Is it her stomach that is hurting? If so, try having her puree all her foods before she consumes them. Also, regardless of whether it is her stomach or her liver that is acting up, have her try a fat-free diet for awhile. There will be a little natural fat in the foods (such as garbanzo beans and soybeans have some natural fat in them, but avoid the obvious fatty foods and absolutely no added fat. She needs to eat a strict vegetarian diet right now (no meats, no dairy products (cheese, milk, yogurt, etc.), no fats or oils, pureed, and "chew" the pureed food thoroughly so the salivary amylase is thoroughly mixed with the food and then the other digestive enzymes should be triggered to be emitted.

Without a gallbladder she should eat a low fat diet from here on out.

Her liver is still congested, just like it was before the surgery. Only now it is dealing with the anesthesia and drugs. In another month or so, she should do a liver flush. I don't know if she could do one sooner. Perhaps someone else on this forum would know if a month after surgery is too soon. But two months should be ok. When the olive oil is mixed with FRESH grapefruit juice it emulsifies and isn't oily. The other alternative is to do one of the slow, gradual liver flushes, though there is a little oil to swallow there too. Or, go to Julia Chang's website (Sensible Health)and get some of the oriental herbs that dissolve/break up stones. maybe they would help enough that she wouldn't have to drink the oil. . . but, she will have to probably swallow them at least a month before she sees a noticeable effect.

The previous posting is solid advice.

I'd suggest that she try to support her pancreas right now. With no gallbladder, her pancreas has to produce more digestive enzymes to make up for the low but constant dribble of bile from the liver.

When food first passes from the stomach to the small intestine, it activates the gallbladder (which is not there, in her case) to dump stored, concentrated bile into the small intestines to digest fats and meat. At the same time - the tubes are wrapped together and so both organs are stimulated simultaneously - the pancreas is stimulated to produce digestive enzymes to help the digestion of food. In a healthy person with a gallbladder, they work in concert to digest food properly. In a person missing their gallbladder (or never having had a functional gallbladder) the pancreas is stimulated to produce more enzymes. Over time, the pancreas can get worn out, compromising it's ability to produce the hormone, insulin. This raises the possibility of Diabetes Type II.

To support her pancreas, she should consider taking the following two supplements:
1. Digestive Enzymes (especially lipase, which digests fats)
2. Probiotics (friendly bacteria which also help in digestion and protect the digestive tract).

A third possibility: She should look into taking oxbile supplements whenever she eats a fatty meal. They are cheap. One oxbile capsule taken at the beginning of the meal will provide a source of bile to aid the pancreas' secretions in digesting fats. Timing is important: It should be consumed no more than 20 minutes before the actual intake of animal fats or other fats. Otherwise, the oxbile might make her bilious - cranky and irritated.

A final thing to consider, once her digestion gets some support, is a kidney cleanse. The kidneys excrete by-products of protein metabolism, and might be under strain with compromised protein digestion. A real mild, easy-to-use tea is Banaba tea (recently reposted on my behalf by Jessesmom). It's cheap, at least my online source is, tastes like green tea, and works to dissolve kidneys stones and support the immune system as it works to kill off any infections in the kidney, bladder and urethra areas. Banaba tea has also been used in studies to prevent the onset of Diabetes II and reverse early stage Diabetes II, and also to support the bodies of those who have had Diabetes II for some time. It acts like a vegetable-source insulin-type agent.

Hope she recovers soon. It's no fun being too sick to eat.

PC

There are two types of gallbladder that allow a it to float: those where the membranes that attach it to the liver are wide and those where the membranes only cover the cystic duct and artery. A floating gallbladder can twist and result in a condition called gallbladder volvulus.

A volvulus is a medical term that describes the twisting of a non solid organ around the membranes that attach the gallbladder to other organs. Gallbladder volvulus is an extremely rare disease, the true incidence is not exactly known. Eighty-five percent of gallbladder volvulus cases occur between the ages of 60 and 80 years, with a female-to-male ratio of 3:1.

Loss of fat and the liver wasting that may occur with advancing age can make the gallbladder prone to floating and twisting.

Other factors are violent contraction of the neighbouring organs, namely stomach, duodenum and colon, curvature of the upper spine, and sinking of the abdominal and atherosclerosis of the cystic artery (a disease affecting blood vessels). The importance of Gallstones is unknown. Approximately 70-80% of patients with torsion have no gallstones. Volvulus interferes with blood supply and bile flow.

Surgery is usually used to correct this problem especially if the gallbladder is twisted because it is a life threatening condition. It is important that any twisting is undone.

I am surprise the surgeon was unaware of this condition!

Hello,

I'm not sure but I think Hanna mentioned the cream and berry flush somewhere...

Take care

Luz