Gallbladder disease is a condition that continuously affects the gallbladder, which is a small organ that affects digestion. This organ stores bile which is a fluid that digests fat and is made by the liver. A disease in the gallbladder usually occurs when something such as a gallstone can block the flow of bile on the passage to the bile duct. This bile duct is the passageway to the gallbladder and small intestine. Cancer can also occur in the gallbladder, but it is extremely rare. When diagnosed with this disease, some people may have no symptoms at all while others may experience itching, abdominal pain, and nausea. Other symptoms may include the common types of gallbladder disease including gallstones, cholecystitis, cholestasis, and gallbladder cancer. This organ is not essential to everyday life, but can eventually cause digestive problems if it is not properly taken care of. By digesting a variety of fried foods, foods high in fat, or high fat-dairy products it can lead to many problems that includes the gallbladder. From the cause of gallbladder disease, it can affect many environmental factors such as constantly having to urinate. It will also affect environmental factors because you will have to surround yourself with healthy foods instead of fried and high concentrated foods. According to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Gallstones are very common and there are around three million U.S cases per year. Mostly, gallstones occur more frequently in middle aged adults. Gallbladder cancer is extremely rare and having gallstones can increase the risk for this type of cancer. Gallbladder cancer is more common among women while two-thirds of deaths happened among females. However even though this disease is rare, there is an increase of cases because of the unhealthy lifestyle people choose.
Gallbladder diseases cause a series of problems that can damage your body physically. A subdisease known as gallstones can prosper a long term affect in the abdomen and promote infection. Other complications include a yellowish tint in your eyes, a bile duct infection, a blood infection known as sepsis, pancreas inflammation, and cancer. Gallbladder cancer also affects the physical health of your body. The gallbladder is connected to the intestines by a bile duct, and if this becomes blocked by the cancer, the gallbladder can build up and expand. Gallbladder cancer can also cause death depending on how severe the condition is. Gallbladder diseases such as gallstones and cancer generally affects the digestive system. Along with this, it also affects the organs of the liver and the pancreas. This disease alters from how God intended us to be because he intended healthy lifestyles from the start of our world. By being diagnosed with these diseases, it comes down to how the diet of humanity has changed and it alters from Adam and Eve’s food choices. God intended us to live in the image of God and this disease blocks the passageway to do so. To fight this disease, gallstones can usually pass through the bile duct and into your urine. The body can also fight this disease by naturally passing it through the body. However, it can also be treated through surgery. Gallbladder cancer cannot be fought from the body because of how fast the cancer can spread. Treatments such as Chemotherapy and radiation can be done to treat the cancer. Gallbladder cancer can go untreated overtime and this causes a disease called cholecystitis which can become extremely serious. This can sometimes lead to life threatening complications such as a gallbladder rupture. The symptoms can worsen over time if the gallbladder disease isn’t treated right away. The cancer can spread, or the gallstone can become bigger and rupture nearby organs. Medical professionals are able to cure these types of diseases through a variety or medicines and surgery as well. We as a society are able to lessen the risks of this disease by eating healthy regularly and staying on top of our diet. Risk factors include diets high in cholesterol, a sedentary lifestyle, or obesity. By avoiding certain types of foods such as refined carbohydrates or saturated fats we can reduce the risk of being diagnosed. We can also lessen the risks of the side effects by drinking fluids to maintain the growth of the gallstones.
Gallbladder diseases can affect our emotional health because of the stress, anxiety, and pain that is caused. The main cause of gallstones is stress and this stone forms in the intestines as an effect of this feeling. Gallbladder cancer and gallstones can also be painful in the lower part of the abdomen. Gallbladder disease can also have a discomfort on your body when dealing with the types of this disease such as gallstones. This condition can affect the way one interacts with the world because they have to limit themselves with the food choices made. With this, it makes a person cautious with what is being put into the body and how it will affect their condition later on. Gallbladder disease can affect learning, processing, and creativity because of the symptom of pain and discomfort. Since gallstones are caused by stress, this can affect your mental health because the constant overload of anxiety can take over.
In terms of social health, gallbladder disease can affect the ability to interact socially with others because one might feel embarrassment for the diet they have to intake. People diagnosed with this disease would have to surround themselves with people they feel comfortable with. The side effects might keep one from being around others such as nausea and abdominal pain, but most of the time it does not. The only alteration that can make one feel self conscious having gallbladder disease would be obesity. Social activities such as working out may be affected by the painful effect of this disease. Other social activities such as going to the bathroom are increased when having this condition because it causes one to pee very frequently. One way an environmental wellness is affected is the situations that a person surrounds themselves with having this disease. Whether it’s a stressful work environment, a person will have to limit themselves on the environments they surround themselves with. Someone’s living conditions might be altered in order to accommodate the current health conditions such as a change in diet. To ensure someone is living a healthy life according to their disease, they will have to restrict themselves whether it’s a stressful relationship with a girlfriend, or a work environment that causes anxiety.
Gallbladder disease affects our spiritual health because by doing through this process of healing, it might bring us closer to God in a way. One can feel that they are living a meaningful life by looking to a God during this time of hardship. In the Bible it says,”Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security” (Jeremiah 33:6). This verse can reveal to humans that sickness is not forever and even though it might seem like it, one day we will be in heaven with God and prosper for the rest of eternity. God might have intended someone to live with this disease because he has a plan for everybody and you have to trust that he knows all. By applying the biblical worldview, Creation Fall and Redemption, God first intended for humanity to take care of our bodies through Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were provided with an abundance of fruit trees and this also gave them the nutrition that they needed. The fall, or sin, can reveal the unhealthy food choices a person could make. This causes a downfall in our health because of the continuous amounts of processed foods humanity intakes. Just like the sin of Adam and Eve giving into the serpent and sinning, unhealthy food choices can lead to a variety of cancers and disease. However, Adam and Eve were redeemed through Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our sins and having eternal life in heaven. By resembling the redemption in the Bible, God can redeem society through healing and show us the way in which life was intended to be so they we could remain image bearers. Having this condition also might suggest that as an individual is broken and God intended this to happen to us. Through the process of healing with gallbladder disease, God might be intending to show us something or grow us closer to his heart during this time as well. Instead of being broken, this disease can heal us mentally and mend our heart through the image of God.
A reported 57 year old man experienced extreme abdominal pain. He was emitted to the hospital, and an ultrasound indicated a severe pear-shaped gallstone. Researchers were unable to find a case on a larger gallstone than the one this man had. The gallstone measured 16.8 centimeters long and 7.8 centimeters wide. This disease affected him in physical health because of the extreme pain that was caused by the gallstone. This disease also affected his social and emotional health as well. This man was reported to have this gallstone for around ten years. During these ten years, it limited his social health because he had to limit himself on the environments he surrounded with. It also limited his emotional health because he always had to remain calm so that the gallstone would not continuously grow. During this time, the man underwent coronary artery disease because he did not wish to have surgery to have it removed. This 57 year-old man could have prevented this disease by controlling his diabetes and weight. He also could have decreased the risk-factors by limiting his consumption of alcohol because that had damage to the gallbladder and also controlling his high density consumption of cholesterol. This man could have lessened the severity of the side effects by having the gallstone removed by surgery. He also could have decreased the intense side effects by surrounding himself with healthy environments for himself and controlling the size of the gallstone through his diet.
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