Many people who have gallstones but no symptoms and do not realize it.
When symptoms occur, the patient may experience pain in the upper right side of the abdomen radiating to the back.
Experienced pain may be severe and accompanied by nausea and vomiting. There are various treatment options that can help ease the pain caused by gallstones.
Here are some tips to ease the pain caused by gallstones:
1. Visit the Health Centres
If you experience pain, gallstones, you can visit the doctor or to the emergency room immediately.
In America, gallstones are the most frequent cause of patients treated in the ER for abdominal pain.
Patients will then undergo a medical examination to eliminate other conditions that cause pain.
Doctors may prescribe drugs that bile salts can dissolve gallstones, or pain medication.
Anti-pain medications will help relieve the pain while you wait for bile salts dissolve gallstones.
2. Warm water baths
In addition to making the body more relaxed, warm bath can also help reduce anxiety and severe pain due to gallstones.
Anxiety can cause abdominal pain can increase the discomfort caused by gallstones.
Warm bath can also help reduce the contractions of the gallbladder that may occur during gallbladder attack.
3. Warm Water Compress
You can compress or put a heating pad on the painful area. Warmth of the heating pad can help the body relax, reduce anxiety, and relieve pain caused by gallstones.
Make sure the heating pad or compress is not too hot so that the skin does not burn it.
4. Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL)
One non-surgical proedur to break up gallstones is extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy.
This procedure uses shock waves to break up gallstones so much easier to pass through the gastrointestinal tract (gut). If gallstones can be removed from the body, then the pain will disappear.
5. Gall Bladder surgery
Patients can also inquire about the possibility of gall bladder surgery.
Often drugs are used to dissolve gallstones ineffective. This happens especially when a large gallstone.
When other treatment options fail, the only other possible alternative is removal of the gallbladder.
Gallbladder surgery can be done with minimally invasive procedures that do not require large incisions so patients do not have to stay in hospital for a long time.
