Nursing Care Plan for Cholelitiasis

Definition

Cholelithiasis : Is the presence of gallstones in the gallbladder.


Causes :

The follow list shows some of the possible medical causes of Cholelithiasis that are listed by the Diseases Database :

* Sickle cell disease
* Somatostatinoma
* Clofibrate
* Erythropoietic protoporphyria
* Hypercalcaemia
* Combined oral contraceptive pill
* Hereditary spherocytosis
* Somatostatin
* Cystic fibrosis
* Haemoglobin E disease
* Haemolytic anaemia
* Lanreotide

Source: Diseases Database


Clinical ManifestationPatients with bile duct stones often have symptoms of chronic and acute.

Acute symptoms

* Signs:
o right epigastric pain and spasm
o Business tangible inspiration in the upper right kwadran
o enlarged and gall bladder pain
o mild jaundice

* Symptoms:
o pain (colic gall) that persist
o Nausea and vomiting
o febrile (38.5 ° ° C)


Chronic symptoms

* Signs:
o Normally invisible image on the abdomen
o Sometimes there is pain in the upper right kwadran

* Symptoms:
o pain (colic gall), Venue: upper abdominal (mid epigastrium), Nature: focusing on the epigastrium spreading toward the right scapula
o Nausea and vomiting
o Intolerance to fatty foods
o Flatulence
o Eruktasi (burp)
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