What is parenchymal pancreatitis?

Chronic parenchymal pancreatitis is a chronic disease in which the pancreas is inflamed at a leisurely pace.

The disease leads to a decrease in the tissues of the digestive organ, and then to the loss of its functionality.

Why and how does the ailment occur?

Very often parenchymal pancreatitis affects people who are addicted to alcohol.

But, in addition, the cause of the disease may be:

• belated and unscrupulous treatment of acute pancreatitis;
• Infection of the body with an infection( for example, a rickettsia bacterium that causes typhus, group A streptococcus, which provokes scarlet fever);
• the transition of inflammation from the gallbladder to the gland responsible for digestion, which happens with cholecystitis;
• abnormal parathyroid activity, which is due to the appearance of Burnett's syndrome;
• systemic chronic disease of the arteries of the muscular-elastic type.

Parenchymal pancreatitis, like other diseases in chronic form, occurs with a change in the period of remission with a period of exacerbation.

When the disease recedes, moving to the stage of temporary improvement of health, pathological processes are suspended.

But after a few weeks or months the parenchymal type pancreatitis re-emerges, the following symptoms appear:

• painful sensations that concentrate in the left side of the body under the ribs and are given in the back. And the pain with parenchymal pancreatitis can be as aching, not particularly pronounced, and significant, appearing after eating excessive amounts of food, as well as eating fatty or seasoned with spicy dishes;
• nauseating, and consequently, vomiting and diarrhea, alternating with constipation. All these symptoms with parenchymal pancreatitis appear due to insufficient production of enzymes by the digestive gland;
• feces with a greasy shine containing particles of not completely digested food. This is a consequence of disruption of the digestive system.

Often a patient with parenchymal pancreatitis notices that he has strongly and dramatically lost weight.

This is due to the fact that useful substances from the eaten products due to a malfunction in the pancreas are not absorbed by the body.

Also, with parenchymal pancreatitis lose weight, as severe pain in the abdomen provokes a loss of appetite.

Inflammation of the pancreas almost always leads to a decrease in the level of insulin, resulting in the development of diabetes mellitus.

About that his patient is sick with parenchymal pancreatitis, an experienced doctor will prompt some symptoms.

When the patient says that it is not the first time that a pain is attacked, it turns out that the disease has a chronic form.

But to confirm the diagnosis, ultrasound is always done and tests are taken.

Parenchymal pancreatitis is indicated by an increase in the amount of amylase, trypsin and lipase in urine.

Blood will increase the level of glucose. Also, parenchymal pancreatitis will be indicated by a tightening and a barely noticeable decrease in the pancreas.

Occasionally, parenchymal pancreatitis is detected by contrast radiographic examination of the blood vessels of the digestive gland.

If the patient has such a disease, the picture shows that the arteries in some parts of the body are enlarged.

What is the treatment for the disease?

Treatment of parenchymal pancreatitis is based on getting rid of pain, vomiting and upset of the stool.

But having eliminated these symptoms of parenchymal pancreatitis, it will not be possible to completely and completely repair the affected organ.

With the help of treatment, one can only restrain the manifestations of parenchymal pancreatitis and correct the functioning of the pancreas.

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In any case, medical treatment is reasonable to hold, lying in the hospital or at least constantly watching the doctor.

First of all, suffering from parenchymal pancreatitis is prescribed treatment with drugs that can fill the lack of pancreatic enzymes.

Such medications are "Pancreatin", "Festal" and "Creon".

In addition to them, it is necessary to take "Methyluracil" or another drug that regenerates the damaged area of ​​the digestive organ.

Another patient with parenchymal pancreatitis needs treatment with a diet.

It is quite strict, because in the first days of acute illness it is necessary to significantly cut down portions of food and even completely abandon it.

In order for the organism to continue to receive the necessary substances, a dropper is inserted through which physiological saline and glucose are injected into the blood.

You can not drink ordinary water at this time. It needs to be replaced with a small amount of a 1% solution of baking soda.

When the period of exacerbation of parenchymal pancreatitis is far behind, it is allowed to eat cereals with boiled croup, lightly salted and at least sweetened, and low-fat cooked meat, vegetables and fruits.

The diet can include meals containing a protein of milk origin. But they can be eaten only in the form of mashed potatoes, in order to facilitate the work of an unhealthy digestive system.

When parenchymal pancreatitis food should be eaten little by little, but 7-8 times a day. Diet treatment requires the use of foods that contain few fats and carbohydrates.

From parenchymal pancreatitis can be treated folk remedies, prepared according to the following recipes:

1. kink 300 g of garlic, the same amount of parsley and 4 lemon washed together with zest in a meat grinder. Then you need to mix the ingredients and put them in a glass container that needs to be covered with a dense lid and put in a cool place. After 2 weeks the product will be ready for use. It should be eaten on a teaspoon for a quarter of an hour before breakfast, lunch and dinner, washed down with herbal infusion from leaves of cranberries, strawberries, blueberries, dried pods of beans and stigmas of corn;
2. combine in one container 6 tablespoons of dry flowers immortelle with 3 tablespoons motherwort and the same amount of St. John's Wort. Then one spoon of the mixed herbs should be poured a glass of boiling water and insist for about an hour. Infusion should be drunk a glass 30 minutes before eating. Such treatment should last several months.

So, to cope with the symptoms of parenchymal pancreatitis, one must adhere to a diet, take drugs that replace enzymes and restore the gland, and use some of the means from the people.