Lifestyle or Medication
Gallstones are hardened deposits of digestive fluid that can form in the gallbladder. They are precipitated bile components within the gallbladder and bile ducts and affect about one million Americans per year, which twice as many women are affected more than men. When the stones arise within the gallbladder the bile composition changes or when the muscle activity reduces with pregnancy, the use of oral contraceptives, diabetes mellitus, obesity, cirrhosis, and pancreatitis. In the stones, they consist of principally of cholesterol, bilirubin, and the calcium when in excess. Gallstones can cause no symptoms or signs unless a stone becomes lodged into a duct can cause blockage and the signs and symptoms can result from; back pain between your shoulder blade and right shoulder, to intensifying pain in the center of your abdomen (Mayo Clinic Staff). They may last several minutes to a few hours of pain.
There are several lifestyle changes that a person can help and they include; a sensible diet that is high in fats and low in fiber which prevents the absorption of the bile acids by the liver which starts the formation of the gallstones. To be able to prevent gallstones from forming a person should avoid certain foods such as deep fried foods, black tea, coffee, alcohol, eggs and the list goes on. A person can reduce the risk by no skipping meals, lose the weight slowly and to maintain a healthy weight (Mayo Clinic Staff).
To me it would be hard to avoid all the items on the list to assure a healthy lifestyle and to prevent the changes of gallstones from forming. But if a person would cut back or even eliminate some of the foods it could help out so much. For choosing lifestyle or medication, I would have to choose lifestyle changes since if a person takes so much medication for a long period of time the body starts to reject the medication and then different side effects and others things can happen to the body as a result.