The Amalfi Coast, south of Naples, is still a magnet for wealthy Russians and romantic Americans. Yet Naples itself is a tourist wasteland, and the rest of southern Italy is largely vacationer-free. Only 13 percent of tourists who come to Italy go to the Mezzogiorno, as the south is known.
Depending on where a stone blocks the flow of bile, symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, fever, and severe abdominal pain that lasts longer than 6 hours. If you have these symptoms, you may need surgery to remove your gallbladder or the gallstone causing the blockage.
They sometimes cause problems such as pain, jaundice, pancreatitis, and gallbladder inflammation. Surgery is the usual treatment for gallstones that cause symptoms. Bile is a fluid made in the liver. Bile contains various substances including bile pigments, bile salts, cholesterol and lecithin.