Reactive pancreatitis in children
Generally in children, reactive pancreatitis is a consequence of the error in diet. The child needs to make meals at the same time each day. In the opposite case, sooner or later, this unpleasant and rather dangerous for the life of the baby can occur.
Reactive pancreatitis in children: causes of the disease
The development of this disease in infants is associated with an incorrect mode of complementary feeding. Getting into the kid's diet of grape juice, spices, meat, leads not only to increased gas production. This leads to the fact that the child has a disruption of the pancreas, and then to the inflammatory process. To great regret, reactive pancreatitis in infants is often the cause of death. But timely medical assistance can not prevent this. Therefore, the first signs of reactive pancreatitis in babies need to call an ambulance.
How to prevent pancreatitis in children
Prevent this disease in children can be so:
- excluding from the child's diet irritants
- limit the use of the waters of the food with the gas and chocolate
- following the diet and making sure food calorie
reactive pancreatitis in children requires immediate treatment
To save the life of a baby with acute inflammatory process in the pancreas, it is possible only with timely treatment. Unfortunately, most mothers simply can not normally assess the condition of the baby. Usually, with such a disease in children, treatment does not begin on time precisely because parents perceive the symptoms of pancreatitis as a temporary ailment and the whims of the child.
Should be more attentive to the child and if it shows symptoms of pancreatitis, then no need to feed it further against his will.
First aid to the baby
When delayed with medical help, various changes in the pancreas can develop. This may later trigger the development of diabetes in a child. Extensive necrosis of the tissues of this organ is an indication for emergency surgery by surgeons and cutting out part of the gland.
You should also know that the treatment of this disease in children should be conducted only in a hospital environment under round the clock medical supervision.
Before medical help arrives, it is recommended to make such actions:
- put the baby in this body should be tilted slightly forward to ensure full
- hunger
- on the area of the pancreas in front of the abdominal wall should put cold water bottle
- can receive 1/2 of papaverine hydrochloride tablets
- is not recommended to be used to anesthetize no-shpu and analgin.
- when urge to vomit need to hold the baby's head
- it is necessary to allow the stomach to remove everything that is contained there.
After the doctor arrives, you should try not to forget to say that the baby has digestive problems. Also after the ambulance doctor arrives, you need to tell everything that the child ate and what drugs he used in the last 5 days.
It will be necessary to conduct a survey of the child - ultrasound of the liver and pancreas, as well as pass urine to amylase.
It's worth saying that it's good to have a home test strip on ketone bodies, so that if necessary, you can quickly recognize the disease.
It should be remembered that not only errors in nutrition, but also infectious diseases, as well as strong emotional experiences can lead to another outbreak of pain in the pancreas.
If no vomiting, you can give a child sorbents, for example, smectite laktofiltrum and start desoldering child: compote of dried fruits - dried apricots, dried apples, boiled water, alkaline mineral water without gas. To drink it is necessary fractional, that is small sips, but often giving every 5-10 minutes.
Prohibited products
from the diet is necessary to eliminate: meat, bone, fish broth, honey, mushrooms, jam, whole milk, pastry, chocolate, confectionery, coffee, ice cream, cocoa, beans( except green peas), radishes, garlic.
