On 8/20/2013 10:07 AM, George Leppla wrote:
> On 8/20/2013 8:41 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> I have heard that people who have the gall bladders removed can eat all
>> sorts of foods that used to cause them gastric problems. I will get to
>> test that, not that I have joined the club. Last week I developed a
>> gastric problem that got progressively worse. My nephew's wife had
>> complained about a stomach flu and she told me it lasted 4 days.
>
> I am glad you got to it early enough that you didn't have major
> complications. I'm guessing they did it laproscopically... a vast
> improvement over the old open method.
>
> One hint... while you can eat anything you want, avoid eating a lot of
> fat for a while. Your gall bladder acts as a metering device, adding
> bile to your digestive stream in measured amounts to help digest fat.
> When it is gone, when you eat fat, that triggers the liver to make bile
> which is then dumped into your digestive stream all at once. That much
> bile will irritate your intestines and they will flood with liquid to
> dilute the irritation... and you may well experience explosive, urgent
> diarrhea.
>
> Not fun and kind of scary if you don't know why it is happening. Two
> weeks after my gall bladder surgery I had a wonderful dinner of fried
> chicken, french fries... you get the idea. What happened about 30
> minutes later was almost legendary.
>
> I hope you have a quick and easy recovery.
>
> George L
>
Sounds like good advice from one who has been there!

Dave, feel better soon. But don't over-do the "I can eat anything"
notion.

Jill