In recent years, with the development of color ultrasound technology, more and more people are found to have gallbladder polyps, and many of them are found through physical examinations without how symptoms, and the incidence of gallbladder polyps in the country is reported to be 4.5% to 8.7%. So what kind of people are prone to gallbladder polyps? How are gallbladder polyps formed? Can gallbladder polyps become cancerous? What should I do if I find gallbladder polyps? Can gallbladder polyps disappear through diet? The following is to give you some knowledge about this. What kind of people are prone to get gallbladder polyps? 1, people with bad habits of life and diet: today’s society is more stressful life and work, some people often stay up late, often irritable, emotional depression, some people do not eat breakfast and rarely eat breakfast, often drink or even often drunk, often eat a lot of greasy food, high cholesterol food, often order take-out, eat fast food and overeating and so on. These bad habits of life and diet will greatly improve the chances of gallbladder polyps. 2, people with a family history of heredity: the occurrence of gallbladder polyps family heredity also has a certain relationship. If someone in the family suffers from gallbladder polyps, then the chances of their offspring having gallbladder polyps are significantly higher than others. 3, obese people: obese people are prone to a number of diseases, gallbladder polyps is one of the more common. According to research, obese people have high cholesterol in their bodies, and if this cholesterol stays in the body for a long time, it is possible to make the gallbladder wall deposits, leading to the occurrence of gallbladder polyps. 4, people with hyperlipidemia: hyperlipidemia occurs in the main mechanism of gallbladder polyps is the abnormal metabolism of lipids in the bile, especially the metabolism of cholesterol is impaired. It is now believed that the low level of high-density cholesterol is one of the important risk factors for gallbladder polyps. 5, people with hepatitis B virus infection: clinical research found that hepatitis B virus infection is one of the very important independent risk factors in the development of gallbladder polyps. During the acute hepatitis period, abnormalities such as thickening of the gallbladder wall, changes in bile composition and changes in gallbladder volume may occur, resulting in the contraction and diastolic function of the gallbladder being affected. 6, people with diabetes: type 2 diabetes is considered one of the independent risk factors for gallbladder polyps in recent years, and the serum total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels of patients are significantly higher than those of non-diabetic patients, thus largely increasing the incidence of gallbladder polyps. How do gallbladder polyps develop? Gallbladder polyps, also known as gallbladder polypoid lesions, is a general term for raised lesions of the mucosa of the gallbladder that encompasses different types of lesions. The common ones are cholesterol polyps, gallbladder adenomatous hyperplasia, inflammatory polyps and gallbladder adenomas. The reasons for the formation of different types of gallbladder polyps vary. 1, cholesterol polyps: cholesterol-like polyps formed mainly with abnormal lipid metabolism in the bile, especially cholesterol metabolism disorders. Bile is mainly composed of bile salts, cholesterol and lecithin. Under physiological condition, bile salts, cholesterol and lecithin are dissolved in bile in a certain ratio. When the normal balance of the three is changed or under some pathological conditions of the biliary system, cholesterol in supersaturated bile is actively and passively transported to the cytoplasm of the epithelial cells of the gallbladder mucosa and phagocytosed by macrophages. The accumulation of large amounts of lipids in macrophages makes them larger and slower to migrate, eventually becoming foam cells. The foam cells cannot pass through the epithelial cell gap of the lymphatic ducts because of their excessive size and poor deformation ability, or the lumen of the lymphatic ducts is blocked by foam cells, resulting in the destruction of the tubular structure and causing the accumulation of submucosal foam cells. When foam cells accumulate a lot, they induce reactive proliferation of tissue cells and form foam-like cells after phagocytosis. 