Gallbladders and Bile

you are not supposed to take food that are not easily digestible or spicy. you should reduce intake of fats and protein rich food , as now the bile juice is no more produced by your body.

If the pain is persistant and increasing, and later accompnied by fever, nausea, and vomiting, then it is very likely appendicitis. Go to your doctor and get it check out.

While definitely "safer" than egg yolks (which are high in fat and cholesterol), those who suffer from gallbladder issues should avoid eggs completely and consume a different source of protein (beans and rice, tofu).

The intestine

Saliva in the mouth helps to soften food as you chew it. Saliva helps begin the breakdown of foods.

After suffering for years myself, the first thing I would suggest is to remove eggs and coffee out of the diet completely. Pork is also a common culprit. Try to choose lower fat meal options and avoid creamy type foods, like ice-cream or mayonaisse, etc. This should be a good start.

read your book and stop asking for the answers, cheater.

From the glossary of medical terms the answer is: BILIRUBIN

Various authors report different "normal" ranges for the diameter of the common bile duct. The consensus is that most people have a common bile duct diameter of around 5mm, +/- 1 mm. However, there are reports were people with no hepatobilliary disease have a "normal" common bile duct size up to 10 mm. Also, there is a correlation between common bile duct diameter and age. Most physicians would like to check things further if the common bile duct diameter is greater than about 7 mm, particularly if there are symptoms indicating hepatobilliary disease (abdominal pain with or without jaundice, fever etc.). Finally, even "normal" common bile duct sizes do not exclude the possibility of disease (such as stones).

1.7 centimeters

No, there are no enzymes in bile.

Yes, the gallbladder is simple a storage area for bile. The liver produces the bile and stores it in the gallbladder until a fatty meal is comsumed. After a cholecyctectomy, bile produced in the liver travels to the small intestine instead. Diarrhea is often a complications since the bile is continuously draining into the small intestine.

Bile is stored and concentrated in the gallbladder, although it is produced by the liver. Then it goes to the duodenum (part of the small intestine) when it is needed for digesting lipids (fats).

Solidified crystal solids in the gall bladder are "gallstones," "biliary calculi," or "choleliths" : the presence of stones in the gall bladder is called "cholelithiasis". (pronounced "koh-luh-lih-THY-uh-sis")
cholelithiasis

You should be able to return to a normal diet after gallbladder surgery. However, you may want to avoid greasy and spciy foods for awhile.

The gallbladder is attached to the bile duct by a small tube called the cystic duct

One-third of all patients with gallstones never experience a second attack. For this reason many doctors advise watchful waiting after the first episode. Reducing the amount of fat in the diet or following a sensible plan of gradual weight loss

Bile is an important player in the digestive system largely because it helps to digest fats. In the gut, fats exist as relatively large globs that cannot be absorbed. To prepare fats for absorption, they must first be broken down into their component parts. An enzyme called lipase ("lip-", fat; "-ase", break down) is capable of breaking down the large fat globs. However, lipase acting by itself would be very inefficient because these large fat globs have a very low surface area-to-volume ratio. This means that the globs have a lot of fat in them, but not much surface for lipase to work on. Lipase can only act efficiently on fat globs with high surface area-to-volume ratios.

This is where bile comes in. The major players in bile that help achieve a high surface area-to-volume ratio are called bile salts. Bile salts are amphipathic -- they have both water-soluble (hydrophilic) and water-insoluble (hydrophobic) regions. The water-soluble regions are repelled from fats, but the water-insoluble regions are strongly attracted to fats in the gut. This arrangement allows bile salts to associated with one part of the fat glob and then cause the region nearby to break off. Bile salts do this by forming a spherical structure around globs of fat in the gut; this spherical structure (in combination with a few other proteins that get added to it) is called a micelle. By forming micelles, bile salts break up (or emulsify) large fat particles into smaller ones. The proteins associated with the micelle also attract the digestive enzyme lipase, which breaks down the fats inside the micelle into their component parts for absorption in the gut.

If you have normal anatomy you shouldn't have many side effects. This is one of the most common surgeries performed. Maybe a tad of swelling at the incision sites, maybe a bit of trapped air in the abdomen that your body will absorb in its own within a few days. There are a lot of "possible complications" but none are too common. If you are having an open gallbladder procedure, then disregard these comments, you don't have normal anatomy and the side effects/possible complications are far more. An open procedure has become a rare event nowadays. Even some very difficult ones can be done laparoscopically.

-not an MD but have 15+ years experience in assisting in surgery

Via the bile duct near the stomach end of the small intestine.

Better answer, it enters the first part of the sm. intestine the Duodenum

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fats or lipids fats or lipids

In some cases, the operation can be delayed until after childbirth, however complications may develop as a result of the gallbladder disease and urgent surgery is needed. There is no direct harm to the fetus, however there is certainly an increased chance of preterm labor. Any operation should be done after the first trimester. Hopefully I helped you out a bit Stacey After five months of what was thought to be "morning sickness", I wound up in the hospital with gall stones after collapsing one night on the bathroom floor. The stones were aggravating the wall and the docs feared pancreatitis as well. I had the laproscopic surgery done three days later at 20 weeks of pregnancy and all went well. The day of surgery was hardly a cake walk, but within 24 hours I felt completely normal again. Our beautiful daughter was born 4 months later with no complications. However, as her teeth started to emerge, it became apparent something was not right. Initial dental visits speculated some sort of antibiotic interaction. After another two pediatric dentists reviewed the case, it's generally believed that the antibiotics administered to me during and after surgery may have affected the baby teeth (she had never had a massive dose or continual doses of antibiotics for herself). She is now almost four years old and we're faced with oral surgery in two weeks to cap 8 molars and cosmetically cap the four front top teeth. She was born with approximately 1/3 of her tooth enamel. We won't know if there was any damage to her adult teeth until they come in, but it's likely they're fine.

They are made by the liver and are stored in the gall bladder. They help breakdown fats into smaller lipids.