Recently, Mr. Liu, 45, was faced with an important decision: whether to remove his gallbladder. Last week, he was found to have multiple polyps, which are gallstones, and the doctor recommended that he stay in the hospital for observation. But he is a workmaniac, and he has heard others say that the gallbladder is not important and can be cut off. He was in a state of anxiety.
Cases like Mr. Liu's also reflect the confusion and confusion of most patients with gallbladder disease about whether to remove the gallbladder, and they do not know about the gallbladder.
The gallbladder is a sac structure behind the liver under the right rib cage (that is, in the gallbladder fossa of the liver), which has the function of concentrating, storing and releasing bile, and belongs to the human digestive organs.
As for the question of whether to remove the gallbladder, the doctor's statement is that it is best not to cut the gallbladder, because the removal of the gallbladder has a certain impact on the human body.
1. What happens to a person's body without a gallbladder?
The role of the gallbladder is closely related to bile. The gallbladder is mainly used to store bile, concentrate bile, and regulate bile secretion.
The gallbladder stores the bile secreted by the liver, and when the food enters the small intestine, the gallbladder will immediately contract, release bile, let the bile flow into the small intestine, help the small intestine digest fat, and reduce pressure on the small intestine; the gallbladder can concentrate the water and other components in the bile, so that the digestion of the small intestine can be maximized; the gallbladder can also control the secretion and concentration of bile according to the body's regulatory mechanism, so that the small intestine can adapt to different digestive needs, and prevent the intestinal wall from being damaged.
When the body removes the gallbladder, it means that part of the body's ability to digest and absorb is weakened. The bile secreted by the liver always needs to be filtered in the gallbladder first, and the absence of the gallbladder makes the bile unable to be filtered, and it is possible to develop stones on the common bile duct of the liver. Patients who have their gallbladder removed are prone to stomach ache and fever at this time.
Secondly, without the gallbladder, there is no way to control the amount and concentration of bile. Bile easily refluxes into the stomach and esophagus, damaging the stomach and esophagus, so that as long as the patient hics, he will carry bitter water, which is mostly composed of stomach acid and bile.
Finally, bile is not stored in the gallbladder, and the direct flow of bile into the intestines in the human body stimulates the peristalsis of the intestines, damages the intestinal wall, makes the patient have diarrhea, irritates the skin of the rectum and anus, and produces a burning sensation in the buttocks, accompanied by pain.
Although the gallbladder is not an organ as important as the stomach and liver, it is also worth noting. Cutting out the gallbladder may cause the above physiological conditions, and there are three diseases that may come to the door!
Two or three kinds of diseases have come to the door! We should pay attention to this phenomenon
The removal of the gallbladder will bring certain discomfort to the body. According to relevant data, when the patient has his gallbladder removed, he is very likely to be found by these three diseases!
1. Bile duct stones
Bile duct stones are a common disease of the biliary system in mainland China, which is caused by cholestasis or infection of the biliary tract. When the patient removes the gallbladder, the bile cannot be stored in the gallbladder, and there is no way to filter through the gallbladder, and the liver only secretes bile but cannot control the bile, resulting in a large amount of bile, not filtered, and flowing at will, which accumulates on the bile duct, resulting in the infection of the biliary tract, producing stones, and developing into hepatic duct stones.
Patients presenting with hepatic ductal stones often present with abdominal pain, chills, high fever, and jaundice. The abdominal pain of patients is usually manifested as persistent subxiphoid colic and right upper quadrant colic, which usually refers to the middle and lower part of the sternum and belongs to the upper abdomen. During the painful process, the patient also has a high body temperature and shiveres from time to time. If patients with liver duct stones do not treat the symptoms in time and allow the liver duct to be blocked, jaundice symptoms such as yellowing of the skin and mucous membranes and lightening stool will occur.
2. Reflux gastritis
Reflux gastritis is also called bile reflux gastritis.
When the patient's gallbladder is removed and the bile has no organ to control it, it returns from the duodenum and into the stomach along with pancreatic juice, and the burn irritates the gastric mucosa, resulting in reflux gastritis.
Patients with reflux gastritis usually have abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite, resulting in reduced meal intake and malnutrition in the daily diet. After a long period of time, symptoms such as weight loss, weakness, and low immunity may occur, and vomiting blood may occur.
