Experts point out that the typical symptoms of gallstones are pain in the right upper abdomen, bloating, indigestion, nausea, etc. Some people will experience radiating pain in the back or right shoulder. However, some patients with gallstones have atypical symptoms or no symptoms at all, so many people treat them as stomach problems. In fact, if you go to the hospital to do an ultrasound examination, most of them can be clearly diagnosed. At present, there are various methods of gallstones treatment, most of which have good results. A. Gallstones without symptoms also need to be treated Do gallstones without symptoms need to be treated? Experts say that early treatment is needed because the occurrence of gallstones indicates that there are already problems with bile metabolism, and if left unattended, more lesions may appear. There are many treatment methods for gallstones, currently commonly used are drug lithotripsy and surgery. Experts remind that the exact treatment method to be adopted needs to be determined by the patient’s specific situation. In the case of asymptomatic cholesterol stones with a diameter of less than 1 cm, drug lithotripsy may be considered. The principle of lithotripsy is to increase the bile acids in the body to dissolve the stones in the gallbladder and bile ducts, and then allow them to be excreted in the intestines with bile and finally in the feces. Surgery is required for patients with symptomatic gallstones and cholecystitis, asymptomatic gallstones with calcification of the gallbladder wall or bile, or cholecystogram showing non-functional gallbladder, diabetic patients or those with cardiopulmonary dysfunction, patients with a history of pancreatitis, patients over 50 years old, and patients with stones larger than 3 cm. At present, the surgical treatment of gallstones mainly adopts minimally invasive laparoscopic cholecystectomy, which only requires poking 3 to 4 small holes in the human abdominal wall to complete the surgery, which is less traumatic, faster recovery, less interference with the human body and fewer postoperative complications, and has become the “gold standard” for the treatment of gallbladder stones today. When undergoing surgical treatment, many patients often worry about whether the gallbladder will affect their digestive function after removal. The main function of the gallbladder is to concentrate, store and empty the bile, and after the removal of the gallbladder, these functions will be gradually replaced by the bile duct, which will have less impact on the digestive function. In addition, the function of the gallbladder in the disease state will continue to fade or even disappear, and not removing it as soon as possible will only lead to more complications. As for the extracorporeal lithotripsy treatment method, it is currently considered undesirable because the movement of the bile duct is not continuous and the movement is small, making it difficult to remove the stones and easily causing obstruction of the common bile duct or complicating pancreatitis, so patients should try to avoid such therapy.