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Suggest Treatment For Obstructive Jaundice
Hi, I am Piyush Need a help for my granny.
She is 74 years old. and she is having an obstructive jaundice.
Doctors doubted that it has started from mid dec 2014, but she was quite normal in all daily work and food habit. From first week of january we found that she used to feel very itchy, and her food interest was very less, her loo color was also whitish, so we went for blood test and ultrasonography and found her jaundice level is 16 %. Doctors told as it is an obstructive jaundice so she has to go under surgery.
But she is scared and doesn't wanna go under sugerical procedure.
Can you help me decide what shall we do and how her diet should be?
When we did a blood test we found her Hemoglobin count is 11 but jaundice level is more now as 18 %.
Can you suggest some good way of diet and treatment which will help her.
As right now she is having only fruit juices and light meal as more boiled rice or milk with "TIKHUR" (A HINDI WORD).
She is 74 years old. and she is having an obstructive jaundice.
Doctors doubted that it has started from mid dec 2014, but she was quite normal in all daily work and food habit. From first week of january we found that she used to feel very itchy, and her food interest was very less, her loo color was also whitish, so we went for blood test and ultrasonography and found her jaundice level is 16 %. Doctors told as it is an obstructive jaundice so she has to go under surgery.
But she is scared and doesn't wanna go under sugerical procedure.
Can you help me decide what shall we do and how her diet should be?
When we did a blood test we found her Hemoglobin count is 11 but jaundice level is more now as 18 %.
Can you suggest some good way of diet and treatment which will help her.
As right now she is having only fruit juices and light meal as more boiled rice or milk with "TIKHUR" (A HINDI WORD).
Fri, 20 Feb 2015
HI
FIRST OF I WUD STRESS UPON U THAT TREATMENT OF OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE IS RELIEVING OBSTRUCTION BY WAY OF STENTING OR SURGERY .AS FAR AS DIET IS CONCERNED SHE SHOULD BE ON LOW FAT DIET.BUT I STRONGLY FEEL U NEED TO COUNSEL AND CONVINCE HER TO UNDERGO THE PROCEDURE TO PREVENT FURTHER DREADED COMPLICATIONS LIKE CHOLANGITIS
THANKS
DR PRANAY BUDKULE
FIRST OF I WUD STRESS UPON U THAT TREATMENT OF OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE IS RELIEVING OBSTRUCTION BY WAY OF STENTING OR SURGERY .AS FAR AS DIET IS CONCERNED SHE SHOULD BE ON LOW FAT DIET.BUT I STRONGLY FEEL U NEED TO COUNSEL AND CONVINCE HER TO UNDERGO THE PROCEDURE TO PREVENT FURTHER DREADED COMPLICATIONS LIKE CHOLANGITIS
THANKS
DR PRANAY BUDKULE
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