What is cholangitis

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More and more people find themselves suffering from cholangitis when they have physical examination. Cholangitis is a very common disease. Let's understand what cholangitis is.

What is cholangitis

First, cholangitis is mainly called cholangitis, and cholecystitis is mainly called cholecystitis. Both often occur at the same time, mostly on the basis of cholestasis secondary bacterial infection. Bacteria can reach the biliary tract through lymphatic or blood channels, and can also enter the biliary tract retrogradely from the intestinal tract through the duodenal papilla.

Second, cholangitis is often manifested as upper abdominal discomfort, pain, or colic attack, eating greasy food can aggravate upper abdominal pain, few fever and jaundice, abdominal signs are not obvious, only upper abdominal tenderness, gallbladder is not swollen.

Third, if an acute attack occurs, abdominal pain, chills, high fever and jaundice will appear. In addition to Charcot's triad with acute cholangitis (abdominal pain, chills, high fever, jaundice), there are also manifestations of shock and inhibition of the central nervous system, which is called Reynolds' pentalogy.

matters needing attention

Cholangitis patients in the treatment at the same time should cooperate with the diet conditioning, diet to eat more high-quality protein containing food, drink more water, eat less meals, increase the number of times and eat food, can promote the excretion of bile in the bile duct, can reduce the inflammation of the bile duct.