gallbladder removal?

Question

where can i find a good list of does and don't for food after removal? and what kind of drugs will help me after? dr didn't say much at all . Some days now after drinking milk i don't feel really good after. and what if i do eat fatty foods, what will happen?

Answer 1

Hi Donna

Hoping this info will prevent you from having surgery and fixing the issue with some assistance of natural healing. Email me any questions.

Cause
Toxins overloading into your system from chemicals, additives, processed and junk foods, as well as excessive saturated animal fat in the diet, contribute to gallbladder problems. If the liver becomes overloaded with excess saturated fats, the gallbladder gets stressed and inflamed. This excess of saturated fats become cholesterol deposits and when enough have formed, they crystallize with the bile to form gallstones.

Women get gallstones four times as frequently as men, especially women over 40 years old who are fair-skinned, and overweight. Twenty percent of adults over 65 years of age get gallstones that create problems and pain. Over half a million surgeries are performed each year to remove gallbladders due to gallbladder disorders, the most common being gallstones.

Constipation, food allergies (especially to milk products and eggs), digestive disorders (especially caused by a deficiency of hydrochloric acid), intestinal diseases, an excessively low-fiber diet, dental disturbances, parasites, rapid weight loss, and stress can all cause or contribute to gall stones and other gallbladder disorders. For lasting relief of symptoms, all of these factors must be addressed if they are present.


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Natural Cures

Note: In order to make an accurate diagnosis of gallbladder disorders, ultrasound may be required. If surgery is required, typically laser surgery is used, which does not need to cut into the abdomen, and allows healing to occur much more quickly. However, most gallbladder surgeries can be easily avoided through nutritional and natural intervention, with emphasis on identification, avoidance, and treatment of food allergies.

Diet: Identify and avoid all foods to which you are allergic or sensitive, especially eggs, milk and dairy products, gluten, wheat and dairy products. Also reduce your saturated and overall fat intake, keeping it below 20 percent of the total foods you eat, and eliminate all processed and hydrogenated fats. But do not cut fat completely, as this can actually increase your chances of developing gallstones. Monounsaturated fats (olive oil, coconut oil) are the best fats to include in your diet.

Be sure to eat less, as well, since overeating places stress on the gallbladder. At the same time, be sure to eat breakfast, don`t skip meals, and eat a balanced and healthy diet full of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans, legumes and other vegetarian sources of protein. Increase your intake of dietary fiber to improve bowel movements, and avoid refined carbohydrates, which can cause gallstone formation. Overall, eat less animal foods, remove processed foods and move toward a whole foods vegetarian-oriented diet. If you are overweight, lose the weight, but slowly and sensibly.

Good foods to include in your diet are black cherries, pears, beets (raw and cooked), fresh steamed and water sautéed greens such as beet tops collards, kale, plenty of steamed broccoli and cauliflower, snack on seasonal fruits, eat plain organic yogurt, as well as more raw foods in general.

Gallbladder Flush: Flushing the gallbladder of stones is a common natural cure and practice of holistic physicians. It is quite easy.

For six days do the following: Eat a whole foods diet with no animal products and no processed, refined foods. Eliminate all flour products, eat whole grains such as quinoa and brown rice. Limit dairy products to organic plain yogurt. Drink plenty of raw, fresh apple juice, and eat applesauce and organic apples as both meals and snacks. Eat fresh leafy green salads, steamed vegetables, tofu, tempeh, and vegetable soups.

On the afternoon of the seventh day, have 1/2 cup of extra virgin olive oil mixed with 1/3 cup of fresh lemon juice. Drink all at once and skip your evening meal. Go to bed early (no later than 10 p.m.), and sleep with your right knee tucked up to your side. In the morning, you should eliminate the gallstones, which will appear greenish yellow. If you do not have a natural bowel movement in the morning, see the enema instructions in the Cleanse and Detoxification section and proceed with an enema. Six months to a year after your first gallbladder flush, you can repeat the process.

The protocol just described is a very gentle non-invasive gallbladder flush. See Cleansing and Detoxification for a more advanced detailed protocol.

