Gallbladders and Children

[Tokie]

Fybye - you live in a pretty small town in Idaho don't you? ( I went to nursing school at ISU) Has your daughter seen a pediatric gastroenterologist? I would recommend a consultation/second opinion with one. And hopefully someone can guide you to a surgeon who is very competent in laparoscopic gall bladder surgery, if it comes to that. Good luck! Tokie By the way - one of our nurses and one of our scrub techs (both) went through exhaustive diagnostic testing for suspected gallstones. They had horrible episodes of colic and both lost lots of weight because eating so frequently caused pain (and they had to eat such a low fat diet to avoid pain). Their diagnostic tests never showed definitive gall stones, but they are both very pleased to have had their laparoscopic gall bladder surgeries. Sometimes the gallstones are tiny, more like sand than stones, and cause the same type of problems as large and obvious gallstones, without showing up on even the most high tech nuclear medicine scans.