Pancreatitis: symptoms, treatment and diet

Pancreatitis is a process of inflammation of the pancreas. Inflammation causes a gradual replacement of the pancreatic tissue with fat or scar tissue, or the death of the gland tissue. Most often, those who abuse fatty foods and alcohol suffer from this disease.

Symptoms of pancreatitis

• Pain is usually cutting, blunt. The focus of pain is usually formed under the spoon, and if the entire gland is affected, the pain will be of a shingling nature. Increased temperature and galloping pressure.
• Pale and gray face, pointed features.
• Constant hiccough, nausea, vomiting. In acute pancreatitis, it is better not to eat at all, since the symptoms of nausea and vomiting will torment you constantly.
• Diarrhea or constipation. The chair is usually foamy, extremely unpleasantly smelling, with food that has not been digested. But it can happen and constipation.
• Shortness of breath, sweat and yellow coating on the tongue. In addition, fatty foods are the most important enemy in pancreatitis.
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• Bloating.
• Cyanosis of the skin near the navel and lower back.
• Yellow eye color.

Special attention is required for symptoms in acute pancreatitis:

• Severe colic;
• Vomiting that does not bring relief;
• Tachycardia;
• Abdominal bloating with delayed gases;

Required tests and diagnostics:

• General blood test;
• Biochemistry of blood;
• Urinalysis;
• of the abdominal ultrasound;
• Radiography of the abdominal cavity;
• EGDS;
• ERCP;
• MRI;
• Coprogram;

Treatment of

Usually, in the treatment of acute pancreatitis three rules are followed:

• Absolute rest of the patient is required to reduce blood circulation.
• It is also recommended that you do not eat anything for three days, you can drink only boiled or filtered water.
• In order that the edema and pain symptom from the inflammation even slightly went into decline, you can put something cold in the pancreas.
• Use analgesics with narcotic action and salt solutions.

For particularly acute pancreatitis, it is best to resort immediately to a surgical procedure: in this case, the patient either removes a part of the gland or rinses the abdominal cavity.

Diet

After three days of fasting, one week should be eaten as follows: you need to divide the food 8 times a day for 300g per serving. Food can only be cooked or steamed. Do not eat very hot food or very cold food. In a day: proteins - 80g, fats - 60g, carbohydrates - 280g.

It is recommended to eat: oatmeal, crackers( but only dipping into tea), potato, squash or other purees, jelly.

Here is an example of such a diet:

• First day. You can eat buckwheat, boiled on the serum, a tablespoon once an hour and drink mineral water.
• The second, third day. Observe the first day.
• Fourth day. Instead of whey powder cook on milk fat content no more than 2.5%.The powder can be taken in convenient portions and at any time.
• The fifth day. Follow the regime of the fourth day.
• The sixth day. Eat buckwheat porridge with milk in the morning and evening. In the afternoon you can eat the food mentioned above, of your choice.

On the sixth day, it is recommended to eat a couple more days.

After the patient's state improves, you can proceed to the next stage of the diet: it lasts three months. Per day: proteins - 120 g, fats - 70 g, carbohydrates - 400 g.

It is recommended to eat: chicken, lean fish, a couple of eggs a day, sour-milk products, porridges on the water, fresh vegetables, jelly, tea, compote and to dishes it is desirable to add butter with a restriction of 20 g per day, and vegetable oil - 15 g per day. Just like in a weekly diet, all food should be boiled, baked or steamed.

Can I cope with pancreatitis at home?

If you have not seen a doctor yet, it is best not to take any medications, especially painkillers. To find out if it is possible to treat this inflammation at home, then it is necessary to first diagnose and learn the opinion of the doctor. Do not start self-medication, it can exacerbate the pain symptom.

Here are examples of what can be cured at home:

Potato juice. Grate the potato and squeeze it to 150 ml. Drink such a juice you need 30 minutes before eating a couple of times a day. Every time you need to prepare fresh juice. You can take it only after a three-day hunger strike, which was at the very beginning.

