Diet for pancreatic cancer and diseases

Using food for therapeutic purposes has long been known. Hippocrates pointed out that "our food substances should be therapeutic agents, and therapeutic agents - nutrients." Especially important (and even vital) diet in various diseases of the pancreas.

Structure, function and basic pancreatic disease

Pancreas - is unpaired body which is in the abdominal cavity behind the stomach. The cells of the pancreas secrete digestive secret - pancreatic juice, which helps digest food. This is called the exocrine pancreatic function. In pancreatic tissue there is also quite small inclusions of other cells called the islets of Langerhans. These cells are endocrine glands and produce insulin - a hormone which is essential for the absorption of body tissue glucose - the main energy of the material.

In the pancreas often arise inflammation (acute and chronic pancreatitis) are also found pancreatic cancer, cysts, abscesses, tuberculosis, and so forth. The pancreas is often affected due to any infection and intoxication. Various processes exciting Langerhans islets lead to diabetes Diabetes .

The diet in acute diseases of the pancreas

Acute pancreatic diseases are generally accompanied by swelling of the breast tissue, resulting in its compressed ducts, digestive juice is not released in the duodenum, and collects in the ducts of the prostate tissue digests. This is a very dangerous condition, which is accompanied by severe pain, vomiting, and can result in death of the patient.

Such patients may require surgical care, so they are hospitalized in a surgical department. But before you operate, the patient is assigned to conservative treatment, in which a major role diet plays.

The first few days (usually no more than a week) the patient does not eat anything, drink only slightly alkaline mineral water without gas. Eating it is carried out by injection into a vein of special solutions in order not to disturb the water-salt metabolism. The combination of this power by applying to the cold in the region of the pancreas reduces the production of digestive juices, and inflammation (and with it the pain) is gradually taking place.

Once the pain subsides, the patient is prescribed fractional (half a cup every half hour) reception curdled - up to a liter per day. In normal tolerability and absence of pain in a day is added to about 200 grams of cottage cheese, a few days - other products boiled crushed (mashed) form, then gradually increasing the patient's diet. Excluded are fatty, fried, spicy, sour dishes, meats, marinades, carbohydrate (and sweet pastries). Recent facilitate release of large amounts of gas in the intestine, increasing the pressure therein and compressed pancreas.

The diet in chronic diseases of the pancreas

In chronic pancreatic diseases in acute diet is the same as in acute pancreatitis. But the exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis Chronic pancreatitis   usually milder, so the diet is expanding rapidly.

Power is only grinding (abrasion) food, the number of meals should be at least 5 - 6 small meals a day. While improving the state of the dishes are no longer cleaned, but the cooking method is the same: steamed or boiled.

Out of all the dishes and aggravation are steamed and boiled, allowed still stewing and baking. Do not eat fresh bread (it should be slightly stale or dried), concentrated meat and fish broth, as well as all sharp, fatty and fried foods, all canned foods (irritation of the gastrointestinal tract may affect the condition of the pancreas). Should be excluded completely alcohol, coffee, cocoa, sugar, carbonated water. You should not eat bananas, grapes, figs, dates - they contain large amounts of carbohydrate can cause bloating and (flatulence).

Recommended dairy products (especially sour milk and cottage cheese), cereals, a variety of vegetable dishes. The first should be boiled vegetable and cereal soups (first mashed and then in the usual way). On the second - lean boiled beef Beef - Meat Guide , Chicken and fish. Dessert - sour and compotes. Gradually introduced into the diet of fresh fruits and berries. Mineral water - only without the gas and weak mineralization.

All these restrictions are insignificant and do not affect human health. In addition, dietary recommendations for people with diseases of the pancreas are almost identical to the basic principles of a balanced diet of healthy people.

Galina Romanenko

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