“What to drink to flush out gallstones?”
I was diagnosed with gallstones. I want to get rid of them. What to drink to flush out gallstones?
3 Answers
Gallstones are of many different kinds and all of them cannot really be dissolved or “flushed out”
Nothing you drink will flush out gallstones. If the gallstones are not calcified ursodeoxycholic acid may over time dissolve them. If the gallstones did not cause any problems and were found incidentally, leaving them alone is reasonable. People who have asymptomatic gallstones for 3 years after discovery rarely develop problems later on.
Gallstones cannot be flushed out. Most stones form in the setting of obesity and a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet. The only way to get them to shrink (which happens very slowly) is to lose weight and eat less fat in the diet.