3. Colon cancer
Colon cancer is a malignant tumor of the digestive tract that occurs in the colonic epithelium.
The gallbladder not only has the effect of properly concentrating water and other components in bile, but also has the effect of regulating the secretion of bile. These two effects greatly prevent the appearance of colon cancer.
Then, if there is no gallbladder, colon cancer will easily "come to the door". Because of the lack of gallbladder, the primary bile acid in bile and other components cannot be reasonably concentrated, and its "whereabouts" are not controlled, directly entering the intestines, destroying and stimulating the intestinal mucosa, resulting in the proliferation of the intestinal mucosa. If the irritation of the intestinal mucosa is not treated for a period of time, colon cancer will come to the door.
Patients with gallbladder removal will generally have weaker physical fitness than ordinary people, so patients without gallbladder must pay attention to the above conditions, if there are the above related symptoms, then it is very likely that these three diseases will come to the door!
3. The doctor said: protect the gallbladder well, it is best not to remove the gallbladder!
From the above three diseases, we can understand that the gallbladder is very important for the human body! So what is the usual cause of gallbladder removal?
The gallbladder is usually removed, possibly because the patient has symptoms of gallstones, cholecystitis, or gallbladder cancer. If the patient has irregular work and rest, irregular eating, poor diet structure, long-term intake of high-protein, high-fat, high-calorie diet, and does not actively exercise, gallstones may occur. As gallstones become more severe, they can block the bile ducts, leading to cholestasis, which can lead to further infection and cholecystitis. Or gallstones, in severe cases, can also become a predisposing factor for gallbladder cancer.
It can be seen that in order to avoid the risk of gallbladder removal, our daily work and rest time and eating habits are very important. So, what can we do to protect our gallbladder?
1. Reasonable work and rest time
The plan of the day is in the morning, and the morning is the beginning of a beautiful day. We must insist on going to bed early and getting up early, and cultivate a good work and rest time.
Going to bed earlier can help ensure sleep quality, improve recovery, and reduce stress. At the same time, going to bed early can help the body speed up metabolism and expel waste products from the body.
The habit of waking up early is conducive to maintaining high-quality sleep quality, promoting the normal work of the brain, and can also help people better plan time and reduce stress, reducing the burden on the heart, and also benefiting the health of the body.
Scientifically speaking, the bed should be like this: wake up, lie in bed for 3-5 minutes, and then get up slowly. When people wake up, the beating of the heart will be relatively slow, the blood supply to the whole body is relatively small, the blood vessels of the heart and brain are still in a state of contraction, if you get up immediately, the blood vessels will expand rapidly, which will bring people a feeling of dizziness, and more serious may have a cerebral hemorrhage, which is more dangerous. So generally we should wait 3-5 minutes after waking up before getting up, don't lie in bed and don't get up, once you wake up and lie in bed for a long time, the whole person will feel sleepy again, and it is possible to fall asleep slowly, sleeping too long is not a good thing, it will be easy to make people's minds unclear, thinking is not flexible, and there may also be a headache after sleeping for a long time.
2. Good eating habits
Now our living standards are getting better and better, our diets are getting richer and richer, and what we eat is becoming more and more messy. First of all, we must reduce the intake of high-sugar, high-salt and high-fat foods to reduce the burden on digestion of the stomach and intestines.
Secondly, it is best for us to eat less and more meals, not overeating, eating less and more meals will help the stomach and intestines to digest reasonably, and it is not easy for food to stagnate.
Finally, we should try to eat less supper, eating supper will bring a burden to the body's stomach and intestines, and it is easy to have a backlog, and eating supper is also easy to affect people's sleep quality, and they may not be able to sleep after eating.
3. Conduct regular physical examinations and examinations
Regular physical examination and examination is a very good measure to prevent various diseases, regular examination is conducive to early detection of physical problems, timely timely reasonable and appropriate nutritional supplementation or conditioning of the body.
Fourth, summary
The gallbladder is a digestive organ in our body, and we should always pay attention to the condition of the gallbladder. We should treat ourselves well in life, maintain a reasonable work and rest time, adhere to good eating habits, go to the hospital regularly for physical examinations and examinations, pay attention to our physical fitness, and provide a good guarantee for the prevention of physical diseases.