Do I need antibiotics for pancreatitis?

Before taking antibiotics prescribed by a doctor for pancreatitis, it is important to find out some of the most serious questions. This article is devoted to them.

Pancreatitis - this is. ..

- not a single disease but a group of pathologies, which brings together an important sign - inflammation of the pancreas.

Pancreas rather be called "zazheludochnoy" because it is there, but the name given to physicians who have studied the anatomy of the dead bodies, and in the supine position the body really is under the stomach.

Despite the modest size( up to 10 cm in adults), the role of the pancreas in the process of digestion and normal life of the body is invaluable.

The body produces up to two liters of pancreatic juice per day, which contains 22 enzymes.

These substances fall into the duodenum, which encloses the pancreas, and processed proteins, fats and carbohydrates for energy and building blocks for body cells.

Also, iron maintains a constant level of blood sugar, regulating the increase or decrease in its quantity.

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For various reasons, the pancreas can become inflamed, then the habitual rhythm of her work will be disturbed.

She continues to produce the enzyme saturation with pancreatic juice, but can not inject it into the duodenum - starts the process of digestion the body itself.

With acute pancreatitis, which always develops rapidly enough, there is a risk of developing a necrotic process - necrosis of tissues.

Detoxify and enter the bloodstream of toxins that circulate throughout the body through the bloodstream, reaching the heart, brain, lungs, kidneys and liver.

to pancreatitis can result in hereditary factors, but in most cases, pancreatitis develops due to the increased load that the person creates on your digestive system.

One of the most common causes of pancreatitis is alcohol abuse. Serious burden also has heavy food, especially fatty and fried.

Treatment with drugs that have a side effect on the pancreas can also cause pancreatitis. Infectious inflammation, trauma, increased acidity of gastric juice can also provoke pancreatitis.

main problem pancreatitis - diagnosis

One of the features of the post-Soviet medicine - large, compared with Western countries, the number of serious diagnoses related to the gastrointestinal tract.

The number of pancreatitis is particularly high, which is in third place after appendicitis and cholecystitis.

Addressing a doctor with complaints from the digestive tract, usually ends with a diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis, which in countries with more developed medicine doctors generally try to avoid.

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A widespread phenomenon of overdiagnosis is that physicians( functionalists and diagnosticians) interpret the manifestation of a functional norm as a pathology of the work of a particular organ and put the usual diagnoses with insufficient manifestation of symptoms.

One example is an increased echogenicity of the pancreas on ultrasound, that is, on the screen the doctor sees that this organ is lighter than the liver.

However, such a picture - the norm in adults, and is not the reason for the diagnosis of pancreatitis.

Another common example of overdiagnosis is chronic and acute pancreatitis in children. At the same time many factors are immediately alarming.

First, how can children manage to load the pancreas so much? Secondly, these diagnoses are almost never confirmed in adults, although pancreatitis is a disease that is only completely cured in special cases.

Third, the child's digestive system is only being formed, and in this process failures are normal.

In chronic pancreatitis or cholecystitis, children are often treated a significant part of their life - at home and in hospitals, their personality is formed under the influence of another dangerous factor - hospitalism.

As a result, adults grow up not only with disrupted physical health( "healed" children), but also psychologically disadvantaged.

Exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis is one of the common causes of abortion. The woman can not eat, the temperature rises, the tone of the uterus increases, the doctors propose to terminate the pregnancy, and the woman agrees, frightened and exhausted.

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If you separate each case, it turns out that pancreatitis is a secondary condition, for example, in cholecystitis( inflammation of the gallbladder with the formation of stones).

Pancreatitis can cause even treatment, for example, taking antibiotics, a large number of drugs or trauma to the pancreatic duct during diagnosis.

Antibiotics for the treatment of pancreatitis

Antibiotics for cholecystitis or pancreatitis are prescribed to suppress infection and relieve inflammation.

Antibacterial treatment is justified due to the presence of a high number of microorganisms - important participants in the digestive process, which, in the inflammatory process, can play for the opponent's team and worsen the patient's condition.

However, while agreeing to take any antibiotics and in general to any treatment, it is important to remember the difficulties with setting the right diagnosis in the modern medicine of the post-Soviet school.

1. only a very competent specialist can take into account all the subtleties of the effects of antibiotics on the body( for example, the adaptation of flora to drugs), so orienting when choosing antibiotics for reviews is not the best idea;
2. agreeing to antibiotics, as well as any other medical measures, you need to make sure of the accuracy of the diagnosis. Of course, it is not so easy to observe these conditions: it is easy for a specialist to get rid of a patient with difficult words or outline dark prospects, after which the patient agrees to any treatment, just to absolve himself of the responsibility for possible consequences of procrastination with taking medications in pancreatitis.

   Nevertheless, the patient as anyone is interested in their own health and must defend their own interests.

   Who, if not me? This is the first question that it is important to ask yourself and understand that no doctor is interested in your welfare more than you.

   Ask questions and observe the doctor's reaction. Whether the doctor tries to answer clearly, intimidates, offers alternatives?

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   Read medical literature about your pathology. Let you understand not all, but even individual moments may coincide with the opinion of your attending physician or contradict him.

   Consult other clinics with other specialists who are not interested in maintaining the version of your doctor.

   In any case, you do not have to entrust your health to other people, but if you try to understand your own condition and the peculiarities of treating pancreatitis, you definitely will not make yourself worse.