Pancreatitis is a formidable, serious disease, therefore it requires intensive therapy. Chronic pancreatitis is dangerous for its complications, such as diabetes mellitus, metabolic disorders, gland cancer and other dangerous diseases. It is good, if treatment of a pancreatitis is begun in due time. Perhaps there is a chance to fully revive and resume the function of the pancreas.
If you are on time for treatment, you will be able to avoid:
- pain;
- diarrhea;
- nausea and vomiting;
- various dangerous complications.
Chronic pancreatitis is characterized by pancreatic insufficiency, that is, iron does not produce the right amount of enzymes necessary for normal digestion. Undoubtedly, timely begun therapy with a disease that has arisen, can significantly reduce the entire duration of the disease and weaken the symptoms of this disease.
What are the symptoms of pancreatitis? It all starts with pain in the epigastric region. This is the middle or upper abdomen. Sometimes pain can give in the back. Nausea and vomiting will occur.
As a rule, this disease causes unhealthy food of the sick person. This use of too much alcohol, the diet is dominated by fatty and spicy food. Some people believe that a wrong and unhealthy lifestyle will not lead to anything serious, but this opinion is mistaken. And if you do not begin intensive therapy of the detected disease, the result can be very, very deplorable, up to a lethal outcome.
It is important to realize the fact that pancreatitis itself will not go away anywhere and will not be cured on its own. Without the help of medical personnel in this case can not do, otherwise they can add to other serious complications. It can be such diseases as diabetes, fistulas, cysts, a violation of carbohydrate metabolism, metabolic disorders and much more. Of course, chronic pancreatitis does not require urgent surgical therapy, but without treatment with such a disease with a normal process of digestion it will be possible to part, and later with a full life.
Do not neglect therapy for chronic pancreatitis. This is the pledge of your present normal life and full-fledged - in the future. With regard to treatment, a specific individual program is prepared for each specific case. The main method of treatment is antiferment therapy. The purpose of this treatment is to stop the destructive processes in the pancreas.
Enzyme replacement therapy for chronic pancreatitis
For the treatment of chronic pancreatitis in modern conditions of medical development, enzyme preparations are used that are manufactured in the form of tablets and capsules containing such important substances for the pancreas as lipase and amylase. Substitution therapy for chronic pancreatitis is quite common and is considered one of the most effective methods of treating the disease. Due to the use of such drugs, absorption and digestion of fats, proteins and carbohydrates are stimulated. Such drugs help control the release of their own enzymes by the organs of the gastrointestinal tract. Also, the action of lipase is activated.
The main purposes of the use of such drugs are:
- substitution therapy of the disease( participation in the digestive process, along with natural, additional, missing in the body substances consumed in the form of enzyme preparations);
- maintaining the pancreas at rest, that is, alleviating the symptoms of exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis.