The effectiveness of pancreatitis treatment depends largely on the products and drinks that the patient uses. With strict adherence to diet, the patient is less likely to be worried about exacerbations of pancreatic inflammation. With a list of allowed products is more or less clear - all fatty, smoked, salty dishes are excluded, but what about the drinks? Everyone knows about the benefits of mineral water, but can it be used in pancreatitis?
Currently, on the shelves of shops and pharmacies there is a wide variety of mineral water, which differ from each other in composition, price and type of packaging. Water, obtained from underground depths, contains sodium, iron, magnesium, fluorine, potassium and other chemical elements that have beneficial effects on the human body. Scientists have proved that mineral water in pancreatitis is one of the non-medicinal methods of treating the disease.
Mineral water in acute pancreatitis
During acute exacerbation of the pancreas, the patient should be on a fasting diet. For three to four days, you are not allowed to eat anything, only you can drink water to the patient. Also, doctors allow you to occasionally take a mineral water, which should belong to a series of hydrocatabatic waters of a gentle gasification. The temperature of the water being drunk is important - it should be slightly warm. If simple requirements are met, mineral water in pancreatitis will have the following effect:
- Reduction of pain syndrome with antispastic effect;
- Anti-inflammatory effect;
- Reduction of the negative effect of activated enzymes.
Mineral water prepares the digestive system for food intake, after a three-day fasting.
Use of mineral water for chronic pancreatitis
The list of permitted minerals for chronic disease remains the same as in acute form. Highly aerated water is not desirable to drink, it can provoke an exacerbation of a subsiding disease. With the help of mineral water, the outflow of bile and pancreatic juice from the bile ducts increases, which helps to improve the patient's well-being. Mineralku must be drunk in a heated form, hot water can cause swelling of the gland, and cold provoke spasm of the muscle valve. Doctors recommend drinking mineral water not more than three glasses a day, otherwise all the beneficial properties of the drink can result in negative consequences.
Mechanism of treatment
Mineralka refers to one of the ways to treat pancreatitis - groundwater contains a huge amount of nutrients. Mineral water is almost the only natural medicine with which you can regulate the process of the digestive system and as a consequence of the pancreas.
Medium or weakly mineralized water can stimulate or inhibit the production of pancreatic juice. This occurs under the influence of sulfates and hydrocarbons, contained in water from underground sources. If you drink a glass of mineral water during lunch or dinner, the gastric juice begins to be produced more actively, and as a result, the exocrine cells of the pancreas begin to become more active. However, if the mineral water is drunk one hour before a meal, then the pancreatic juice is suspended.
What kind of mineral water to drink in pancreatitis can only be told by the attending physician. Most often these are Yessentuki No20 and No4, Arkhyz, Smirnovskaya, Slavyanovskaya and others. With inflammation of the pancreas, all cholagogue ducts are inflamed and filled with bile, which can provoke a strong exacerbation. The patient will feel strong pain in the hypochondrium, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea.
At the initial stage of treatment with mineral water, one should not drink a glass at a time - this can adversely affect the digestive and inflamed pancreas. The first day is recommended to use no more than a quarter of a glass, and in the absence of unpleasant sensations in the gland, increase consumption to one glass.
Useful properties and types
Water from underground subsurface can differ among themselves by the predominance of certain useful substances. For the classification of groundwater is taken into account the content in one liter of the drink a certain amount of minerals. On the shelves you can see the following kinds of mineral water:
- Drinking dining room. This water can be consumed in large quantities, so little is the content of minerals and salts. It is generally accepted that this amount is about one gram.
- Mineral dining room. In this type of water, the content of mineral salts does not exceed two grams per liter.
- Mineral medicinal-table water. The use of this type of water should not exceed a certain norm, because the salt content in it varies from 2 to 8 grams per liter. These are quite high indicators, which oblige a person to pay more attention to this type of mineral water.
- Therapeutic mineral water. In this type of water from underground sources, the salt content exceeds the figure of 8 grams per liter. You can drink this water only after the appointment of a doctor.
Pancreatitis refers to this type of disease, in the treatment of which an important role is played not only by medicines, but also by a certain lifestyle of the patient. With chronic inflammation of the pancreas, a person must constantly monitor their diet, exclude from the usual diet all fatty, salty, smoked dishes, alcoholic beverages.
One of the allowed drinks is a mineral water, which not only quenches thirst, but is very useful. Mineral water can be drunk with pancreatitis only table and medical and not more than three glasses a day. It is desirable to combine its use with food intake, and not on an empty stomach. The average water temperature should be about 36-40 degrees, and weak gasification.
