Chinese woman who enjoys fatty and oily food has more than 2,000 gallstones removed from body

Doctors in south-west China have removed more than 2,000 gallstones from a woman who had been complaining of abdominal pain. 

The patient, surnamed Wang, visited a hospital in Guiyang, Guizhou province, where doctors found the small stones, ranging from several millimetres to 0.8 centimetres in diameter, clustered together in her swollen gallbladder.

Doctors attributed the patient's condition to her high cholesterol diet, which mainly consists of fast food and greasy meals.

The patient also skipped breakfast and refused to drink enough water, according to Chen Yuanjun, a doctor at the Guizhou Retired Doctors Hospital. 

Wang said she would wake up late every day as she is unemployed, video news site Pear reported. 

The patient maintained her unhealthy lifestyle for about five years, worsening her condition, doctors claimed.  

Wang said she thought she had a stomach disease and had been treating the intermittent pain with over-the-counter pills. 

Wang said the medicines would temporarily fix the problem but the pain would resurface.  

Medical staff conducted a minimally invasive surgery to extract the hardened deposits from the patient. 

She responded well to the treatment and is reported to be recovering well in hospital. 

It took nurses more than an hour to count the gallstones, Guizhou Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday.

The gall bladder works as a reservoir which concentrates bile, a waste product of the liver that helps the digestion of fat by holding cholesterol in a detergent solution.

However, over-consumption of fat can cause cholesterol to come out of this solution and form gallstones. 

If people suffer inflammation of the gallbladder as a complication, they may experience pain, fever or jaundice. 

Source: dailymail.co.uk

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