Herbs: Combine the tinctures of wild yam, fringetree bark, milk thistle, and balmony in equal parts and take one teaspoon of this mixture three times a day. An infusion of chamomile or lemon balm can also be taken regularly throughout the day.

Hydrotherapy: Hydrotherapy is the application of water, ice, steam and hot and cold temperatures to maintain and restore health. Treatments include full body immersion, steam baths, saunas, sitz baths, colonic irrigation and the application of hot and/or cold compresses. Hydrotherapy is effective for treating a wide range of conditions and can easily be used in the home as part of a self-care program. Many Naturopathic Physicians, Physical Therapists and Day Spas use Hydrotherapy as part of treatment. I suggest several at-home hydrotherapy treatments.

Juice Therapy: The following juice combinations can help improve gallbladder health: carrot, beet, cucumber, radish, and fresh dandelion roots, with a clove of garlic; or grape, pear, grapefruit, and lemon.

Lifestyle: Choose non-toxic cleaning supplies and personal body care products.

Nutritional Supplementation: The following supplements can help relieve gallbladder symptoms: digestive enzymes with each meal, vitamin B-complex, vitamin C, choline, inositol, lipotrophic factors, alfalfa tablets, acidophilus, lecithin, and the amino acid, L-taurine. Peppermint oil sipped in water throughout the meal can also be helpful.

Topical Treatment: Castor oil packs placed over the gallbladder can speed relief of symptoms.

Alternative Professional Care
If your symptoms persist despite the above measures, seek the help of a qualified health professional. The following professional care therapies have all been shown to be useful for treating gallstones and gallbladder disorders: Acupuncture, Detoxification Therapy, Environmental Medicine, Magnetic Field Therapy, Naturopathic Medicine, Neural Therapy, and Osteopathy.

Best of health to you

Answer 2

There is no one size fits all list of foods you can or can't have after having your gallbladder removed because different things affect people differently. The only thing that has changed is that you no longer have a "storage tank" for the bile your liver produces, but you still produce bile. You may be having difficulty with milk if you are very soon after post operation, and the intestinal flora are still imbalanced. You might have better luck with eating a live culture yogurt or acidophilus added milk for a few days, in small amounts at first, to replace the lost beneficial bacteria to the gut. It may also be you are having problems with the fat content, if you are drinking whole milk. If you eat a very fatty meal, you will probably experience bloating and gassy feelings from the undigested fats, loose/smelly stools, and may even get a bout of diarrhea. How much fat that will take to trigger it depends on your particular system and there is no mediction that will change that. What foods are irritating to you will also be individual. Most people note trouble with the cruciferous veggies like cabbage, sprouts and broccoli, but just as many have no problems at all. You will just have to eat small amounts to find out what your particular trigger foods are, in what amounts, if there are any. If you do eat something particularly high fat, and can eat a whole grain along with it, you may have less trouble. The whole grains tend to bind with the fat and make it less irritating to the system.
My mother had hers out years ago, and eats everything without a problem. My sister had hers out two years ago and has trouble with cabbage and nothing else. I know people that eat everything without problems,and people who do have to avoid some foods. You will just have to find out what works for you. Just eat small amounts until you find them out. Good luck, and good recovery.

Answer 3

I eat what I feel like and I havent really noticed any problems. I have spoken to a person who had theirs out and can not eat/drink full fat dairy, like milk and yogurt. The only medication i had after my op was pain killers, I felt really ill for a few days, but picked up quickly.

Answer 4

If you eat fatty foods after your poop will be fatty and maybe quite loose. See the sites below for post removal advice...;

Look at...
Expectations after surgery
Convalescence

The second link is about post removal diet

Answer 5

Different foods will cause different reactions in different people. In general you need to be careful of high fiber foods, like lettuce. "Gassy" type veggies are a concern too, like, cucumber and green peppers. Anything that does not agree with you may cause mild pain or slight nausea. You will need to test yourself with a small amount of any food you may question making you sick. There will be some foods you will never want to eat again. Best wishes on your recovery.