If you think that cholecystitis is exclusively a lot of adults, you are mistaken. Child cholecystitis is not uncommon, it takes place mainly in an erased form and is quite difficult diagnosed. About how the disease and the treatment of cholecystitis in children appears in the article.
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If you think cholecystitis — Exclusively the fetalty of adults, prone to the errors in nutrition and bad habits, you are mistaken: children are also often sick cholecystitis. True, the disease has some features, it takes advantageously in an erased form with an atypical clinical picture and is quite difficult to diagnose. How children's cholecystitis manifest? How to help the child?
What is cholecystitis and why he arises?
Cholecystitis is called an inflammatory process in the area of the gallbladder. Isaally found quite rare, more often inflammation captures bile ducts, develops into cholecystocholangitis, affects the work of the liver and proceeds as hepatocolecystitis.
Child cholecystitis browsing the relationship with the existence of chronic foci of infection, acute infectious and inflammatory processes are often preceded by acute infectious and inflammatory processes.
- Chronic tonsillitis or angina.
- Flu.
- Scarlet fever.
- Adenoids.
- Schimorite and Frontitis.
- Caries teeth and inflammatory diseases gums.
- Gastritis, Duodenit.
- Dysentery.
- Appendicitis and other diseases gasts.
In the treatment of cholecystitis in children, it is necessary to take into account the role of improper nutrition. Forced feeding and crossing, disruption of food intake and age diet, excess fat and carbohydrates, lack of vegetables in diet — All this affects the secretion of bile, breaks its outflow and contributes to the inflammation of the gallbladder.
Child cholecystitis may have an infectious and non-infectious nature. In children, the cause of inflammation becomes microbes living in the intestine — Cockki, intestinal sticks. Often, cholecystitis occurs as a symptom of giardiasis or melting invasion.
Parambian carriage is widespread among children. Parasites live in the upper departments of the small intestine of the child, in the gallway paths fall into the gallbladder, irritating it, causing inflammation and disconesia. Parasite vital products cause poisoning of the children's body and the appearance of symptoms of intoxication.
Symptoms of cholecystitis in children
At the beginning of its development, cholecystitis has no specific symptoms. The child becomes sluggish, irritable, he eats badly, lose weight, often complains of bitterness in the mouth, nausea and headache. Sometimes vomiting occurs, an unstable stool, constipation is replaced by diarrhea, the body temperature rises.
Pain in the stomach arise in the right hypochondrium in the form of seizures, spread to epigastrine and to the navel. Initially, they are rare, briefly, then participated, become longer or permanent.
As the liver is violated, its dimensions increase, which is determined when taking the abdomen. Due to the weak development of the muscles of the front abdominal wall, the bubble symptoms in small children are missing. The subfebrile temperature is constantly preserved, changes arise in the composition of the blood, the number of leukocytes and EE.
Child cholecystitis in most cases distinguishes the absence of jaundice. A long course of the disease leads to the dysfunction of the gastrointestinal tract, affects the work of the heart, respiratory, nervous and endocrine systems.
The sharp purulent forms of cholecystitis are rare in children, more often the disease occurs chronically, with periodic exacerbations, clinically reminiscent of acute inflammatory processes. In 15% of children, cholecystitis is represented in latent form and is manifested by a resistant subfebrile temperature, symptoms of general intoxication in the absence of obvious abdominal pain.
Treatment of cholecystitis in children
In the acute period of the child, the child needs bed and diet rich in proteins and complex carbohydrates when limiting fats, exclusion of fried, sharp and canned dishes. Antibiotics are prescribed to combat infection, for the treatment of giardiasis — Antiparasitic drugs. In comprehensive cholecystitis therapy, the Demyanov-contributing topies are widely used «Cleaning» gallbladder, choleretic means of plant origin, thinning bile, increasing its number and facilitating its exit.
Attention! The self-treatment of cholecystitis is unacceptable! Task parents — in time notice the symptoms of the disease and show the child to the children's gastroenterologist. Timely treatment of cholecystitis will allow you to restore and save the health of the baby.
