Treatment of pancreatic cancer: major diseases

The main cause of most diseases of the pancreas - the abuse of alcohol and an abundance of fatty foods. These factors lead to a change in the structure of the pancreas, its replacement by connective tissue and tissue in significant impairment of its function. A chronic inflammatory disease frequently become tumor.

The main diseases of the pancreas

The pancreas is located on the rear wall of the abdomen and behind the stomach produces pancreatic juice, which helps digest food. In pancreatic tissue has small islets of Langerhans, composed of cells that produce insulin - a hormone that promotes the absorption of glucose, and some other hormones involved in the regulation of carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism.

The most common diseases of the pancreas are an acute or chronic inflammation (acute or chronic pancreatitis). In addition, often it occurs pancreatic cancer, cysts, abscesses, tuberculosis, and so forth. The pancreas is often affected in various infectious diseases, parasitic infestations, collagen diseases, metabolic diseases and more. The defeat of the islets of Langerhans leads to diabetes Diabetes .

Treatment of acute and chronic pancreatitis

Acute pancreatitis - a serious illness as a result of inflammation of the pancreas ducts are squeezed, its juice is collected and begins to digest the tissue of the prostate. It causes severe pain, vomiting and impaired general condition of the patient.

First aid such a patient should be cold attachment to the upper part of the stomach, thereby reducing the swelling of the tissues and pancreatic juice begins to flow into the duodenum 12, moreover, reduces the activity of cold generating cells of the pancreas secretion. The next step is to call an ambulance (emergency physician will introduce anesthetics and relieve muscle spasm of the pancreatic ducts) and hospitalization of the patient in the surgical department of the hospital as the patient may need surgery.

But to start with conservative methods. First of all, a large value is given to the diet. The first few days, patients should do power, bypassing the gastrointestinal tract. To do this, the patient intravenously administered various nutrient solutions. Rich alkaline water in a brackish mineral water without gas appointed inside. After the pain subside, allowed reception not too acidic low-fat fermented milk products for half a glass every half hour. Then gradually introduce other products: low-fat cottage cheese, lean meat and fish. Restrict broth, carbohydrate (all sweet), fat, spicy fried foods. Food - at least 5-6 times a day.

In addition to the diet prescribed to the patient drug treatment: drugs that inhibit the activity of pancreatic enzymes (eg trasilol) relieves spasms of smooth muscles of the pancreatic ducts (for example, no-silos), painkillers and sedatives.

If the patient is admitted to the hospital in a timely manner, then this treatment is usually sufficient. But sometimes, despite treatment, the patient's condition is not getting better, in such cases, a surgical treatment - removes the decay products of pancreatic inflammatory fluid output with special drains.

Chronic pancreatitis occurs more sluggish, pain attacks are not as strong. He proceeds in waves, with exacerbations and remissions. Exacerbations are treated in the same way as acute pancreatitis. During remission the patient is recommended to split meals, diet with the exception of fried, fatty, spicy foods, strong soups and sweets. Recommended spa treatment, mineral water drinking weak and average salinity inside, therapeutic baths.

Treatment of other diseases of the pancreas

Pancreatic cysts are saccular formation containing fluid, located in the tissue of the pancreas or into the surrounding tissues. They can cause pain and compression gland ducts, so be removed. The pancreas can be various benign tumor (adenoma, fibroma, lipoma Lipoma - not always as safe as it seems   and so forth), which are also removed by surgery.

Because malignant tumors often occur pancreatic cancer who are treated with operative methods of postoperative radiation and chemotherapy.

For any disease of the pancreas to be the most serious attitude to mandatory comprehensive examination and rational treatment.

Galina Romanenko

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