Bile

Question: How do you assist the body in producing bile? How do you assist the body in producing bile? My mom just puked out over a litre of bile. What can she do to produce more? Or increase bile production in the liver?

Answer: Eat saturated fats. Like coconut oil, and butter.

Question: What ill effects do moon bears experience from bile harvesting? I am already aware that they are confined in tiny cages, given surgical stomas, left with insufficient food and infected wounds, and so on. I am NOT planning to harvest bear bile. I am interested in what conditions and problems can result from nutritional deficiencies resulting SPECIFICALLY from not having the use of a digestive fluid (bile) because it is being harvested.

Answer: Without any bile, they would not be able to absorb dietary fats effectively. They would not be getting as many nutrients from the food that they were eating. This could also cause a problem with absorbing fat-soluble vitamins. The vitamins that are most affected are calcium, vitamin D, and vitamin K. So long-term, there would be bone health issues (which would probably occur even with adequate nutrition given the lack of weight-bearing exercise they can do in tiny cages). Lack of vitamin K can lead to clotting problems and bleeding. Essentially, you have one half of the symptoms of cholestasis. In cholestasis, there is a blockage of the flow of bile into the intestines. The symptoms are from two separate causes: lack of bile in the intestines, and also the backup of bile in the body. In the bears, you only have the one problem, that of a lack of bile in the intestine. So if you consider the symptoms of cholestasis that are related to lack of bile in the intestine, it should be a fairly good picture of the effects.

Question: What do I do to prevent bile from rising to the back of my throat during my exercises? Well I a few months ago I started to do ab exercises, the basic crunches and bicycle motion one, though after a few reps bile would come up my throat. After this repeatedly happening I had to stop, because it started to "burn" the back of my throat. This would happen even if I hadn't eaten before starting my exercises and drinking water in between sets. ok It's probably not bile. I think it is stomach acid. My dad has chronic acid reflux... so I don't know if that might have been passed down to me.

Answer: Bile? It could be stomach acid. You could have Gastrointestinal Reflux. Or you could be exercising the abs waaaay too much. As the ab muscles contract they impinge on the stomach and intestines. The pressure puts strain on the stomach and forces the sphincter muscle to open allowing stomach acid to seep out. When you are on your back stomach acids come up the esophagus and does indeed burn like the dickens. For the bicycle pedal you could come up on your elbows, therefore creating a mini-crunch on your lower abdominals. Check with your doctor. GRD is nasty and painful.

Question: If they remove your bile, the toxins filtered by the liver will go to the intestines how? I know people can live without their bile(how - I suppose on a rigid diet, right?), but the liver needs to dump the toxins it filtered from the blood. How will this be done, if the bile is cut out? Is there a special conduct only for this purpose?

Answer: The bile is not going to be removed. If you have gallstones or malfunctions of your gall bladder, the gall bladder may be removed by surgery. The gall (bile), produced by the liver will then directly flow into the intestines without any storage by a bladder. It may sometimes create problems when you east fatty food since that would require for digestion more bile than what is continuously produced. But your body will adjust.

Question: How can I tell if there is bile in vomit? My teenage brother as thrown up a few times in the last 24 hours and we know theres blood in it but theres something else in it too. Its not food, the vomit doesnt smell and our mum thinks its bile... How can we tell? And should we worry?

Answer: The quickest answer I can safely give is go to the ER IMMEDIATELY. Blood in vomit is NOT a good sign and that alone can cause many other problems including infections, or also be a sign of ulcers or other problems. Vomit can be odorless, because it is normally a combination of acid from the stomach and processed foods. I cannot answer if it is bile, but the blood being there is a serious, if not fatal sign. Go to the ER or Clinic ASAP!

Question: Are there other ways you can release bile besides throwing it up? Like, not surgery or stuff. Can you remove bile by going to the bathroom and taking a dump?

Answer: Bile is released into the intestines all the time by the gall bladder where it is concentrated and stored, it is one of the pigments that make your stool brown. Bile release is controlled by the body in response to dietary needs, it helps in digestion,. If there is a blockage in the ducts that carry the bile out of the liver a yellowish tint in the skin may occur. I know of no way this can be helped except by medical or surgical intervention. There is to my knowledge no way to consciously release bile.

Question: How do I help someone who is throwing up bile? My brother is throwing up bile. He hasn't been drinking, he is just really sick. Is there any type of medicine he can take? Or anything he should/shouldnt do?

Answer: Go to the doctor straight away. Since August this year, I've been throwing up bile. Its a horrible feeling and it can damage the lining of the oesophagus greatly. I've been to the doctor three times. The first time the doctor said it was a chest infection and gave me antibiotics. The antibiotics got rid of my fever and vomiting, but not the cough and bile. The second time he said go for a chest xray and then he changed his mind and instead just put me on extra strong antibiotics (called Augmentin Duo, if that helps. They're really good, next to steriods, and work very well - except for me, because I'm an extreme case). The THIRD time he said get an xray, he gave me steroids and now I'm being tested for asthma. It's especially embarrasing when I have to leave class to "cough-up". Make sure he's not swallowing the phlegm (bile) because this could lead to vomitting (which also damages the linging of the oesophagus). Get him to blow his nose very often because this can be an alternative to coughing and gets rid of the excess bile. If this is prolonged, seriously he must go to a doctor. Really, do try to help your brother. I wish someone had tried to help me....=(

Question: What does it mean when you throw up yellow bile from a lite night of drinking? I drank a couple of margaritas and then the next morning I felt terrible and threw up but all I threw up was yellow bile, I had eaten a lot of food the past night. I think something might be wrong with my liver or something because the same thing happend when i only took two shots of tequila. Can my body not handle liquor?

