw poisons through the mouth, a person suffers from belching, heartburn, nausea and vomiting. As the undigested food passes through intestinal diarrhea, there is constipation and pain in the lower abdomen. Doctors call this disease a bacterial excess gut.
In the absence of a gallbladder to collect sour bile from the liver, bile constantly flows into the intestine, even if there is no food. It irritates the lining of the duodenum, creating spasmodic contractions of the intestinal walls, which leads to "wrong movement" - reflux. An irritated, aggressive mixture of bile and pancreatic enzymes flows into the stomach, causing heartburn, inflammation and ulcers. When these aggressive bile acids from the liver move into the colon, it causes diarrhea, inflammation of the colon, or even colon cancer.
This leads to dyspepsia leading to intrinsic toxicity and vital nutrient deficiencies with psychosomatic symptoms, such as depression, anxiety, low pain tolerance or IBS, fibromyalgia, food sensitivity and food allergies.
This variety of problems and symptoms requires a variety of procedures. After removal of the gallbladder, a series of non-prescription, non-surgical alternative approaches can be very useful in reducing the effects of gallbladder removal.
The goal is to reduce the acidity of the body, reduce cramps and pain, improve the quality and quantity of liver bile, reduce internal toxicity, restore proper digestion, replace nutritional deficiencies, etc.
Healing procedures
It is important that a person suffering from problems with the gallbladder, eat a healthy diet of alkaline organic foods, often eats, and in small portions. Many people who have undergone surgery on the gallbladder have a problem with the digestion of fatty foods. Undigested fats cause a greasy, runny, unpleasant stool odor. For this reason, trans fats, animal fats and fried foods should be avoided.
People without gallbladder often suffer from food sensitivities and food allergies, which require limited nutrition, especially during attacks. Stay away from alcohol, white flour, sugar, soda and spicy foods. Drinking 8-12 glasses of water daily dilutes the bile, washes away toxins and reduces the acidity of the whole body. Drinking clean and purified water, fresh diluted vegetable juices and blends, herbal teas and healing mineral water are recommended.
Healing mineral water has long traditions throughout the world, including Europe, Israel, China and Japan. However, despite its popularity among people in Europe, this type of healing is largely unknown in the United States and Canada. The most popular healing mineral water - from Karlovy Vary - one of the most famous resorts in Europe. The Czech city of Karlovy Vary (Karlovy Vary) has been an outstanding global spa resort since the 1700s.
The demand for this water was high, so Czech doctors began to produce salt from evaporated thermal water. European doctors used the Karlovy Vary mineral water to treat people after gallbladder surgery for more than 100 years. Since then, hundreds of clinical texts and articles have been published illustrating the healing effects of water prepared from spring salt of Karlovy Vary, both in animals and in people without gallbladders.
Karlovy Vary healing mineral waters reduce digestive disorders, strengthen the digestive system, normalize the acid-base balance and help with proper metabolism of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Its most important action is to improve liver function by increasing the production and flow of bile, stimulating intestinal peristalsis and preventing food stagnation in the digestive tract.
Another alternative approach to cholecystectomy syndrome is acupuncture. Two thousand years ago, doctors in the East knew about the importance of the gallbladder. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the functions of Gallbladder are that it:
Stores and waste bile
Organizes decision making
Tendon management
Dream effect
Works together with the liver
According to TCM, the liver and gallbladder play a significant role in the smooth flow of Qi (energy) through the body. To have a healthy life, which is a function of the liver, you need good decision-making skills, which are a function of the gallbladder.
In recent years, many scientific articles have been published on the normalization of acupuncture after a syndrome after cholecystectomy. Acupuncture can help relieve abdominal pain and various symptoms such as nausea, heartburn, belching, diarrhea, low mood and energy, insomnia, fibromyalgia, etc.
Other alternative methods of alternative medicine for post-cholecystectomy syndrome may include herbs, nutritional supplements, probiotics, colon hydrotherapy, medical hypnosis, and more.
Summary
So, you had a gall bladder operation - your gallbladder disappeared. It is time to educate yourself in improving your health and healthy nutrition. By following the suggestions above, you can alleviate the side effects of gallbladder removal.
Information about this article is provided for educational, informational purposes only. It is not intended to replace the diagnosis, treatment, or counseling of a qualified, licensed specialist.
