HEALTH WATCH: HOW TO REMOVE GALLSTONES NATURALLY

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What are Gallstones? Gallstones are hard, pebble-like deposits that form inside the gallbladder. Gallstones may be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a golf ball.

 What are the causes of gallstones? The cause of gallstones varies. There are two main types of gallstones:

• Stones made out of cholesterol. Gallstones made out of cholesterol are by far the most common type. Cholesterol gallstones have nothing to do with the cholesterol levels in the blood.
• Stones made from too much bilirubin in the bile. Bile is a liquid made in the liver that helps the body digest fats. Bile is made up of water, cholesterol, bile salts, and other chemicals, such as bilirubin. Such stones are called pigment stones.

What are the symptoms?  A gallstone attack can be very painful.  Pain can occur in the upper right part of the abdomen under the ribs. Usually it appears suddenly, sometimes an hour or two after eating a fatty meal. Fat in food signals the gallbladder to contract and squirt bile into the small intestine. If there are stones in the gallbladder or ducts, contraction may cause pain.

• Pain may get worse quickly, and then last for several hours.
• Pain may extend, or radiate, to the back between the shoulder blades or under the right shoulder. Inhaling deeply, or moving, often makes the pain worse.

Along with the pain there may be other symptoms, including the following.

• Nausea
• Vomiting
• A bloated sensation in the abdomen
• Gassiness, with belching and passing of intestinal gas
• Indigestion
• Clay-colored stools
• Jaundice, a yellowish color in the skin or whites of the eyes
• Chills, sweating, and fever

Many people who have a gallstone attack recall similar but less severe symptoms that occurred in the past, but disappeared. Those probably were due to small gallstones that lodged briefly in the ducts and then passed into the small intestine.---Louvie Baldonado