The term "reactive" means secondary, ie, it is a reaction to the body of some other disease. The pancreas can produce reactive changes on any disease of the digestive system, as the functions of these bodies are interconnected. But the close relationship from the pancreas to the liver and biliary ways.

What is reactive pancreatitis

Reactive pancreatitis may develop in patients with any disease of the digestive system, with a constant overeating and eating greasy fried food, some congenital enzyme disorders, long-term use of certain medications (eg, glucocorticoids), anomalies of the biliary tract.

On US thus can see the same changes as in acute pancreatitis: an increase in one of the sections of the pancreas (usually the tail), the expansion of the pancreatic duct, diffuse change in pancreatic tissue.

Diseases of the liver and biliary tract

In diseases of the liver and biliary tract is almost always appear reactive changes in the pancreas. This happens because these organs are connected by a common duct, which combined the common bile duct and pancreatic flow.

When stagnation of bile in the biliary ducts and gall bladder in the pancreatic tissue reactive changes appear who sees and describes the physician ultrasound. These changes always have a diffuse (spread) in nature, but are often found on a section of the pancreas. Such reactive inflammation suggests a close connection bodies.

The same is true for liver Liver disease: when the natural filter faltering   (acute and chronic hepatitis), when its function is broken for the production of bile by the liver cells.

Such reactive changes are often not manifest or their symptoms are minor. Can disturb pains in the upper abdomen, nausea, diarrhea appears periodically. But as for liver and biliary tract is also possible the emergence of such symptoms to distinguish the symptoms of liver and biliary tract symptoms of reactive changes in the pancreas sometimes impossible.

Special treatment of reactive changes of the pancreas do not require. This condition takes place after recovering from the underlying disease or after pass its aggravation.

Gastrointestinal disease

Reactive changes in the pancreas can develop and gastrointestinal disease. So often is reactive inflammation develops during exacerbation of duodenal ulcer. The pancreas has a close relationship with the duodenum, since it offers a common wall of the duct through which the intestines and enter the bile pancreatic juice. Such reactive inflammation can lead to increased pain in the abdomen and spreading them up, cause nausea, loose stools and bloating.

Sometimes there is penetration (distribution) of gastric and duodenal ulcer in the head of the pancreas. In this case, reactive inflammation of the pancreas is enhanced.

Less reactive inflammation of the pancreas occurs when bowel disease, e.g., ulcerative colitis Ulcerative colitis   and diseases of the esophagus. To a reactive inflammation of the pancreas could lead reflux Reflux: the failure of the esophagus -gastrit - inflammation of the esophagus, which occurs with the constant flowing of acidic stomach contents into the esophagus. This constant irritation leads to inflammation of the first, and then to the formation of ulcers in the walls of the esophagus - a serious illness that affects the state of the digestive organs, including the condition of the pancreas.

Reactive changes in the pancreas are the restoration of the normal state of which he was summoned.

Do we need more research

As a rule, they are held as an accurate diagnosis on the basis of a US supply is not possible. When reactive changes in the pancreas function of its slightly disturbed. If blood and urine detected a large number of pancreatic enzymes, the assigned co-treatment.

When reactive changes of the pancreas need to look for any disease of another organ of digestion.

Galina Romanenko

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