Treatment of cholecystitis with drugs and folk remedies

Among chronic diseases one of the first places is cholecystitis. This diagnosis is put by the doctor so often that this ailment is sometimes completely ignored. But what it is, we begin to really understand only at the moment of exacerbation. However, most of us make the mistake of trying to immediately start treatment for cholecystitis with drugs. This disease is treated quite difficult, most often the condition is only slightly stabilized, but without a special diet unpleasant symptoms will return in a few days. Therefore, it is extremely important to consistently adhere to a healthy diet, avoid alcohol and stressful situations. Then treatment of cholecystitis with drugs may not be required.

What is cholecystitis?

It is an inflammatory disease of the gallbladder, and the cause of its appearance is most often the vital activity of the colony of bacteria. At first glance, everything is simple, you need to take an antibacterial drug, and everything will be fine again. However, before you go to the pharmacy and ask the pharmacist to pick up for you the treatment of cholecystitis with medications, it is not bad to understand the causes of this disease, its etiology and flow characteristics. There are many subtle moments in which it is difficult to understand without medical education.

The mechanism of development

The main reason, as we have already noted, is microorganisms. That is, all the same streptococci and staphylococci, Pseudomonas aeruginosa or Proteus (as well as shigella, typhoid stick, sometimes various fungi, etc.) fall into the cholus from the intestine, where they are in small numbers even in a perfectly healthy person. This is the usual contact path. In addition, they can get with a current of blood and lymph from any source of inflammation, be it caries, tonsillitis or pyelonephritis. Therefore, the treatment of cholecystitis with drugs is not always the correct scheme. Antibiotics, of course, will defeat the colony of microorganisms in the gallbladder, but they will be replaced by other of the surviving chronic foci. Therefore, this problem must be treated in a comprehensive manner.

How can cholecystitis occur?

Before starting treatment, it is necessary to know what you are dealing with, whether a person has chronic cholecystitis. Symptoms and treatment - this is what a professional gastroenterologist should understand. Therefore, do not fret yourself with hopes that you can buy a magic pill in the pharmacy and forget about the problem. The fact is that the symptoms of cholecystitis skillfully disguised as dozens of other diseases.

The patient may complain of chest pain, palpitations, emotional lability. Neuropathologists are treated by dozens of patients with complaints of dizziness and headache, sweating, which can also be the cause of this disease. A little closer are gastrointestinal symptoms, which also do not always directly indicate cholecystitis. It can be causeless nausea and vomiting, frequent heartburn, bloating. Finally, this disease can provoke allergic reactions. As you can see, even a therapist can not always easily determine the cause and make a diagnosis - cholecystitis. Treatment - drugs, special diet and folk remedies - gives good results, but only if the scheme is matched correctly.

Catalysts of disease development

Sometimes the prerequisite for its occurrence is a person for many years in a row, but at the same time one or several factors are added and the rapid development of the disease begins. To us to represent the picture in its entirety, it is necessary to disassemble in detail how chronic cholecystitis is born. Symptoms and treatment, we will consider for informational purposes, this does not replace the campaign to the doctor. Low physical activity and irregular or too abundant nutrition contribute to the appearance of problems. In addition, among the predisposing factors can be identified excess weight and intestinal dysbiosis, constipation.

How does cholecystitis develop?

The process is not too fast. Usually the pathogenic flora enters the gallbladder and promotes the development of inflammation of its membrane. If at the first stages it can manifest itself in slight discomfort, then the disease will only progress. Inflammatory process passes to deeper layers, submucosal, and then muscular. In the affected area, connective tissue grows, which deforms the gallbladder. Bile begins to thicken, that is, prerequisites for the formation of stones arise. With a strong decrease in immunity, serious errors in the diet and constant stress, acute cholecystitis may develop. Symptoms, treatment and peculiarities of percolation will be considered later.

Symptoms

If you happen to encounter this disease, then prepare for the fact that there is an endless chain of remissions and exacerbations. And, the more carefully you monitor the diet, the less chance that the aggravation of cholecystitis will develop. Treatment of the disease in the stage of remission is not carried out. The main symptom of chronic cholecystitis is pain. It is often localized in the right hypochondrium, and it can be different. In some, it is constant, but weakly expressed, most often aching. If, on the contrary, the tone of the gallbladder is increased, the pain is manifested by attacks, it is cramping, very intense. Most often the cause is food errors, fried and fatty foods, alcoholic beverages.

Patients tend to complain of feelings of bitterness in the mouth, especially at night and in the morning. They are tormented bitter eructations, sometimes it is accompanied by vomiting. In addition, frequent symptoms include digestive problems, skin itch, fever up to 38 degrees during exacerbations. In addition, fatigue and irritability are characteristic.

Treatment

Methods for treating cholecystitis have been known for a long time, the most popular and recognized among physicians-gastroenterologists is dietotherapy. Smooth acute symptoms will allow a hunger strike for a few days. Then you should gradually introduce into the diet broths and mashed purees, porridges. Gradually, you must go to the full table of diet number 5. Such a diet should be observed constantly. Even on holidays, one should not deviate too much from it so as not to cause an aggravation. It should be noted that effective treatment of cholecystitis is possible only with proper nutrition.

Basic principles of nutrition

Forget about the lack of breakfast and a plentiful supper, there is a need at least five times a day, little by little. You can eat only freshly prepared food, in a warm form. A full-fledged, varied diet is required, and its basis should be dishes cooked for a couple, or cooked. Baked products are allowed. Categorically prohibited alcohol. With the chronic form of the disease, it is easy enough to keep the condition in order, you need to adhere to the above principles of healthy nutrition, and if there is discomfort for a few days, go to a lightweight or completely on the drinking regime.

