Gallstones: I could not dress, go to the hospital

When the bile is too concentrated, it may form gallstones if it contains excess cholesterol, bilirubin or less bile salts. [Courtesy]

Richard Kavita started feeling excruciating pain in his abdomen but could not dress himself to go to hospital. That was in 2019. “I had zero symptoms, it just came abruptly in the middle of the night. At first I thought it was normal abdominal pain but it persisted for like an hour and I had to be taken to the hospital,” recalls Kavita, who lives in Machakos County.