Information for patients with gallstone disease during the holidays

  Spring Festival and other holidays, is a good time for the reunion of relatives, friends, or a long goodbye, or a thousand miles to meet, or a small goodbye reunion, or share the joy, set up a banquet, drink, raise a glass to celebrate, it is inevitable that people. However, for gallstone patients must pay extra attention, otherwise, the lighter to people have brought unhappiness, the more serious can lead to tragedy.  Improper diet of gallstone patients can induce biliary colic, acute cholecystitis, acute cholangitis, acute pancreatitis and other complications, abdominal pain and distension, nausea and vomiting, chills and fever, yellowing of the skin and sclera, yellow urine, abdominal pressure pain, etc. Serious cases can appear shock, and even life-threatening. According to our clinical observation, the number of gallstone patients with acute onset and the above complications during holidays has increased significantly, and some patients have to undergo emergency surgery. In order to make gallstone patients spend the holidays smoothly, we suggest the following.  First, hunger and satiety should be moderate. During holidays, either because of socializing or for leisure, life rules are often broken, and there are many people who do not eat breakfast or do not have breakfast in time.  Second, control the intake of high fat, especially animal fat, as well as high cholesterol and alcohol. Under normal circumstances, bile is secreted and excreted into the intestine under the precise regulation of the neuroendocrine system to promote the digestion and absorption of fat and other foods, and the gallbladder plays an important regulatory role in the excretion of bile. Excessive intake of fats, especially animal fats, has a great demand on bile, and excessive secretion and excretion of bile can easily cause biliary colic. A large amount of alcohol, on the one hand, plus the burden on the liver, on the other hand, can cause liver damage, may also cause bile secretion and excretion regulation disorder, damage to the pancreas, activation of pancreatic enzymes, inducing pancreatitis.  Third, manage the quantity and quality of dinner night snacks. The majority of acute episodes of gallstone disease occur at night, which is related to the different sympathetic and parasympathetic excitation and inhibition in the human body during the day and night. Therefore, patients with gallstone disease should not eat too much at night, especially too oily, should be less, light appropriate.  Fourth, more right-sided lying position. The gallbladder is attached to the right lobe of the liver and is divided into four parts: the duct, neck, body and bottom, the duct is long and small, the body and bottom of the gallbladder are wide. The opposite is true for the left-sided position, where stones are easily excreted into the cystic duct and biliary colic and acute cholecystitis occur.  Fifth, keep the bowels open. Anatomically the biliary system and the intestinal tract are connected, and functionally they complement each other and pathologically they affect each other. The smoothness of the stool is conducive to the body’s digestion and absorption and excretion of waste, and the normal secretion and excretion of bile, Chinese medicine has the so-called “big river through, small river smooth” theory, which means that the intestinal tract is smooth, the biliary tract is also smooth meaning.  Another point worth mentioning is that if abdominal discomfort occurs, seek medical attention in a timely manner to avoid delaying the treatment of the disease.  Although there are many other areas that should be noted, as long as the above points are achieved, gallstone patients do not need to worry about the holidays.