I am diagnosed with Gallbladder stones in my routine check-up!!

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Dr. Ashish Vashistha –  Best Gallbladder Surgeon in Delhi

I am diagnosed with Gallbladder stones in my routine check-up!! 

Dr. Ashish Vashistha is the Best Gallbladder Surgeon in Delhi, a Senior Robotic laparoscopic surgeon who is HOD Department of Surgery and Robotics Max Super Specialty Hospital, Saket Delhi, Explains about routine check up after gallbladder stone surgery.

 

What should I do??

 

Dr Ashish Vashistha, Best Gallbladder Surgeon in Delhi, tells us all about Gallbladder stone formation , symptoms and their management –

 

Dr Vashistha also shares insights on symptoms of gallbladder stones complications-

 

  1. What are gallbladder stones? 

Gallbladder stones are concentrated pieces of bile and they vary in size and number.

Gallbladder stones are also known as Cholelithiasis. Chole means bile and lithiasis means stones.

 

Dr Ashish Vashistha, Best Gallbladder surgeon in Delhi, tells us about Symptoms & Causes:-

 

           2.    What symptoms do gallbladder stones cause?


Gallbladder stones may not cause any symptoms and a lot of people will not come to know about them till they come for a routine examination and get an ultrasound abdomen.

 

Gallbladder stones can be symptomatic as well.

 

–          Pain in upper abdomen or chest and sometimes radiating to back or shoulder.

–          Pain generally increases after fatty meals and binging on alcohol.

–          This pain can be due to gallbladder contracting and stone pushing in the bile duct.

–          Sometimes pain keeps increasing in severity and then fades away and this is biliary colic.

–          You can experience vomiting and flatulence as well.

 

Dr Ashish Vashistha, Best Gallbladder surgeon in Delhi, tells us about Symptoms which Alarms :-

 

            3.    What symptoms are alarming?


      ·         Severe pain

      ·         Sweating

      ·         Yellow color skin

      ·         Vomiting

      ·         Abdominal distension

      ·         Fainting

 

All these symptoms can be because of gallstones slipping into the bile duct and causing a very dangerous condition – PANCREATITIS.

 

So when you are diagnosed with Gallbladder stones, please see a surgeon and he will advise you on LAPAROSCOPIC / ROBOTIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY as SURGERY IS THE ONLY ANSWER TO GALLSTONES DISEASE.