What is the treatment for 'Gall Stones'?

Answer 1

Surgery to remove the gallbladder is the most common treatment. However, there are also medications you can take that may dissolve the stones, and they also can do lithotripsey, which hits the stones with high-frequency sound waves and tries to break them into tiny pieces (this is only used on people whose stones are relatively small, though). Stones usually recur when these nonsurgical treatments are used, though.

Answer 2

long answer: gall stones are composed of different contents like pigment gall stones, cholesterol, mixed etc.....

the most important criterias are perhaps
a)size
b) location

solitary stone less than 1.5 cm are extracted endoscopcally by using a "dormia basket". more than 2 cm and more than 5 stones are surgically extracted on cholecystectomy.

stones at the common bile duct causing obstruction are extracted using laproscopy too
but in the end its the surgeon's decision and expertise

extremly small stones less than1cm has a medical line of treatment using cholesterol dissoving agents

Answer 3

Depends on age as well. I had my gallbladder removed when I was 20. They said that if I were older, like 50, that they would have probably recommended that I have the procedure where they break them up. But since I was so young, they said if they did that they would just come back in 20 years, and again in 20 years, so they said it was better to just have my gall bladder removed at the time.

Answer 4

Gall bladder surgery. I had it last summer and it was fantastic. No more pain! It was same-day surgery, and I only missed about 4 days of work. Don't suffer, I know how much it hurts!

Answer 5

Currently the first choice is to try a low fat, alcohol free diet with large quantities of water being drunk this often shrinks and passes the stones withing a few weeks.

the second line is medication which after 3 months combined with a modified diet will clear them

the last attempt is surgery which does work but has a higher than you might think FATALITY rate. it should be the last attempt as its easier on family to have you grumpy on a diet than see you die on surgery through blood loss (as the spleen is often damaged as well)

Answer 6

Right, for a start you can **** surgery!! I mean it. Even the non-invasive shockwave therapy can rupture internal membranes etc. [Why else would you need to sign a disclaimer?].
The best way is to soften them and then flush them out. I have done this myself and know others that have also done it.
Go to a site called "curezone".
http://www.curezone.com
Look around and read about liver flushes and how people avoided surgery by expelling their own stones.
What have you got to lose?
Hope this helps.

Answer 7

Thre are remedies in alternative methods. But it all depends the sevearity of the problem, and no. of stones developed , how long you are suffering and other physical health disorders you have, like so many. So, keeping all this view, if you are already suffering for too long, it is better to have a MRI first and then decide the course of method.

Answer 8

The best treatment would be to have your gall bladder removed,no more pain,no more nausea, you can eat what you want without getting indigestion GREAT.

Answer 9

I am not sure that treatments work really. My aunt underwent surgery for its removal. But she has been completely fine after that and its been nearly 8 years now.

Answer 10

surgery is the treatment don't mean to frighten you but so far as i know that's it