The bending of the gallbladder is a pathology of its normal anatomical structure. It can be congenital or acquired. In medical practice, this condition is also known as constriction and occurs in both infants and men and women.
In a healthy, normal state, it has a pear-shaped shape. The formation of a bend is considered a fairly common pathology, which provokes the occurrence of many functional failures in its work, as well as in the entire digestive tract.
Despite the fact that constriction is an abnormal condition and not a disease, this does not mean that it cannot be treated. Qualified medical care helps restore the normal functioning of the bile ducts and digestive system.
Functions of the gallbladder
The gallbladder is a direct participant in the digestion process. It is connected to the liver by bile ducts. It is entrusted with the function of accumulating and dosed release of bile into the stomach cavity to process incoming food. Bile enters the organ from the liver.
The gallbladder itself is hollow inside, consisting of many ducts. Its shape is similar to a pear and conditionally consists of a body, bottom and neck. As bile enters, the muscle walls contract and bile flows freely into the stomach cavity. If a bend in the gallbladder is formed, then the normal and free flow of bile is impaired. The ultrasound method shows exactly where the deformation occurs, most often this is the area between the bottom and the body or in the area of the neck and body. This change greatly changes the contours of the organ when examined.
Diet and gymnastics for inflected gallbladder
If the gallbladder is bent, gastroenterologists recommend eating small portions, but often, every 4 hours. It is necessary to exclude fried, smoked, spicy, as well as beans and spices from the diet. It is also better to avoid canned food and fast food. Carbonated drinks and alcohol, dried fruits, chocolate, coffee, cocoa, black tea, as well as anything that contains a large amount of sugar: honey, jam, sweets, are recommended to be excluded.
Oils (corn, olive, sunflower) help thin the bile, and the polyunsaturated fatty acids contained in the oil strengthen the walls of the gallbladder. Food should contain as little fat as possible, as it impedes the flow of bile. Therefore, you will have to forget about cream cakes, shish kebab, red fish and cream. Fresh herbs are useful: dill, parsley, spinach, lettuce, celery.
It is allowed to eat pasta, cereals, beef, chicken, turkey, lean steamed fish, soups without rich broths, vegetables, non-acidic fruits, low-fat fermented milk products, refined vegetable oil. It is better to cook meat and vegetables separately.
At the first signs of improvement, you don’t need to immediately rush to extremes and eat everything you shouldn’t. If you have a congenital abnormality of the gallbladder, you will have to adhere to certain dietary rules throughout your life. Simple gymnastics will help improve the flow of bile, as well as blood supply to organs. It is useful both as a treatment and as a preventative measure. The following exercises can be recommended:
- Lie on your stomach, place your arms along your torso, and place your toes on the floor. Then exhale slowly and lift your head, chest, and legs off the floor.
- Stay in this position for a short time and then relax again. Perform 5-6 times.
- Lie on your back, stretch your arms behind your head.
- Lift your legs a little off the floor and freeze for a few seconds, then raise your legs a little higher and freeze again. Try not to hold your breath during this exercise.
Non-abdominal exercises will help strengthen your abdominal muscles and restore the functioning of your gallbladder. However, it is important to observe moderation. Extensive physical activity is undesirable.
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Reasons for bending
An adult can live quite a long time and not know that he has a bent gallbladder. This is a congenital form, which is an anomaly of intrauterine development and does not manifest itself for a long time. It is possible that this condition will never cause dyskinesia or other digestive problems. There are usually no symptoms for this condition.
The causes of a bent or kinked gallbladder can be lifting heavy objects, strenuous exercise, or rather sudden movements. This condition does not last long and the organ restores its previous outline and shape after some time.
In older people, bending occurs due to prolapse of internal organs and weakness of the muscle corset. The gallbladder can twist around its axis more than once.
Many concomitant diseases cause the bending of the gallbladder: cholecystitis, adhesions in the organ and stones, stagnation of bile.
Treatment methods
Treatment of gallbladder kinks by specialists is always comprehensive.