Herbs of herbs .Take in equal proportions: anise, corn stigmas, celandine, dandelion root, mountaineer, violet. For 500ml of water, you need 1 tablespoon and boil this broth for about three minutes. Further insist, strain and take 50 ml for half an hour before meals three times a day. All this must be observed within two weeks.

The second set of herbs for broth: peppermint, dill( seeds), chamomile, immortelle, hawthorn. Cooking should be the same as the previous broth. The only difference is that this broth should be taken within a month and after a meal, not before.

Kalina. First you need to remember: you can neither cool nor heat it, as it will lose its properties. Fruits need to be immersed in warm boiled water: in 300ml of water you need to add just a tablespoon, crush and drink, adding honey. Drink 3 times a day for 1 month at intervals of 2 weeks.

Dandelion. You need to grind the dandelion root and brew this way: 2 teaspoons for 300ml of hot water, and drink a couple of times a day for two months. Repeat this course is necessary every six months.

Tea made from mint with honey. It is necessary to insist mint in such a ratio: in 300ml of hot water, add a teaspoon of mint. Add this teaspoon of honey. It is recommended to drink this infusion a couple of times a day.

Black cumin( butter) with honey. Mix the black cumin oil and acacia honey in the proportions of 2 tablespoons per 300ml of water and use this mixture in the morning before eating 2 tablespoons, with water.

Rosehip( oil). If you take one teaspoon of rose hip oil in the morning before eating, then it will relieve your pain. To consume for 10 days with an interval after that for 2 months. Drizzle with carrot juice. Juice is necessary every time to prepare a lady, it should always be fresh. Use this way: two or three times a day( in the morning before eating), and in the evening replace this mixture with a supper, mix 100ml of juice and 200ml of fresh yogurt.

Boletus broth. Cooking it should be like this: 100g zucchini pour 400ml of water and stew for 40 minutes. Then take out, make a gruel and cook further. Drink 2 times a day.

Chicken stomachs. Preparation: they should not have a natural shell, remove it, dry the stomach and crush to a powder. Take should be ¼ teaspoon in dry form.

Causes of

The most common cause of pancreatitis is alcohol consumption or various diseases of the gallbladder. Usually this is about 97% of all cases. But here are other reasons:

• duodenal disease;
• surgical interventions on the stomach and biliary tract;
• wounds or abdominal injuries;
• reception, for example, antibiotics or estrogens;
• inducing infections, such as, for example, hepatitis or mumps;
• parasitic lesion;
• abnormal phenomena, such as constrictions, glandular tumors, etc.;
• is a metabolic disorder;
• disruption of hormonal work;
• diseases of the vascular system;
• is a hereditary gene of predisposition.

Types of pancreatitis

Usually classified into the following types:

• acute pancreatitis;
• acute pancreatitis with relapse;
• chronic pancreatitis;
• chronic exacerbated pancreatitis.

How the gland can be affected:

• edema;
• deformation;
• fine focal inflammation;
• mild to moderate inflammation;
• is a large focal inflammation;
• necrosis( death) of the entire pancreas.

Prophylaxis

The pancreas is a very dependent organ, and therefore very quickly reacts to absolutely any irritation, even if even the day's regimen is disturbed.

The first thing to remember is to say "no" to alcohol, otherwise the consequences will be sad.

The second - you need to balance your diet and exclude from it fatty, smoked, fried. It is necessary to monitor the amount of fat. You can not lose weight while your pancreas is inflamed, it will negatively affect your course of treatment.

You should go to a medical examination once a year and follow the doctor's recommendations. Also do not forget about diet in pancreatitis.

Complications of pancreatic inflammation:

• dying of gland tissue;
• appearance of a false cyst;
• accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity;
• purulent inflammation of the pancreas;
• complications in the lungs.

If you have chronic pancreatitis, problems with the pancreas can result in diabetes mellitus.