Treatment of pancreatic diseases with drugs

Treatment of the pancreas with various medications usually goes in a complex way with other methods.

Drug therapy should eliminate the symptoms of the disease and inflammation, support and compensate for the function of the affected organ, in addition, it should be used to prevent the development of the disease and to protect against possible complications.

Often, pathological processes in the pancreas are accompanied by diseases of other organs( stomach, liver or intestine).

Only an experienced specialist will be able to make a list and schedule of taking medications, given that some problems, in order to achieve a stable improvement, need to be treated for years.

Pancreatic Diseases

Several common pancreatic diseases can be distinguished. Each of them causes changes in the structure of the organ, worsening its work.

Most often, when talking about pancreatic diseases, they mean pancreatitis. It can be acute or chronic. The acute form of the disease, as a rule, manifests itself suddenly.

The first changes may be asymptomatic, but later, under the influence of provoking factors( alcohol consumption, fatty and heavy food), pathological processes dramatically manifest themselves.

Pancreatitis is an inflammation of the pancreatic tissue. It is provoked by accumulation of corrosive enzymes in the cavity of the organ. Accumulating, the secretion presses on the inner walls of the gland.

Under the pressure, it seeps deep into the tissue of the organ, beginning to corrode them. Under the influence of these processes, the pancreas swells, local hemorrhages develop.

Inflammation is accompanied by severe pain, which is poorly removed even by pills.

Often acute pancreatitis flows into a chronic form. This may be the result of ineffective or untimely therapeutic measures or the result of the influence of concomitant diseases of the stomach, liver or intestines.

Sometimes inflammation takes on a chronic character without passing the acute form of the disease.

In chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic structures are strongly deformed. The organ becomes denser and smaller in size.

Normal tissues affected by enzymes are coarsened and degenerated into cicatricial tissue.

Independently the work of the body as a result of such changes can not be completely restored, even by suppressing inflammation.

The disease is characterized by a long and uneven flow. The periods of remission are replaced by the phases of exacerbation.

A good result of treatment is a stable remission, without acute periods. Patients are treated for years.

To restore the pancreas, they take pills and follow a strict diet( similar to a diet for liver diseases).

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Often specialists are faced with pancreatic tumors. They are malignant and benign.

Neoplasms can be located in different parts of the body, causing various symptoms. Particularly isolated pancreatic cancer and hormone-active tumors.

They differ in that, depending on the location, they cause increased isolation of hormones( insulin, gastrin and other biologically active substances) into the bloodstream.

Drugs used to treat pancreatitis

In the treatment of pancreatitis, as with diseases of the liver and other organs of the digestive tract, an integrated approach is used.

In acute periods, the patient needs rest, medication and diet.

An acute form of the disease is best treated in the hospital, since the inflammation provokes so much pain that the patient may have a painful shock.

The first therapeutic measure, which can be resorted to before hospitalization, is anesthesia. For this you need to take antispasmodics( No-shpu).

Strong means to use it is not necessary, as at inspection at the doctor it can prevent diagnostics.

Drugs for the treatment of the pancreas are divided into several groups:

• enzyme preparations that affect the process of digestion and assimilation of food. Tablets contain enzymes that take on part of the load from the pancreas. These are medications like Mezim Fort or Creon;
• antacids, which are used for dyspeptic symptoms( heartburn and belching).At first, it is recommended to use solutions( Almagel), and afterwards, you can use tablets( Maalox) during the recovery process;
• antibiotics used to eliminate or prevent sepsis and peritonitis. What drugs should be used, the doctor decides, based on a specific situation;
• pain medications and pills that eliminate pain. As an analgesic, in general, use antispasmodics( No-Shpa, Papaverin, Odeston, Dicetel, etc.).In special cases, narcotic analgesics may be required;
• during the treatment to maintain the body use fat-soluble vitamins.

In the early days of the patient( as with liver and spleen diseases), a "hungry" diet is prescribed, during which one can only drink, and put a dropper with glucose and other solutions to remove intoxication.

Most of the drugs during this period are injected intravenously, including painkillers.

At the first time the patient should take antacids( Maalox, Gastal or Fosfalugel) to relieve the inflammation, unloading the pancreas and eliminating the irritating factor in the form of enzymes accumulation.

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This indirectly should remove and painful sensations. In chronic forms of pancreatitis, the first few days can also be used with protease inhibitors( Contrikal or Trasilol).

They remove negative enzyme activity and normalize blood microcirculation.

If the pain remains, then specialists use antispasmodics, and in severe cases, narcotic analgesics( like Promedol or Fortral).Most often, you need antibiotics.

They are also used from the very first days of treatment to relieve inflammation, to avoid infection of the organ and other complications.

When the patient has recovered a little, he is given enzyme preparations. You need to drink tablets before or during meals, about 4-5 times a day.

Features of treatment of pancreatic tumors

Tumors of the pancreas are treated differently. First of all, the most effective method of treatment is surgical intervention.

It is recommended irrespective of the nature of the neoplasm, whether it is benign or malignant. In any case, the tumor should be removed.

Benign entities are considered relatively harmless and grow rather slowly( for years, sometimes decades), but at a certain stage they can provoke dysfunction in the body and cause severe pain.

Malignant tumors are more dangerous and prone to metastasis. They are difficult to detect on time, so often the disease makes itself felt only when it has already affected other organs.

Therefore, sometimes the operation involves not only the removal of a part or even the entire pancreas, but also excision of nearby organs( the liver, partially the stomach).

In the case of the malignant nature of the tumor after surgery, the patient must undergo chemotherapy to prevent the appearance of metastasis.

Chemotherapy in combination with a surgical procedure should give the most effective result.

Treatment of the pancreas in this situation will be of a medicamental nature. Medicines and tablets should compensate for the functional deficiency of the gland and restore its functioning.

Some tumors cause symptoms similar to pancreatitis, so specialists again resort to familiar painkillers, enzyme preparations, vitamins and antacids.

Only a doctor will be able to determine what drugs should be taken to restore the pancreas( and possibly the liver and other tumor-struck organs) against the background of the main antitumor treatment.

It is especially worth considering the situation when tumors appear that provoke increased release of hormones. In such cases, correction of the hormonal background is necessary.

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Taking hormonal drugs will be necessary until the tumor is removed, after which the background should be restored.

It is important not to delay the treatment, until under the influence of a large number of hormones there are complications in the work of the liver or stomach.

Modern medicines and tablets with competent timely use allow you to quickly treat a variety of diseases.

And although some issues are more effectively solved with the help of surgery, without the help of tablets all the same can not do.