The doctor may prescribe Motilium, which comes in tablet form. This drug improves intestinal motility and also stimulates the motor ability of the bladder. The drug is usually prescribed in a dosage of three tablets per day, which must be taken before meals.
To prevent thickening of bile, patients are recommended to use drugs based on bear bile, such as Ursosan and Ursofalk.
In addition to drug therapy, the patient is prescribed herbal infusions prepared from medicinal plants, the so-called traditional methods. Among these, decoctions of corn silk, immortelle, peppermint, and yarrow have proven themselves to be the best.
We invite you to familiarize yourself with one effective remedy prepared from medicinal herbs:
- You will need two parts of the crushed leaf part of mint, centaury, three parts of immortelle inflorescences, four parts of chamomile flowers, dry leaves of the trifoliate and the same amount of the root part of coltsfoot, as well as eight portions of St. John's wort.
- Mix all the herbs, take a small spoon of the mixture and pour boiling water over it.
- Infuse in a dark place for an hour; the broth must be well wrapped.
- Filter and drink 250 ml before meals.
After the disease goes into remission, you can engage in physical exercise. Gymnastics for bending the gallbladder should be performed without sudden movements. Exercise with weights or barbells should also not be included in the health complex.
There are a number of special exercises based on proper breathing. It is useful to perform such gymnastics for patients with various anomalies of internal organs. Specifically, when the bladder is bent, the respiratory complex copes well with the stagnation of bile, and also strengthens the walls of the organ.
Bee products are used for many gallbladder diseases. For example, you can eat beebread and/or pollen collected from plants. Such remedies are taken on an empty stomach in the morning, about half an hour before breakfast, at lunch and before dinner.
To improve intestinal motility, you can eat raw vegetables or fruits on an empty stomach (in the absence of contraindications). It is useful to eat supplements containing apple, pumpkin or beet pectins.
Conclusion:
As can be seen from the description, it is possible to cure the inflection of the bubble. Health-improving physical education, a special diet, folk remedies and well-structured therapy will help with this. Compliance with all of the listed methods and methods will help a person gain health.
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Symptoms
A bent gallbladder causes the following symptoms:
- Nausea.
- Decreased appetite or complete aversion to food.
- Pain and heaviness in the epigastric region.
- Tension in the abdominal wall.
- Bitter taste in the mouth.
- Weakness, increased sweating.
- Pale skin.
- Temperature increase.
- Constipation or diarrhea.
The reasons that contributed to the development of the disease can greatly influence the symptoms of manifestation. You will definitely need medical help and treatment. Patients may experience shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, and drooling.
Severe pain is localized in the right hypochondrium; it can radiate to the subclavian, retrosternal and scapular region, sometimes to the spine.
During an inflammatory process in the organ, it may also become bent, then blood circulation throughout the gallbladder is disrupted and the symptoms that appear will already indicate a deterioration in the condition of the body as a whole. The patient has pale skin, a face with a gray tint, increased sweating and increased weakness. Deformation of the organ neck will cause severe pain in the entire abdomen or only in the left hypochondrium. In this case, the symptoms are expressed by fever, loss of strength and flatulence after eating.
If you notice similar symptoms, you should immediately seek help from a doctor. You cannot start drug treatment on your own or use folk remedies on the advice of friends without consulting a specialist. There is a great danger of necrosis of areas of the neck of the gallbladder, which threatens the entry of bile into the abdominal cavity.
Diagnostics
In order to make a final diagnosis and determine the location of the pathology, instrumental examinations will be required. Before their appointment, a primary diagnosis is carried out, which includes:
- conducting a detailed survey of the patient regarding the presence and severity of characteristic symptoms;
- the clinician’s examination of the life history and medical history of not only the patient, but also his relatives - this is necessary to identify the final cause of the disease;
- performing a physical examination, which necessarily includes examination of the skin and palpation of the anterior wall of the abdominal cavity.
