What Are Common Symptoms Of Gallbladder Disease?
What are some common symptoms of gallbladder disease? What things should I look out for? I assume you’re talking about gallstones, which are the most widespread form of gallbladder disease. The gallbladder’s purpose is to store and transmit bile, an enzyme involved in the digestion of fat. Gallstones form from crystallized bile. The majority of stones are composed of cholesterol, an ingredient of bile. Gallstones may lodge inside the gallbladder, or in one of the ducts running to and from the gallbladder itself or between the liver (located just above the gallbladder) and the small intestine. The stones can also block the pancreatic duct. Gallstones are very common, but most people who have them don’t know it because they never have symptoms. That’s not a problem because asymptomatic gallstones rarely cause problems and usually need no treatment. When symptoms do develop, they tend to come on suddenly and severely, in a gallstone “attack.” Symptoms may include: • pain in the upper abdo
