Category: Drinks

No Gallbladder & Drinks category covers what to drink and what not to drink without a gallbladder.

Drinking Rum

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Drinking Rum Without Gallbladder

Drinking Tanduay Dark Rhum

According to Wikipedia:

Rum is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from sugarcane by-products such as molasses, or, directly from sugarcane juice, by a process of fermentation and distillation. The distillate, a clear liquid, is then usually aged in oak barrels.

Dark Rum, also known by the rum’s particular colour as brown rum, black rum, or red rum, classes as a grade darker than gold rum. It is generally aged longer, in heavily charred barrels. Dark rum has a much stronger flavor than either light or gold rum, and hints of spices can be detected, along with a strong molasses or caramel overtone. It is used to provide substance in rum drinks, as well as color.

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First shot of beer

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Drinking Beer

I had my first glass of San Miguel Beer Pale Pilsen!

7 months after my Lap Chole (Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy) operation, I found myself holding an icy San Miguel beer. Not just holding the glass but drinking the beer.

First reaction – I almost forgot the taste of cold San Miguel Beer. I waited some minutes for my system to react to the beer. And since it was a round-robin shots, I had ample time to feel how my stomach would react. But I only had the normal system reaction – burping. Then I had some more shots and I feel no stomach pain, no adverse reaction.

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Yakult – Probiotic drink

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No gallbladder and Yakult

Persons without gallbladder may get benefits from drinking probiotic drinks.

Yakult is a probiotic drink, a fermented dairy drink that contains Lactobaciillus casei Shirota bacteria. These live microorganisms when taken in adequate amounts provides health benefit, it helps correct the imbalances of the digestive system.

According to Yakult Japan:

The aim of probiotics is the use of beneficial that migrate to the intestine for the maintenance and promotion of good health.

Yakult provides friendly bacteria (Lactobacillus casei Shirota strain) in the gut that destroy the harmful bacteria living in the intestines.
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