Letters to the editor. Vol. 68, No. 2 (1987)

Nowadays, to prevent exacerbation of chronic cholecystitis it is recommended to follow a strict diet, in particular to limit consumption of fats. But it is known that fats and some other foodstuffs cause shrinkage of gallbladder, free it from bile and possible presence of gallstones and bacteria. Any violation of the outflow of bile from the gallbladder, stagnation of bile in it contributes to the formation of gallstones and the development of infection in the bladder, and therefore exacerbation or appearance of cholecystitis.