Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Medical Treatment Options for Cholelithiasis

If you have gallstones, some non-pharmacological interventions to consider are the following:

  • Before eating a meal (especially a fatty one) consider taking a supplement of bile salts derived from an ox to help supplement your possible bile deficiency 
  • If you are a vegetarian and cannot take ox bile, consider taking concentrated beet powder before a meal to enhance natural bile production
  • Stone root supplements have anecdotally been recommended to help dissolve the stones. It is available in pills, tinctures and tea
  • Eat a small amount of saturated fat to prompt the liver to produce bile. Some excellent sources are eggs, some meets, fatty fish and coconut oil
  • Eat lots of vegetables and a low fat diet. 
  • Consider switching to a vegetarian or vegan diet

Ox and calf



Some pharmacological/medical interventions also to be considered if you have symptomatic gall stones are: 
  • Surgical Treatments
    • Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
      • simple removal of whole gallbladder 
    • Open cholecystectomy
      • necessary if there is an infection
  • Medications
    • Over the counter pain medication
    • Bile salt tablets
  • Other
    • Lithotripsy procedure
      • use of ultra sound waves to break up gallstones 

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