<p>Inside your body the gall bladder sits right underneath the liver and undertakes a crucial role in producing bile that helps the body to break down and digest fats.
Bile primarily contains a combination of water, fats including most importantly cholesterol bile salts (that actually break up the fats), proteins the naturally yellow colored substance called bilirubin that is excreted into the bile during the process of blood haemoglobin being broken down. Bilirubin is the factor in blood that makes bruises sometimes look yellowish, and is also the reason for the skin taking a yellow hue in cases of jaundice, when the liver function is impaired.
Sometimes when the level of cholesterol and/or bilirubin in the bile becomes too high due to a biological imbalance the bile can harden and form granules or stones - commonly called gallstones. In fact the can be small the size of sand grains or they can become as large as a golf ball. If you are prone to the development of gallstones they can be any size between these extremes and it is very possible that a stone can become lodged in the canal that the bile passes along near to the liver (the hepatic duct). This can result in gall bladder symptoms or gall bladder disease.
By far the majority of gall bladder stones tend to go unnoticed and cause no noticeable symptoms. But the 10% of stones that do cause the sufferer a problem can invoke excruciatingly painful episodes. This is when gall bladder problems can lead to medical practitioners typically sug</p>