By Jan Richards
 Cholecystitis is an acute and/or chronic disorder that emerges from inflammation. Inflammation stretches to the gallbladder. The common conditions are linked to cholelithiasis, or the start of gallstones. You may wonder how back pain starts from this disorder, yet if you continue reading, you can see how it affects the spine. Gallbladder infections can cause lower back pains, specifically sharp pain, since it is a membranous sac located in the muscles. The sac stores in bile in the liver.
Cholelithiasis may derive from bile pigments, obesity, cholesterol, estrogen therapy, calcium stones, and infections of the gallbladder. The disease can cause chest pain, indigestion, and so on. Cholelithiasis also causes episodic pain from colicky symptoms, which expend to the epigastric, which lies up or over the abdomen and radiates to the shoulders and back. The worst condition puts the patient at risk of jaundice. If the condition continues, the patient will feel repeated spurts of nausea, which causes vomiting. Flatulence, steatorrhea (Excess fats in stools), belching, pruritus, ecchymosis, dark urine, and discolored stools are signs of Cholecystitis. Ecchymosis is the fleeing of blood, which |
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By Jan Richards
 Parts of adolescent's body are filled with a waxy stuff identified as cholesterol. It helps to produce vitamin D, cell membranes and certain hormones. Blood cholesterol comes from two different sources, liver within the body and food. The adolescent's liver produces enough cholesterol to carry out proper functioning.
The blood acts as the carrier of cholesterol and transports it to different parts of the body. They are transported in round particle form known as lipoproteins. There are two types of lipoproteins called the low density lipoproteins or LDL and high density lipoproteins or HDL. Low density lipoprotein or LDL cholesterol is commonly known as bad cholesterol. It helps in the building up of plaque in arteries and this condition is known as atherosclerosis. The LDL level must be low in the blood and if it is high it must be decreased. Healthy weight must be maintained and exercise should be done regularly. Food items which have high contents of calories, dietary cholesterol and saturated fat must be avoided.
High density lipoprotein or HDL cholesterol is the good cholesterol. It is |
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