Pancreatitis in children

Pancreatitis in children is an extremely serious diagnosis, given the importance of the pancreas for a person's full life.

Earlier the average age of the incidence of pancreatitis was 50 years, today the disease is younger, and the average age is 39 years. Increased and the number of diseases in children.

What are the reasons for setting as many diagnoses as acute and chronic pancreatitis in children?

How to figure out if the child is really sick and how to pick up the menu, if the pancreas really is not okay?

Basic facts about pancreatitis

Pancreatitis is not a separate diagnosis, but a combination of various diseases, the symptoms of which include inflammation of the pancreas.

The pancreas performs an indispensable role in digestion and is a vital organ.

Not so long ago it was believed that a person is not able to live without this part of the body, but today more and more cases of quite normal life even after removal of the pancreas.

Nevertheless, one can not even compare the quality of life with a fully functioning, sick and absent body.

The pancreas produces more than one liter of pancreatic juice every day, which contains more than two dozen enzymes that break down fats, proteins and carbohydrates, a source of building material and energy for cells.

Thyroid hormones maintain a constant level of sugar in the blood, which is also an important part of the energy metabolism in the body.

Its violation - diabetes mellitus, significantly complicates a carefree existence.

Normally pancreatic juice along with enzymes are injected into the duodenum, where they participate in digestion.

However, with pancreatitis this does not happen, the juice remains inside the body and begins to digest it.

At the same time, poisonous substances enter the bloodstream, which then spread to the body: the liver, kidneys, lungs, brain, heart, producing a destructive effect.

Pancreatitis is acute and chronic, separately isolated reactive form. The causes of these diseases are different: wrong menu, alcohol abuse( most often), hereditary predisposition, infectious diseases, complication due to taking certain medications.

Even from this incomplete list it can be concluded that it takes years to earn pancreatitis. How can the symptoms of such a serious condition appear in a young child?

Justified doubt is the first step to understanding. There are some facts that only reinforce suspicions, for example, the prevalence of the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis in children in the countries of the former Soviet Union is too wide.

Despite the fact that acute pancreatitis in children and adults often turns into a chronic form, it is very difficult to find adults with pancreatitis since childhood.

What are the reasons, is the treatment of pancreatitis in children so successful that they are miraculously healed when going to an adult clinic?

Where so many children's pancreatitis?

Acute pancreatitis in children, as, indeed, chronic - is very rare, so the extraordinary prevalence of this diagnosis can not surprise.

And it looks really strange when a young child has two, sometimes even three serious illnesses.

Serious diagnosis must necessarily accompany serious objective signs. Any severe chronic disease in a child is always accompanied by a delay in physical development.

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It can be ascertained with a significant lag of the child from peers in height and weight. It's not about reactive pancreatitis, its symptoms and signs in the child will naturally disappear as soon as the cause disappears - the underlying disease.

The reasons for this picture are many. One of them is overdiagnosis, peculiar to specialists of the post-Soviet space.

Doctors prefer to reinsure, giving out a functional norm for ultrasound for suspicion, other doctors do not want to take responsibility and remove this suspicion.

Either the clinician is uncomfortable explaining to parents that what the functionalist wrote in the conclusion of the survey is nonsense. And he makes a vague diagnosis, prescribing unnecessary treatment.

So at the child at a young age a whole load of diagnoses and a dangerous for the child's psyche accumulation experience of polyclinics and hospitals are accumulated.

Nobody canceled the commercialization of medicine, although this is one of the uncomfortable topics that one does not want to raise.

A well-dressed mother and child are more likely to be sent to various diagnostic procedures, prescribe useless, and sometimes frankly unnecessary medications, and the most innocuous of all the prescriptions is a diet for pancreatitis in children.

Problems often arise after a vigilant loving mother is alarmed by some signs of a child's condition, which she mistakes for symptoms and turns to a doctor.

The specialist certainly has reason to thicken the colors, because it is better to be safe than. .. But often this transcends all the limits of reasonableness, logic and medical facts, why children and their families suffer.

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There is another frequent diagnosis of "pancreatopathy", which sounds frightening, but in fact means only "something incomprehensible with the pancreas."

This diagnosis is made in one of two cases. Either the mother really wants to treat her quite healthy child, or there are real symptoms( prolonged pain near the navel), but it is impossible to explain what they are related to.

What should I do if my child is hurt?

"It's all good," someone will say.- "But what if the child has a permanent stomachache?".It is necessary to observe it, noting the "dynamics of the state", as doctors like to say.

If there are no additional symptoms( high fever, stools, etc.), then the best thing that a loving mother can do is to remain calm.

Anxiety will be transmitted to the baby, and the suspiciousness will surely do its job: if someone is told that he is sick, then the person will necessarily fall ill.

You can use pre-hospital drugs. The most common cause of abdominal pain is spasms of intestinal musculature or colic.

They exist as long as there are children. Candles with Papaverine successfully relieve the digestive system from spasms, and the pain goes away.

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With nausea, vomiting and spasms of smooth muscles, the child can give under the tongue mint tablets containing mint oil. Of course, it is important to show the child to a competent specialist, but if you are not sure of his qualification and consciousness, then try to take a critical approach to conclusions, especially frightening.

Periodic abdominal pain in children is most often functional, that is, they simply do not have a cause, or it can not be determined by modern diagnostic methods.

Most of the discomfort in the abdomen in children is due to the vulnerability of the child's psyche, impressionability, negative climate at home or at school.

Based on the above, the child also rarely needs a special menu, how rarely he can have a real( and not born of a physician's imagination) pancreatitis.

The main principle of making menus in childhood is not to overfeed. Overeating is the main reason why children have symptoms of digestive problems.

A "sensible" menu is not a Pevzner diet or a delicately healthy meal, cooked solely for a couple of the most useful products that were only found in the nearest supermarket.

Reasonable menu for stomach problems - eat less, do not snack between meals, reduce fat, teach the child to thoroughly chew food.

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If this does not help, then make an enema. Even if the child goes to the toilet regularly, the intestine may not completely empty, which causes certain symptoms.

Even more important than the menu is the healthy climate in the family. If the child is intensively treated, it will subject him to the influence of hospitalism, a phenomenon that is the deterioration of health as a result of a constant stay in the atmosphere of a medical institution.