Pancreatitis is a common disease of the gastrointestinal tract. Depending on the severity of the disease, distinguish between acute and chronic forms of pancreatitis. In the treatment apply a systematic approach, one of the points of which is the right diet.
Description of the disease
Pancreatitis is a chronic inflammatory process in the pancreas. The main causes of the pathology are:
- Malnutrition;
- Alcohol abuse;
- Gallstone disease;
- Secondary infections.
The most pronounced symptom of the disease is pain syndrome, especially after eating. The pain is localized in the hypochondrium, under the spoon, can be shrouded in nature.
Other symptoms appear in the pale complexion of the patient's face, fever, or irregular pressure, stools, vomiting, nausea, bloating, shortness of breath, and jaundice.
First aid
The acute course of the disease leads to relapses that develop with lightning speed and are accompanied by fever and severe pain in the area of the inflamed gland. First of all, the patient needs:
- Put a dropper with saline solution;
- Take painkillers, for example ketorolac;
- Take antisecretory - squamut, octreotide;
- Take antiemetic - metoclopramide.
The cause of exacerbations and relapses is a violation of the diet. For this reason, patients who have already encountered with acute pancreatitis are worried about the correct use of certain products. In particular, it is often the question of whether it is possible to eat yogurt in pancreatitis.
Use of yogurt
Yogurt in pancreatitis is not only permitted, but even shown to patients. Its usefulness is as follows:
- Yogurt in pancreatitis is a natural source of animal protein, which helps restore cells of the gland. Casein splits easily enough, because its processing does not load the pancreas.
- Since pancreatitis is often accompanied by intestinal disorders and dysbacteriosis, in particular, yogurt can be used as a natural source of fermented bacteria that restore the intestinal microflora.
- There are pancreatitis and such a problem as frequent constipation. With them, you can also fight with yogurt, which have a mild laxative effect, activating intestinal peristalsis.
- Pancreatitis can be accompanied by lactose insufficiency. Sour-milk bacteria of yogurt partially break down lactose, which helps to restore its deficiency in the body.
- Yogurt can be eaten at least because its soft enveloping effect promotes better work of the stomach, and also brings to the body a lot of micro- and macro elements, vitamins and organic acids.
What should be the yogurt
However, all these useful properties apply only to one type of drinks. In store yogurt there is no share of useful substances for the body, especially with pancreatic disease. In addition, the shop yogurt contains:
- Dyes;
- Thickeners;
- Flavors;
- Preservatives.
All these substances are strictly forbidden in pancreatitis, as they can exacerbate the disease, cause a relapse and lead to a poor state of health of the patient.
Homemade yogurts, on the other hand, have all the necessary substances. For cooking, you need only milk and bacterial leaven, which can be purchased at the pharmacy. For the preparation of home-made yoghurts, yoghurt makers are often used today, which allow you to get a delicious and healthy product for several hours without the participation of a person in the cooking process.
Use in relapse
Is it possible to eat yogurt if a person experiences an exacerbation of pancreatitis? Only an endocrinologist can precisely answer this question for each specific case.
In general, the permitted product is administered only twenty days after the recurrence of the disease, the fat content of the yogurt should not be more than 1%.First, the patient is given only one-third of the glass a day. Then the dosage can be increased gradually, up to one glass per day.
Yogurt can be consumed as an alternative to kefir. Drink it is recommended separately from other dishes, as a snack or dinner. In this case, the stomach is not filled with other food, and yogurt can fulfill its enveloping function and be better processed by the intestine.
Use in remission of
For chronic pancreatitis and exacerbations, yogurt with a fat content of up to 3.5% is allowed. For a variety of tastes and complementing the medicinal properties of this product, it can be added to:
- Fresh fruits;
- Berries;
- Sweeteners;
- Honey;
- Jam;
- Syrups;
- Juices.
Also it can be used as a dressing for desserts and fruit salads, as an additive to the baking test, water casseroles, biscuits and other desserts.
Buy a quality product in the store is quite difficult. It is necessary to pay attention to the fact that in the composition there were no thickeners, dyes, flavors, preservatives. Patients better prepare his home from natural home-made milk.
Chemical Composition
The product per hundred gram contains:
- 4.1 g of proteins;
- 5.8 g of carbohydrates;
- 1.6 g of fat;
- 57 kcal.
Among the vitamins in the drink contains vitamins of group B, in particular, В1,2,5,6,9.In addition, yogurt contains vitamins D, C, H, PP, A. Mineral substances in yogurt contain elements: chlorine, magnesium, nuggets, iron, molybdenum, cobalt, potassium, iodine, zinc, copper, sulfur, selenium, phosphorus.
General recommendations of
Patients with pancreatitis are prescribed a specially developed therapeutic diet, which in most cases excludes the consumption of fatty foods. In addition, patients are recommended to be more often in the open air, to walk at a moderate pace, thus performing moderate physical activity.
You should not overeat, you need to eat a little, but more often than usual - up to six times a day. Nerves and stress, insomnia and depression can also have a detrimental effect on the course of the disease, since they greatly alter the hormonal background. Since the pancreas is an organ and an endocrine system, hormonal changes can affect it quite strongly.
With the right diet, advice from the gastroenterologist and recommendations for a healthy lifestyle, the likelihood of recurrence tends to zero, and the chronic course of the disease does not reduce the quality of life of the patient.
