How to treat gallstones?

Gallstones are a disease with a relatively high incidence in daily life. Its onset is often related to factors such as age and obesity, and has a great impact on human health. Therefore, when people are diagnosed with gallstones, they must seek medical attention in time and not miss the best time for treatment. So how should you treat gallstones?

1. Medication

Smaller stones can be expelled by taking litholytic drugs. The drugs can break up the stones in the bile duct and then excrete them from the body through urine. This is the most common method for treating smaller stones. This method can protect kidney function and repair damage. However, for larger stones over 0.5 cm, the effect of taking drugs to break up the stones is not very ideal. Even if the stones can be broken up and excreted from the body, there are often sequelae, such as cholecystitis.

2. Gravel

This method uses certain technological means to break up the stones outside the body and then excrete them out of the body. However, due to the special position of the gallbladder, the stones are not easy to locate, and even if the stones are broken up, they are difficult to expel. Therefore, it should be combined with litholytic drug treatment to expel the stones, and the effect is still good.

3. Surgery

This method is to directly remove the gallbladder to fundamentally eliminate the cause of the disease, thus achieving good results. However, the traditional method of opening the abdominal cavity for surgical removal of the gallbladder is very traumatic, takes a long time to recover, and requires hospitalization. The cost is also relatively high, which seriously affects the patient's study and life. Now with the development of technology, laparoscopic cholecystectomy as a new surgical method can overcome the shortcomings of traditional open surgery, with less damage and faster recovery, and is increasingly favored by patients.