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
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)