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gallbladder
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Kittycat_7_
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My cousin has just had her gall bladder removed, she eats low carb and no gluten.
As you have additional health needs best to check with your medical/surgical team.
Take care
As you have additional health needs best to check with your medical/surgical team.
Take care
HSSS
Expert
The main reason people avoid fat with stones is because it can aggravate an attack when the gallbladder contracts to expel bile in the presence of fat in the digestive system. It doesn’t do it to everyone and it can vary in the intensity and by the amounts eaten. If it happens you’ll know. All you can do is try it - carefully increasing fat just a little at a time. Hopefully you’ll be able to manage at least a lowering of carbs from where you are now without getting hungry.
Once the gallbladder is removed then there’s no reason not to do lchf. But I’d recommend building up the fats very slowly and spreading them across the day and waiting a little while after surgery. In time, for most people, the body is able to adapt to not having the storage and increase bile supply but it doesn’t happen overnight. I started lchf about 9 months post surgery (at T2 diagnosis) and after a bit of a false start where I add too much too quick I was up to the levels of fat I wanted in about a month to six weeks.
Once the gallbladder is removed then there’s no reason not to do lchf. But I’d recommend building up the fats very slowly and spreading them across the day and waiting a little while after surgery. In time, for most people, the body is able to adapt to not having the storage and increase bile supply but it doesn’t happen overnight. I started lchf about 9 months post surgery (at T2 diagnosis) and after a bit of a false start where I add too much too quick I was up to the levels of fat I wanted in about a month to six weeks.
EvafromSussex
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The gallbladder stones can be made smaller, or if you are lucky, asymptomatic or even dissolved by adjusting your diet.
If your diet is low in fats, the gallbladder does not empty then replenish on a regular basis. Bile remains in the sac long enough for spontaneous crystallisation to occur. Stones form but there is little pain as the is no irritation caused by gallbladder emptying and becoming inflamed by stones rubbing the sac lining.
If your diet is high in fats the gallbladder is emptied and refilled regularly, thus not producing stones in the first place, and creating a "rinse" effect that can dissolve stone layers.
The problem may be if you move from low fat to moderate/high fat diet. This may be first time you discover presence of gall stones - they are likely to have been present before diet change, but not caused by diet change.
Unless you have to have gall stones removed (the inflammation becomes chronic, or spreads), it may be worth to persevere with high fat, and ask your doctor for analgesia to manage episodic pain.
If your diet is low in fats, the gallbladder does not empty then replenish on a regular basis. Bile remains in the sac long enough for spontaneous crystallisation to occur. Stones form but there is little pain as the is no irritation caused by gallbladder emptying and becoming inflamed by stones rubbing the sac lining.
If your diet is high in fats the gallbladder is emptied and refilled regularly, thus not producing stones in the first place, and creating a "rinse" effect that can dissolve stone layers.
The problem may be if you move from low fat to moderate/high fat diet. This may be first time you discover presence of gall stones - they are likely to have been present before diet change, but not caused by diet change.
Unless you have to have gall stones removed (the inflammation becomes chronic, or spreads), it may be worth to persevere with high fat, and ask your doctor for analgesia to manage episodic pain.
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