Answer: Throwing up bile isn't good. After that there is just blood and that's even worse. Sounds like you needed more to eat, of you could have had a bacteria or viral stomach infection.

Question: Can high concentrations of bile salts inhibit pancreatic lipase activity? I know that, at certain concentrations, bile salts increase the activity of lipase but i read that at concentrations which are too high; the lipase is inhibited. Is this true?

Answer: Yes -but because of colipase the lipases work,see below. Lipases are inactive on an emulsified triglyceride substrate in the presence of micellar concentrations of bile salts, such as those found in the small intestine during digestion. Bile salts are amphiphilic molecules mainly found adsorbed at the oil-water interface or dispersed as mixed micelles in solution. The bile salt coating of triglyceride globules prevents the pancreatic lipase adsorption, and thus lipolysis, at the oil-water interface. However, colipase, a specific lipase-anchoring protein present in the exocrine secretion of pancreas, counteracts this effect through the formation of a specific 1:1 complex with lipase that facilitates its adsorption at bile salt-covered lipid-water interface.

Question: What does it mean to have sluggish bile? The doctor told me I might have sluggish bile. I have to get another blood test next week to see if my bile level is fluctuating. What could it mean if it is? And what does bile level indicate? Is sluggish bile conducive to chronic constipation?

Answer: It is also know as cholestasis. Cholestasis is a condition where bile cannot flow from the liver to the duodenum.

Question: What happens to bile in the small intestines? I know bile is released into the duodenum so fat can be absorbed into the blood stream. Then where does the bile go? It says in a book that its suppsed to be absorbed into the blood stream. I thought you poop it out along with bilirubin. Any experts out there? Also, I thought the pancreas makes bicarbonate to neutralize acid in the small intestine. Does it also make acid (gastrin)? I thought stomach makes that Thank you

Answer: A part of bile acids are reabsorbed with fat and a part of them transformed to other bile acids by the bacterias and absorbed, this establishes a cycle of bile, they are recycled in a way, the rest is eleminated. Pancreatic juice is a liquid secreted by the pancreas into the small intestines which includes different digestive enzymes and indeed it´s alkaline due to its high concentration of bicarbonate ions this is useful in neutralizing the acidic gastric acid.

Question: How do I remove bile smell from my dog's ear? My dog vomited bile and some got on her ear. I bathed her this morning with baby shampoo and dog conditioner. I lathered and rinsed twice, but the smell of bile is still faintly present. Any ideas on how to remove the odor? She is an 8 year old beagle, with floppy ears. She was just at the vet yesterday. She doesn't have an ear infection. The bile just got on the end of her ear, farthers from her head. He ear itself if healthy, just stinky from getting vomit on it. SHe spent nearly 12 hours at the vet yesterday getting meds and fluids, she is recouping from an upset digestive system. She's doing much better today, thanks.

Answer: put her in the bathtub and push warm soapy water in her ear. Then let her shake it out when you're drying her.

Question: Would you consider BILE from animals non vegetarian or non vegan? I'm vegetarian But I haven't been eating things like Monoglycerides which are associated with bile and pancreatic juices. And although most of them are APPARENTLY vegetable, I still wouldn't take the chance. But I haven't thought about this until now that this is kind of like eating milk products because they are both enzymes synthesized by animals.

Answer: Bile is used in meat digestion and most herbivores don't have bile or the gall bladder that produces them. whether to consume bile or any other animal sourced products is an individual choice. Certainly, no one is going to sue you for using or consuming meat/milk/animal prducts. Just go with what you think is right. A piece of trivia: there is local dish here that uses bile itself as a flavoring.

Question: What does it mean when you only puke stomach bile? After every night i get really drunk, the next day my stomach cramps up and when i puke the only thing that comes up is that greenish yellow stomach bile.

Answer: thts stomach acid

Question: What to eat after vomiting a lot of bile? This morning I threw up a lot of bright green bile. I'm guessing this was due to drinking the previous night. Well I haven't eaten all day, but I'm afraid to eat from fear of throwing up. Should I eat low-fat food, since I have a low supply of bile in my body? Thanks.

Answer: start with just clear liquids, things like jello, broth, water, apple juice. If you can keep those down, then move on to soft foods like yogurt, mashed potatoes etc. Consider cutting back or quitting the alchol intake.

Question: Why can the backlash of bile salts into the stomach can lead to stomach ulcers? Why can the backlash of bile salts into the stomach can lead to stomach ulcers?

Answer: It can lead to the stomach being hypoacidic - meaning that the lining changes both structurally and thus functionally. I have the same problem, and I've never been told that it leads to ulcers - but a biopsy has demonstrated that the lining of my stomach has changed. It does (for me) affect the entire digestive tract. Good luck