Symptoms of cholecystitis in women

Cholecystitis is a common infectious inflammatory disease that often occurs in middle-aged women. Most of the time, inflammation is caused by lack of water in the body. The most common type of cholecystitis is acute cholecystitis, which is very painful. Unlike acute cholecystitis, which can alert you in a timely manner, chronic cholecystitis is not easy to detect. So what are the symptoms of cholecystitis in women? Let’s take a look together below!

1. Cholecystitis may cause distending pain in the right upper abdomen, which may be aggravated by changes in body position and breathing, radiating pain in the right shoulder or back, high fever, chills, and nausea and vomiting. Chronic cholecystitis often causes indigestion, upper abdominal discomfort or dull pain, nausea, bloating and belching, which are aggravated by eating greasy food.

2. The main symptom of cholecystitis is upper abdominal pain after a full meal, which is mainly manifested as persistent pain in the right upper abdomen and paroxysmal aggravation, which may radiate to the right shoulder and back; it is often accompanied by fever, nausea and vomiting, but chills are rare and jaundice is mild. Abdominal examination revealed fullness in the right upper abdomen, tense abdominal muscles in the gallbladder area, and obvious tenderness and rebound pain. If it is chronic cholecystitis, the symptoms and signs are atypical. Most of the symptoms are bile-induced indigestion, aversion to greasy food, upper abdominal distension, belching, heartburn in the stomach, etc., which are similar to ulcer disease or chronic appendicitis. In fact, cholecystitis is not terrible, and psychological effects still play a certain role. First of all, it is important to maintain an optimistic attitude, don't be depressed, be optimistic. . The traditional Chinese medicine Liqishu tea can be used to treat and relieve the recovery and recurrence of cholecystitis.

3. Clinical manifestations

Acute cholecystitis

Many patients develop the disease in the middle of the night after having a greasy dinner, because a high-fat diet can strengthen the contraction of the gallbladder, and lying flat makes it easy for small gallstones to slide into and become stuck in the gallbladder duct. The main symptoms are persistent pain in the right upper abdomen. Paroxysmal aggravation can radiate to the right shoulder and back; often accompanied by fever, nausea and vomiting, but chills are rare, and jaundice is mild. Abdominal examination reveals fullness in the right upper abdomen, tense abdominal muscles in the gallbladder area, obvious tenderness, and rebound pain.

Chronic cholecystitis

Symptoms and signs are atypical. Most of them are biliary indigestion, aversion to greasy food, upper abdominal distension, belching, heartburn, etc., similar to ulcer disease or chronic appendicitis; sometimes due to stones blocking the gallbladder duct, it may be acute, but when the stones move and the obstruction is relieved, it will quickly improve. Physical examination, there may be mild tenderness or percussion pain in the gallbladder area; if there is water in the gallbladder, a round and smooth cystic mass can often be felt.