Cholangitis

. Lactobacillus and bifidobacteria probiotics can reduce clinical symptoms of pouchitis and cholangitis.

Contraindications for choleretics and cholagogues

• • • The effects of choleretic and cholagogue agents may be different in the diseased liver than the response produced in the normal liver. For example, experimental evidence suggests that the use of choleretic agents where hepatobiliary damage (e.g. cholangitis) is caused by obstructive jaundice might further depress hepatic functions.
    • Obstructed bile ducts (due to impacted gallstones, cholangitis or cancer of the bile duct or pancreas)