The main treatment for cholecystitis

If the patient comes with severe pain, then first of all the doctor should take care of her cupping. Such complaints are not uncommon if you are diagnosed with cholecystitis. Symptoms (treatment should be under the supervision of an experienced physician) may differ in intensity, and depending on this, either a traditional No-shpa, 2 tablets three times a day or, if pain is severe, a more effective drug called "Duspatalin." Unlike drotaverina, its active substance acts more directed to the focus of pain.

Removal of the inflammatory process

Here, the choice of drugs will depend on the patient's condition. Stronger antibiotics treat acute cholecystitis. Symptoms (treatment at first will be aimed specifically at the removal of acute symptoms) primarily manifested in increased pain, spasms and severe swelling. The choice of gastroenterologists is usually ciprofloxacin and amoxicillin. The drugs are fairly sparing, because as an extra burden on the liver with this disease is completely useless. Once again, we emphasize that it is especially important to prescribe antibiotics if we are talking about acute cholecystitis. Symptoms, the treatment of which requires urgent measures, is severe pain, nausea and vomiting, fever, chills and stool and gas retention. We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the acute form is treated quite efficiently and rarely turns into a chronic one.

Already after the condition is normalized, the doctor often recommends tjubazh, or "blind probing". To do this, you need a bottle of mineral water without gas, which you need to drink early in the morning (preferably at 6 am) for 20 minutes, then lie down with your right side on a warm water bottle and lie down for about an hour. The doctor prescribes cholagogue funds depending on the individual characteristics of the course of the disease.

If the stagnation of bile prevails (hypokinesis)

That is, an insufficiently intensive contraction of the gallbladder occurs. The pain is usually not expressed, dull, constant. In this case also helps well tjubazh. Drugs are often prescribed holokinetics: they are "Flamin" and "Berberine", "Sorbitol", "Magnesium sulfate". In addition, cholagogue grass is very good in this case. It can be immortelle and corn stigmas, St. John's wort. They can be brewed and drunk for a long time, like ordinary tea. In the autumn and spring period, they are connected to a pink and magnolia radish, eleutherococcus, ginseng, which are able to increase the tone of the gallbladder and vitality in general.

Hyperkinetic dyskinesia

In this case, the tone of the gallbladder is increased, it shrinks too quickly and often, and the sphincters are not revealed enough. At the same time there are sharp attacks of pain, which usually do not last more than one hour. In this case, choleretics are used, these are preparations containing bile, such as Allochol and Liobil. In addition, they are vegetative "Cholagol" and "Olimetil", as well as synthetic "Nikodin" and "Oxafenamide". There are herbs that are good for helping, it is mint and chamomile, motherwort and valerian, they help to remove spasm and normalize the outflow of bile. In addition, recommended conifer baths, courses for 10 days, water temperature is not higher than 35-40 degrees, the time in the bath to stay no more than 15 minutes.

Cholelithiasis

Gradually stagnation of bile leads to the formation of stones. That's why you can not just give up on an inflamed biliary (cholecystitis). Treatment of cholelithiasis is more complicated, requires special examination and prolonged medical support. And the form of this disease can be different, hidden, or dyspeptic, in which attacks of pain are of a periodic nature, and they themselves are not too pronounced. The most severe pain is characterized by hepatic colic, which occurs with acute obstruction of the gallbladder and duct. In any case, if the process of stone formation has already begun, this is treated only by surgical intervention.

Treatment with folk remedies

If there is an exacerbation of cholecystitis (the symptoms, treatment, we briefly considered above), then one should not alone engage in phytotherapy, you need to seek help from a doctor. But when the stage of remission comes, it's time to prolong it with the help of special charges. In the autumn-winter period, you will need a tincture from the following mixture of medicinal herbs. It is a yarrow and wormwood, mint and fruits of fennel, flowers of the immortelle. Two tablespoons of the mixture pour boiling water, insist the night and take a third of the glass three times a day before eating. In the spring, infusion of birch leaves is made (2 teaspoons of chopped leaves per cup of boiling water). In summer, an excellent option is the juice from the leaves and roots of a dandelion. He is bred with water one to one and take a tablespoon three times a day. So is the phytotherapy of such a complex disease as cholecystitis. Treatment (drugs should be selected only by a doctor) should be systemic, so in addition to herbs will have to take more and various medications and diet. However, this disease very often develops simultaneously with other ailments of the gastrointestinal tract, so we will devote a little more time to their description.

Treatment of cholecystitis and pancreatitis

In fact, they very often develop simultaneously, because the provoking factors are in most cases the same. There are also signs and symptoms, complications, and even the scheme of treatment is largely the same. Pancreatitis is an inflammation of the pancreas, which is also the cause of bacteria most often. With cholecystitis, the bile in the bladder stagnates and inflammation begins, and with pancreatitis instead of entering the intestine, the pancreatic juice remains in the gland and digests itself. First of all, the doctor will prescribe antispasmodics, and then he will deal with the disease. If the pancreas produces too much secret, then drugs such as "omeprazole" are prescribed, if on the contrary little, then "Festal", "Pancreatin".

Inflammation of the gastric mucosa and cholecystitis

Too often a meeting duo. And if together develop gastritis, cholecystitis, treatment can be successful enough, if together with them develops pancreatitis, then you are guaranteed a long and difficult path of rehabilitation. All these three organs are prone to self-destruction, since they contain enzymes that digest food. So, gastritis is an inflammation of the mucous membrane of the stomach. Pain and discomfort with it are localized in the central, upper abdomen. To treat gastritis used drugs such as "Omeprazole" and "Pariet". It is also recommended to drink fresh potato juice, motherwort and valerian, licorice, plantain and calendula.