Chronic pancreatitis

Depending on the severity of the disease chronic pancreatitis treated medically or surgically. When using the drug treatment should also pay attention to proper nutrition. Diet completely excludes alcoholic beverages, spicy, salty, sour and fatty foods, coffee, raw vegetables, black bread.

For patients during remission (subsidence of the disease) recommended rehabilitation in sanatoria. The main method of treatment for patients with chronic pancreatitis – therapy with mineral waters. Also beneficial to the recovery process special: carbon dioxide, sodium chloride, and mud.

Contraindications:

All diseases of the digestive system in acute phase.
Cicatricial narrowing of the esophagus and intestines with impaired patency; the structure of the common bile duct and duct of the gallbladder.
Ulcers disease stomach and duodenal ulcers in phase of exacerbation, and peptic ulcer disease complicated with pyloric stenosis, repeated bleeding that took place in the last 8 - 10 months, penetration of the ulcer; suspected malignancy of stomach ulcers, illness of Zollinger - Ellison.
Gastritis: rigid, antrum, and stomach polyps, menetrier disease (hypertrophic gastritis).
Complications after surgery on the stomach (non-healing postoperative scar, fistula, syndrome resulting loops, the so-called vicious circle, dumping and hypoglycemic syndrome, severe, atony of the stomach stump, a peptic ulcer of the small intestine in the acute phase with a tendency to bleeding and penetration to adjacent organs, exacerbation of chronic postoperative gastritis, pancreatitis, cholecystitis, hepatitis, severe form of diarrhea postvagotomic).
Enterocolitis with severe malnutrition (wasting).
Chronic dysentery, ulcerative colitis, chronic colitis with extensive ulcerative or erosive process in a straight or sigmoid colon, revealed during sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy and bleeding hemorrhoids, polyp or polyposis of the intestine.
Cholelithiasis, accompanied by attacks of biliary colic.
Residual effects of viral hepatitis (Botkin's disease) with signs of not ended the activity of the process (pain, dyspeptic, asthenic syndromes) and significant deviations of values in liver function tests, including blood levels of tissue enzymes.
ALT-AST; chronic active (progressive) hepatitis of any etiology.
Cirrhosis of the liver.
All forms of jaundice.
Severe forms of pancreatitis. Violation of patency of the pancreatic duct.

Treatment Results

Pancreatitis in the sanatorium treat effectively. Inflammation of the pancreas is removed with the help of medicines and improving the diet. To extract the pancreas is functioning in the same mode.

The consequences of not treating

There is a whole list of complications of this disease. The most common is cholestasis, reactive hepatitis, cysts, infectious inflammatory effects, cancer.

Chronic pancreatitis is a long – term inflammation of the pancreas, which regulates the violation of its functioning. The main causes of chronic pancreatitis usually include zhelchekamennoy disease, alcohol abuse, exposure to drugs.