Cholecystitis and pancreatitis: diagnosis, treatment and prevention

Diseases of the digestive tract can lead to a host of other serious problems. The most common among them are pancreatitis and cholecystitis. Treatment includes the use of various folk and medical products, including antibiotics. To understand how to live with pancreatitis and cholecystitis, and how to get rid of them, it is important to know what they are.

Causes and main symptoms of

Pancreatitis is an inflammation of the pancreas, accompanied by inadequate digestion of food by the release of enzymes. This disease, which occurs in an acute form, can lead to death. The main symptoms of pancreatitis are very severe shingles in the upper abdomen, stools, vomiting, dizziness, weakness. The treatment is complex and lengthy, and pills, syrups, droppers, injections here play the same important role as a proper diet.

Cholecystitis is a disease of the gallbladder, which is very often infectious in nature and characterized by inflammatory processes. The risk group is mostly people suffering from cholelithiasis, or overweight. Among the symptoms, it should be noted characteristic dull, aching pain of a permanent nature that occurs in the right hypochondrium. It occurs 1 to 3 hours after ingestion of fried and fatty foods. In addition, there may be a sharp pain, radiating up to the neck and right shoulder. There may be bitterness in the mouth and metallic taste, flatulence, nausea, belching of air, insomnia, irritability and defecation. Various painkillers, of course, will help to reduce the intensity of pain, but this is only a temporary measure, unable to stop the development of the disease. Treatment is long and complicated. Various medications are used, including tablets.

These two diseases occur, usually due to the abuse of unhealthy foods, irregular eating and overeating.

In addition, not infrequently the cause is excessive consumption of alcohol-containing beverages.

What should be the treatment?

One should always remember that cure for pancreatitis and cholecystitis can not be quickly achieved. Used expensive drugs, herbs and physiotherapy.

Antibiotics are first prescribed to suppress the infection that caused the inflammatory process. Simultaneously with them, the conditions that lead to active multiplication of bacteria are eliminated, a normal outflow of pancreatic juice and bile is established.

A patient must follow a special diet without fail. It consists mainly of protein-rich, low-fat, fermented milk products, which include kefir, and a variety of digestible dishes. Possible complications

In acute pancreatitis may cause perforation of the gall bladder, which develops due to bile peritonitis flowing from the outset very rapidly( massive infection, extensive damage to the peritoneum, toxic and septic shock).His treatment may include even surgical intervention.

In acute cholecystitis, pericholecystitis can occur with deformation of the gallbladder, when it fuses with other internal organs. As a result, there are fistulas, liver abscesses, ascending cholangitis and subdiaphragmatic abscess, whose treatment is difficult.

In some cases, with acute cholecystitis, pancreatitis can also be observed in the form of a swollen form, which changes the entire clinical picture. Analyzes will help the doctor determine the exact diagnosis.

Diet

Those who have found gastritis, cholecystitis and pancreatitis, helps heal and get rid of the pain a special diet. With these two diseases it is important to know that:

• daily water norm should be 2-3 liters;
• products consumed per day should not exceed 3.5 kg by weight( depending on the characteristics of the organism);
• power must necessarily be a fraction;
• all smoked, pickled, fried and salty foods are excluded from food;
• containing carbohydrates and fats products are completely removed from the diet;
• focuses on food that contains proteins and is easily digested by the body. From a vegetable it can be a pumpkin, but only cooked, or cooked for a couple. Milk drinks are recommended from low-fat kefir;
• soups should be lean, and cooked on water. They add beetroots( if desired), but only in a well-cooked form. In addition, the lean soup, which includes oats, is a very nutritious dish( the recipe can be peeked on the net);
• is inadmissible to use such products as mushrooms, chocolate, legumes, fatty meat, canned food, baked pastry and spices;
• you can use only lean meat, and low-fat dairy products, for example, kefir. Stewed vegetables, all kinds of cereals( containing oats and other cereals), low-fat sour-milk products are digested very well. Cabbage, beets, eggplant and pumpkin in fresh form are excluded completely. Fatty soups are very well replaced with light vegetable, containing cereals( oats, for example), cauliflower, zucchini. You can fill them with cream, or with sour cream. If anyone likes, you can add kefir. A variety of recipes for dietary meals can be found online.

  Diseases such as gastritis, cholecystitis, pancreatitis, and the like are treated long enough. It is important to follow exactly the recommendations of the attending physician, who will take the necessary tests, and will put an accurate diagnosis. The use of easily digestible products of vegetable origin, which include pumpkin, for example, and fat-free fermented milk products( kefir, ryazhenka) will help to make up for lost trace elements and nutrients in the body.

  Useful video about the treatment of cholecystitis