2, gallbladder adenomyomatosis: adenomyomatous hyperplasia of the gallbladder, also known as adenomyomatous hyperplasia, is the result of excessive hyperplasia of a tissue component of the gallbladder wall, which is different from the lesion of scar tissue proliferation caused by inflammation and does not have the destructive tendency of tumors. (2) abnormal contraction of the muscles of the gallbladder wall leads to an increase in the pressure of the lumen. Gallbladder adenoma: Gallbladder adenoma is a common benign tumor of the gallbladder, and it is believed that chronic inflammation and gallbladder stones are closely related to the occurrence of gallbladder adenoma. The cause is mainly gallbladder stones and long-term recurrent chronic inflammation. Due to long-term chronic inflammatory stimulation and mechanical damage by stones, the mucosal epithelium of gallbladder appears more obvious proliferation of fibrous connective tissue, blood vessels and epithelial cells, glands and parenchymal cells in the process of repeated wear, regeneration and repair to replace the damaged tissue. The persistence of stimulating factors can cause the proliferation of fibrous connective tissue with scar formation, which eventually causes the proliferation to protrude into the gallbladder lumen to form polyps. 4.Inflammatory polyp: this kind of gallbladder polyp is mainly the local tissue hyperplasia formed during the recurrent attacks of cholecystitis, which is clinically characterized by most of the combined gallbladder stones and chronic cholecystitis. Can gallbladder polyps become cancerous? Generally speaking, adenomatous polyps can develop into gallbladder cancer, while inflammatory polyps and cholesterol polyps, in general, do not become cancerous. It is still controversial whether adenomyosis increases the risk of gallbladder cancer, and even if it does, the degree of increase is very low, not more than 2 times of the average risk. Polyp size is the most useful predictor of malignancy, and polyps larger than 2 cm are generally almost always malignant, and many times the cancer is advanced. Studies have found that the incidence of cancer ranges from 43% to 77% in polyps larger than 1 cm, while 100% of polyps larger than 2 cm are cancerous. Age is another risk factor, and studies have shown that patients over the age of 50 to 60 have a higher risk of developing malignant polyps. What should I do if I find a gallbladder polyp? First of all, it is not scary to find out that you have gallbladder polyps, so don’t be overly nervous. You can consult a professional doctor, for high-risk polyps should be promptly surgical treatment, you can get a good treatment effect. 1, which cases need surgery The widely used indications for surgery are polyps larger than 10 mm in diameter or gallbladder polyps with gallbladder stones. For lesions smaller than 10 mm other risk factors should be taken into account, such as age older than 50 years, growth over the years, and polyps with a wide basal or non-tip morphology. So whether gallbladder polyps are found to need surgical treatment, patients need to visit general surgery, hepatobiliary surgery or oncology surgery to get treatment advice from professional doctors. 2, regular review is important Ultrasound examination is the main means to find and confirm the diagnosis of gallbladder polyps, and is also the main method of follow-up review. For gallbladder polyps of 5-10 mm that do not require surgery, ultrasound needs to be checked every 6 months at the beginning, and then it can be reviewed once a year. If the growth of gallbladder polyps is found to be more than 2 mm per year, surgery is recommended. For gallbladder polyps less than 5 mm, especially multiple polyps, an annual ultrasound is sufficient. Can I shrink gallbladder polyps and make them disappear through diet? Once formed, it is impossible to shrink or disappear the polyps through diet. However, the development of polyps and their malignant changes can be controlled by diet. Diet needs to pay attention to the following aspects: 1, limit alcohol consumption: alcohol in the body mainly through the liver decomposition, so alcohol hurts the liver, causing liver dysfunction, so that the secretion and excretion of bile disorder, stimulating the gallbladder to form new polyps or the original polyps grow, increasing the possibility of gallbladder polyps cancer. 2, regular diet: eat a good breakfast, regular diet is extremely important for patients with gallbladder polyps. The human liver secretes bile, bile is stored in the gallbladder, and the function of bile is mainly to digest oily food, if you do not eat breakfast, the bile secreted at night can not be used, stored in the gallbladder, bile retention time is too long, you can stimulate the gallbladder to form polyps or make the original polyps increase, so it is best to eat foods containing vegetable oil for breakfast. 3, low-fat diet: too much cholesterol intake can increase the burden on the liver and cause excess cholesterol in the gallbladder wall crystallization, accumulation and precipitation, thus forming polyps. So you should avoid high cholesterol food, such as: eggs, fatty meat, seafood, fish without scales, animal offal and other foods.