Question
My son has been complaining of stomach pain since last week. After a hospital check-up, it turned out to be cholangitis. However, today he mistakenly drank alcohol thinking it was a beverage. Can children with cholangitis drink alcohol?
Answer
Children with cholangitis definitely cannot drink alcohol, nor should they consume greasy and spicy foods. Cholangitis is caused by various reasons, leading to active movement of the worms in the bile duct, which then drill into the bile duct, resulting in acute upper abdominal pain and cholangitis. During an attack, the patient experiences severe pain, nausea, vomiting, chills, and fever. Abdominal pain is often a sudden, intense piercing pain under the sternum, commonly seen in school children aged six to eight years old.