Symptoms and treatment of alcoholic pancreatitis

Alcoholic pancreatitis is a special kind of inflammation of the pancreas, provoked by the toxic effect of ethyl alcohol.

If you want to know what symptoms this disease has, how it affects the life of a person suffering from it, and how to treat alcoholic pancreatitis, then read this article.

More about alcoholic pancreatitis

Alcohol is a poison that has the strongest toxic effect on internal organs. This truth is known to all people, but some of them do not consider it necessary to refrain from regular use of alcohol-containing beverages.

Ethyl alcohol and various surrogates, which are part of alcohol, disrupt the enzymatic processes in the body, kill tissue cells and inhibit the work of all systems.

As a rule, acute pancreatitis develops after a critical intoxication of the body with ethyl alcohol, but it can appear in people who rarely drink alcohol.

Most often, this alcoholic disease affects men, whose age ranges from thirty to fifty years.

Life expectancy with alcoholic pancreatitis is small, so you need to treat the disease without delay.

Reasons that can contribute to the development of alcoholic form of pancreatitis:

1. pathology of the gallbladder and bile ducts;
2. transferred or sluggish pancreatic infections;
3. an unbalanced diet that includes a critically low amount of protein food;
4. long-term use of potent drugs.

With alcoholic pancreatitis, the pancreas suffers: the organ responsible for the production of enzymes involved in digestion.

Iron, afflicted with alcohol-type pancreatitis, increases in size, swells and begins to harass a person with strong and regular pain.

If alcoholic pancreatitis does not start on time, then necrotic pancreatic parenchyma develops under the autoimmune effect of the enzymes produced by it.

Under the influence of fermentation in the tissues of the parenchyma of the body, protein-calcium plugs are formed and the fibrous tissue grows on the site of necrotic areas.

Fibroids build on the nerve endings located in the abdominal cavity and produce the appearance of severe pain.

Alcoholic pancreatitis has the following symptoms:

• fever;
• painful shingles localized in the pancreas region, irradiating in the hypochondrium and in the lower back;
• dyspeptic disorders and flatulence;
• frequent and unstable stools, which have a fat gloss and a sharp odor;
• nausea, vomiting, fetid eructation.

Treatment of alcohol-type pancreatitis

People who are addicted to alcoholism and those who consume alcohol rarely and in small doses, but are predisposed to pancreatic diseases, should follow the following recommendations:

1. to eat a healthy and healthy food rich in protein;
2. to exclude the use of beverages containing ethyl alcohol;
3. to quit smoking;
4. get rid of various problems with digestion, which can trigger the development of pancreatic inflammation.

As mentioned above, the provocators of the appearance of alcoholic pancreatitis are the critical intoxication of the body, the use of surrogate ethyl alcohol, and large doses of alcohol taken inside after eating fatty and fried foods.

Drinking with a tendency to alcoholic pancreatitis is dangerous for life!

As a rule, both acute and chronic alcoholic pancreatitis is treated in a hospital.

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When inflammation of the pancreas caused by alcohol intoxication, you need to take specialized medications and follow a strict diet after a couple of days of medical hunger.

To neutralize unpleasant symptoms of pancreatitis, the following systemic therapy is used.

To relieve pain localized in the middle of the abdomen and radiating to the back or left and right hypochondrium, prescribe analgesics( " No-shpa", "Novocaine", "Papaverin", etc.).

To inhibit the secretion of the gland used drugs-inhibitors, for example, "Omeprazole" or "Contrikal."

To reduce the load on the body and normalize digestion, prescribe "Creon", "Festal", "Mezim", etc.

In addition, many doctors recommend their patients to take light antibiotics( for example, "Ampicillin") that can prevent developmentVarious infections.

You can neutralize the symptoms that develop after inflammation of the pancreas provoked by pancreatitis, by observing a special diet approved by gastroenterologists.

To receive recommendations on treatment that is appropriate in your particular situation, you can only after checking in the clinic - remember this.

Self-medication or "luck" hope can significantly reduce life expectancy and lead to the development of numerous concomitant pathologies.

Diet for alcoholic pancreatitis

Special therapeutic diet, developed for patients with alcoholic inflammation of the pancreas, together with medical treatment can remove symptoms and improve quality of life.

In the first days after diagnosis, the patient is recommended to adhere to therapeutic starvation. As a rule, it can last two or four days. During this time you can not eat.

You can drink only non-carbonated mineral water( within one and a half liters per day), such as Borjomi, Essentuki No. 14, etc.

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After acute symptoms of alcoholic pancreatitis disappear, a special diet called"Medical table" and bearing the mark "1B".

It means taking initially liquid or pre-scraped food, such as:

• porridges cooked on water from rice, manga and buckwheat;
• vegetable broth;
• cottage cheese or meat souffle made from low-fat steamed products;
• puree, created from cabbage, potatoes, carrots and zucchini;
• decoctions of herbs and plants, diluted compotes, jelly.

"Therapeutic table number 1B" implies the rejection of the following product groups:

• fatty meat, fish and poultry;
• baking( any, including bread);
• sweets and nuts;
• caviar and mushrooms;
• fresh vegetables and fruits( especially those that have a fibrous structure);Smoked, fried, tinned food
• ;
• alcohol, coffee, black tea, carbonated drinks, freshly squeezed and packaged juices;
• fermented milk products.

The diet, which is prescribed after the detection of such a disease as alcoholic pancreatitis, implies the selection of foods that have a lower calorie content( up to 1700 Kcal per day).

After reading this article, you could learn about how to properly treat alcoholic pancreatitis.

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Remember - if you find the first symptoms of the disease should visit a gastroenterologist and get from him specific recommendations for restoring health.

After you undergo such treatment, you can forget about problems with the pancreas and start to enjoy life again.