Is it okay to eat bananas with pancreatitis?

Many patients are wondering whether it is possible to eat bananas in pancreatitis and in what form.

Bananas in pancreatitis do not belong to prohibited foods, however there are some limitations for their use, which it is important to know when planning a curative menu.

Dietary bananas

Banana in the Russian language is called fruit, but biologically it is a multi-seeded thick-skinned berry.

One of the signs of the berry is the seeds that are not found in the usual varieties of bananas, but this is the result of selective efforts, because they are not needed for vegetative propagation with the modern cultivation of bananas.

In many tropical African and island countries, bananas are a staple food: an average of one hundred kilograms of fruit per year per person.

For comparison: in Russia the average annual consumption of bananas is less than ten kilograms.

However, bananas have become a habitual food and in countries with a temperate climate, where 100 years ago they were exotic. There are several explanations for this.

Everyone knows that for the successful transportation of vegetables, fruits and berries, they are ripped off in an immature form, after which they ripen independently or with chemical help.

At the same time, the taste of the product and the amount of valuable substances contained in it are in some degree inferior to maturation in a natural way.

Banana is a happy exception. Firstly, chemical reagents are not needed for its ripening. Secondly, the taste and nutritional value of a banana, ripe in a box, is almost inferior to bananas ripened in natural conditions.

Bananas are quite nutritious and provide the calories needed for the growing or adult organism, so they are used as complementary foods for small children or for adults.

In this case, a person receives not only "empty" kilocalories, as in the case of products from refined flour and sugar, but also vitamins( mainly C, group B, nicotinic acid), trace elements( phosphorus, calcium, potassium, magnesium and others),Fiber and other useful substances.

Banana does not contain fruit acids that prevent the consumption of fruits, berries and vegetables for many people with gastrointestinal problems.

But from them you can prepare a large number of interesting dishes, and you can eat raw.

Features of nutrition in pancreatitis

Modern medicine goes away from strict prohibitions on food. The actual approach to date is that you can eat anything that does not cause painful symptoms and deterioration.

However, the problems associated with inflammation of the pancreas, first, too serious to engage in experiments on their own organism, and secondly, cause severe, painful attacks.

In addition, exacerbation of the inflammatory processes of the pancreas can almost always be associated with diet disorders - the use of foods that create an increased burden on the patient's pancreatic organ.

This is why patients are generally interested in following dietary rules for pancreatitis.

For their basis, the table( diet) No. 5P is traditionally accepted.

The diet for pancreatitis 5P is the same diet number 5 for problems with the liver, only using products that do not mechanically irritate the digestive system.

In the first days after an attack of acute pancreatitis or exacerbation of chronic inflammation of the pancreas there is generally no, especially fiber-rich bananas.

As a rule, during this period, patients have no appetite. The diet itself begins about the fourth day after the attack.

Even more important than the list of products are the basic principles of eating:

1. fractional meals 4 to 6 times a day, little by little and without snacks between meals;
2. restricting fatty foods and reducing caloric intake due to the main source of kilocalories and energy - carbohydrates. The main emphasis is on protein foods;
3. dishes should be consumed warm, but by no means cold. Ice cream for inflammation of the pancreas does not eat even because of fat, but because of the low temperature;
4. principle of mechanical shchazheniya is that the fiber-rich foods need to be boiled or wiped. For example, bananas with pancreatitis can be eaten in a frayed form to reduce the amount of fiber.

Diet in diseases associated with inflammation of the liver or pancreas, long, it must be observed for up to a year.

Restoring the body allows you to expand the diet a little, but it's hardly worth it to go all the way and go far away from the principles of proper nutrition. This is the only way to keep the organ in working condition for a long time.

Does it pancreatitis?

So, bananas in pancreatitis do not belong to forbidden fruit, but there is a more complicated issue related to inflammation of the pancreas - an accurate diagnosis.

In post-Soviet gastroenterology, a frighteningly large number of diagnoses of pancreatitis - among adults, young children, pregnant women.

Explanation can be sought in the peculiarities of nutrition and lifestyle of Russians, Ukrainians and other peoples of the post-Soviet space, and it is possible and necessary - in the shortcomings of domestic gastroenterology.

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Doctors in advanced medicine countries have avoided the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis in recent years, as for every attack of the inflammation in the gland, there are usually certain factors and disorders that need to be addressed.

Removing an attack of pancreatitis does not eliminate the cause of its occurrence, so exacerbations occur again and again.

Especially destructive misdiagnosis of pancreatitis is during pregnancy, as it often serves as an indication for abortion, because it is a life-threatening condition.

Women agree, exhausted by constant pain and bad health, not knowing that the cause of the death of their unborn child was not pancreatitis, but an incorrect diagnosis.

If you study each case of pancreatitis in pregnant women, leading to premature birth, you can find various pathologies of the digestive system, which caused pain in the pancreas.

Low competence and overdiagnosis are two ugly phenomena that entail a huge number of incorrect diagnoses in domestic gastroenterology.