What digestion function is impaired when the gallbladder is removed?

Answer 1

Gallbladder is a sac for holding some bile that is produced by the liver for the body to brake down and digest fats. with or without a gallbladder, the liver is still producing bile; however, the bile is not as readily secreted in the body, and the liver can become overwhelmed when it faces with a large amount of fats (especially saturated and hydrogenated fats). This leads to the difficulty of digesting fats; small amount of fats can cause discomfort. Secondly, the dumping of bile is now not as easy to be regulated which can cause diarrhea after eating. Finally, after the gallbladder being removed, the bile produced by the liver becomes thick and sluggish, painful symptoms and bile stones in the liver (particularly in the common hepatic duct) can occur.

Answer 2

The gallbladder stores bile produced by the liver. Bile is used to emulsify fats, increasing the surface area to volume ratio of the fats, thus making them more easily broken down by lipases (enzymes that break down fats) and absorbed by the cells lining the intestine. Once your gallbladder is removed, you still produce bile in the liver and that bile can still arrive in your small intestine through the same bile duct that was previously attached to both liver and gallbladder. The duct remains, and thus the function of the gallbladder as storage of bile is lost, but the bile can still get to the small intestine.

Answer 3

Controls the amount of fat used and stored in the body.

Answer 4

bile