Laboratory tests of blood, urine and feces do not have much diagnostic value, but they may indicate the development of complications.
The basis of instrumental diagnostics is ultrasound of the abdominal cavity. This procedure is carried out in several stages:
- the first one is carried out strictly on an empty stomach;
- the second is performed thirty minutes after a choleretic breakfast, but choleretic medicinal substances can be used for such purposes. A repeated procedure will help determine the nature of the disease. If such a disease is a congenital pathology, then after breakfast or taking medications, the volume of this organ will not change. If the disease is acquired, then its size is significantly reduced, but not more than 40%.
Treatment
Long-term treatment will be required with constant consultation with a specialist and monitoring of changes in the organ. The patient will need endurance and patience. The doctor will prescribe medications and recommend products on which the diet will be based.
The choice of therapy method is always selected taking into account the patient’s condition and the course of the disease. First of all, they relieve inflammation in the organ and normalize the free flow of bile.
You will need to take choleretic drugs. They are taken in courses usually lasting 2 weeks. The drug Odeston increases the rate of removal of accumulated bile and eliminates spasm of the bile ducts of the organ. The beneficial properties of sandy immortelle were used to create the drug Flamin. Treatment occurs due to its choleretic effect.
Diet is most important for diseases of the digestive system. The right diet produces lasting improvements. It is recommended to eat in small portions and at certain times to ensure regular emptying of the gallbladder.
The diet excludes fried and smoked foods, foods rich in animal fat and easily digestible carbohydrates. Alcohol, carbonated drinks, chocolate, spicy foods and egg yolk are prohibited.
Only after consulting a doctor can you resort to treatment with folk remedies. If you follow a diet and proper nutrition for an illness, then taking decoctions of medicinal herbs and healing infusions help speed up recovery and normalize the patient’s condition much faster. They use valuable substances that contain calendula, chamomile, yarrow, peppermint and tansy. Corn silk has a particularly good effect.
The patient should remember that folk remedies cannot cure the disease; they only have a supportive effect.
Diet, exercise therapy, medicinal herbs, healthy nutrition and physical therapy are used to treat gallbladder bending.
Diet food
The patient must understand the following: the more carefully he follows the doctor’s recommendations and the stricter he is in taking preventive measures, the faster the disease will be cured. To do this, first of all, it is necessary to establish the norm and composition of nutrition. Diet is the key to successful treatment.
You will have to exclude from the diet:
- dishes containing fats, especially of animal origin;
- spicy snacks and condiments;
- sour types of foods (sour berries and fruits);
- legumes;
- sweets;
- carbonated drinks;
- confectionery.
You can eat:
- baked, boiled or steamed vegetables;
- non-acidic fruits and berries;
- various cereal products;
- all types of fermented milk products with a small percentage of fat content;
- lean fish and meat prepared by any method other than frying.
You can eat, or rather, it is healthy to eat pumpkin in boiled and even raw form. You can drink pumpkin juice in the amount of one and a half liters per day. This pumpkin diet allows you to improve the flow of bile and tone the bladder muscles.
A person should know that eating cold food, as well as salty foods, can cause the disease to worsen.
It should also be noted that a salt-free diet has a beneficial effect on the body not only with this disease.
The diet for illness is structured in such a way that a person can get all the nutrients necessary for the body.
It is also important to maintain a water regime, and for this a person needs to drink at least 1.5 liters of water per day every day. An insufficient amount of fluid leads to thickening of the bile, and this is unacceptable if the bladder is bent.
Consequences
Pathological changes in an organ can affect a person’s health and aggravate his condition. If the gallbladder is not emptied in a timely manner, there is a high risk of stone formation. The body's metabolism may become unbalanced.
The causes of acquired bending of the gallbladder may be different, but the treatment is the same and is aimed at eliminating the pathology. It is important to be under the constant supervision of your doctor, follow the recommended diet and not refuse to use medicinal herbs.
Author : Svetlana Nikolaevna Golubeva, especially for the site Zhkt.ru
