Cholelithiasis, also known as cholelithiasis, refers to a disease in which stones occur in the biliary system including gallbladder or bile duct; Biliary tract infection is a common disease. According to the location of the disease, it can be divided into cholecystitis and cholangitis. After the formation of stones in the gallbladder, it can stimulate the gallbladder mucosa, which can not only cause chronic inflammation of the gallbladder, but also cause secondary infection and acute inflammation of the gallbladder when the stones are embedded in the neck or cystic duct of the gallbladder. Due to the chronic stimulation of gallstones to gallbladder mucosa, gallbladder cancer may also occur. It is reported that the incidence of this gallbladder cancer can reach 1% ~ 2%.
The main causes of gallstones may be:
1. Quiet, quiet.
Some people have little exercise and physical labor. As time goes on, the contractility of gallbladder muscles will inevitably decrease, and bile emptying will be delayed, which will easily lead to cholestasis and cholesterol crystallization, creating conditions for the formation of gallstones.
2. Obesity
Usually, I like to eat drinks or snacks with high fat, high sugar and high cholesterol. Obesity is an important basis for gallstones.
Do not eat breakfast
Many people don't eat breakfast in modern times, but not eating breakfast for a long time will increase bile concentration, which is conducive to bacterial reproduction and easy to promote the formation of gallstones. If you insist on eating breakfast, you can promote the outflow of some bile, reduce the viscosity of bile stored overnight and reduce the risk of gallstones.
4. Snacks after dinner
When people are in a curled posture, the intra-abdominal pressure increases and gastrointestinal peristalsis is limited, which is not conducive to the digestion and absorption of food and bile excretion. Sedentary after meals affects the reabsorption of bile acids, leading to an imbalance between cholesterol and bile acids in bile, and cholesterol is easy to deposit.
5. Patients with liver cirrhosis
This is related to the decline of estrogen inactivation function in patients with liver cirrhosis. If the estrogen inactivation function in the body is reduced, the estrogen level will be higher. In addition, many factors, such as low gallbladder contraction function, poor gallbladder emptying, varicose bile veins, and elevated bilirubin in blood, can cause gallstones.
6. Genetic factors
Genetic factors obviously play an important role in determining the risk of gallstones. Gallstones are more likely to occur in close relatives of patients with cholesterol stones.