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.
The risk of forming gallstones increases with: 1  Pregnancy. 2  Obesity. 3  Diabetes. Smoking.  Rapid weight 1  loss. Having a close relative with gallstones.  Taking certain medicines such as the contraceptive 1  pill. Eating a generally unhealthy diet, particularly a diet which is high  in fat.