Gall Bladder Disease Diet

Gall Bladder Treatment: Use a Low Fat Diet for the Gall Bladder

Focus your gall bladder disease diet on low fat choices. The best gall bladder treatment (other than surgery), to reduce or eliminate gall bladder attacks, is to go on a low fat diet (gall bladder specific).

What is the Gall Bladder?
What is its importance in the digestion of food?

The gall bladder is a small sac close to the liver. Bile produced by the liver is stored in the gall bladder which delivers the bile to the intestine as needed to digest food. As food passes from the stomach to the intestine, the gall bladder releases bile acids which help to break down and digest food. The acids are particularly useful in breaking down fatty foods.

The digestive system is highly efficient: as food moves from the stomach to the intestine a hormone is released from the intestinal lining. That hormone stimulates the gall bladder to contract and release bile through the common bile duct into the small intestine. After the food is digested, the bile acids are re-absorbed, carried by the blood stream, to the liver, and then cycled back to the gall bladder.

Bile is required for efficient food digestion; without it you may suffer from heart burn or acid reflux, diarrhea, constipation, nausea, and/or abdominal pain.

Gall Bladder Attacks

If you develop gall bladder problems, you will likely suffer from gall bladder attacks (sharp pains).

These pains are typically a result of gall stones becoming lodged (or ‘stuck’) in the hepatic ducts (that carry bile from the liver), cystic ducts (that carry bile to and from the gall bladder, or the common bile duct (that carries bile to the intestine); often these attacks occur after eating.

Bile can be trapped or blocked in the ducts by gall stones, the gall bladder and ducts can become inflamed; there are other related and serious health issues that can occur (gall stone pancreatitis) as a result.

Gall stones form through the hardening of liquid bile residue; the cause of the hardening is too much cholesterol, bilirubin or bile salts (which can be a result of diet). Gall stones can be small (size of a pin head) or as large as a plum.

If bile ducts remain blocked for a long period of time, and are left untreated, the condition can be fatal; the symptoms are fever, severe pain and jaundice (signalled by a yellowing of the skin and eyes). Commonly gall bladder attacks will be painful.

Go see your medical doctor if you feel you have gall bladder problems; you will need his/her advice for the most effective gall bladder treatment.

If gall bladder problems are common in your family, you need to take preventative actions. A gall bladder disease diet, or a low fat gall bladder diet, may minimize your risk of gall bladder attacks. It is important that you work on keeping your digestive system healthy by following a gall bladder disease diet.

A Preventative Gall Bladder Disease Diet:

A Low Fat Diet Gall Bladder

• Avoid high fat foods. Also choose low fat dairy products (skim milk, reduced fat cheeses, zero fat yoghurt, etc.).

• Reduce your red meat intake (eliminate red meat from your diet if you can; but at least take out as much red meat as possible). Eat lean proteins (chicken, turkey, seafood, lower fat nuts, legumes, etc.).

• Avoid frying your foods.

• Avoid refined foods. Eat high fiber foods.

• Do not put undue strain on your digestive system: do not binge eat or purge yourself of food intake.

• Eat a balanced meal: just as too much red meat is not good for you, so is too much refined, high sugar food. If you’re trying to lose weight (overweight people have a higher incidence of gall bladder attacks), focus on slow and steady weight loss with a balanced diet.

• Take a daily Omega 3 oil pill (fish oil): Omega 3 helps to regulate your bad cholesterol levels (and cholesterol residue can be a cause of gall stones).

• Eat ginger with your meal: grated ginger in your food or marinated ginger as a side dish. Ginger helps your stomach digest food. Ginger ale that has gone flat (lost its fizz) is good for an upset stomach.

• Tumeric is believed to trigger the flow of bile.

All of the above are preventatives for gall bladder disease. Diet will not help get rid of gall stones once you have the disease or gall stones: then you will need medical support for effective and safe gall bladder treatment.

Natural Old Home Remedies: Gall Bladder Disease Diet:

Gall Bladder Cleanse

• Take 3 tablespoons of lemon juice and 3 tablespoons of olive oil (either separately or mixed together) at bedtime and first thing in the morning. A number of people who have followed this remedy (there is also a much stronger olive oil cleanse available), have reported that stones have passed through their system. For the most effectiveness, you need to take this remedy for at least one week.

Gall Bladder/Duct Relaxant

• A daily dose of magnesium (500 mg) can act as a muscle relaxant: the muscles in the bile duct might relax enough that the stones can pass through the duct and out of your system.

A gall bladder disease diet is a good preventative for painful gall bladder attacks.

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