Pancreatitis should be no stranger to everyone.
The number of people who cause acute pancreatitis due to strong stomach pain is also quite large every year.
As a dangerous disease, pancreatitis not only causes pain, mild acute pancreatitis can also damage the pancreas and adjacent sites, and severe acute pancreatitis is accompanied by persistent multi-organ failure and severe infection.
Once this happens, the mortality rate of the patient exceeds 30%.
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Why is a pancreatitis so fierce?
Many people do not understand why this pancreas deep in the abdominal cavity has been buried deep in the stomach and duodenum and behind the peritoneum, why is it so menacing.
This is due to the fact that most of the pancreas is inactive during the secretion process and can only be activated after entering the intestine. If the pancreas is activated early, or if the gland fluid leaks out of the pancreas or catheter, it can corrode the various organs in the abdominal cavity.
Severe acute pancreatitis also activates the systemic inflammatory response, and the entire circulatory system and organs far away from the pancreas are damaged, resulting in high fever, shock, hemorrhagic necrosis and even kidney failure.
What are the treatment methods for pancreatitis?
1. Medication
Patients with abdominal pain can be treated with drugs such as octreotide. This drug can not only inhibit the secretion of pancreatic juice and relieve abdominal pain, but also control the inflammatory response of the pancreas and the whole body.
For patients with severe abdominal pain, intramuscular injection of non-opioid analgesics such as piperidine can be injected. The selection of drugs generally follows the principle of weak to strong efficacy.
Patients with dyspepsia and loss of appetite can be treated with pancreatic enzyme preparations and acid-suppressing drugs.
2. Surgical treatment
The purpose of surgical treatment of the disease is to relieve the obstruction of the pancreatic duct, relieve pain, and ensure the outflow channel of pancreatic juice and bile. Surgery can reduce pain and delay the progression of the disease, but it cannot cure the disease.
In general, the surgical treatment of the disease is divided into emergency surgery and elective surgery. Patients who cannot relieve symptoms with conservative treatment or who have complications such as obstruction, infection, perforation, and bleeding should be treated with emergency surgery as soon as possible.
For patients who are ineffective in internal medicine and interventional therapy, cannot exclude malignancy, and compress adjacent organs, elective surgical treatment is required.
In summary, when suffering from pancreatic cancer, patients will not only have milk-colored blood, but also abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms.
When these symptoms are found, patients should promptly go to abdominal ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound endoscopy, pathology and other aspects of examination, check clearly, and then carry out drug or surgical treatment.
After treatment, the therapeutic effect of acute pancreatitis depends on the degree of lesions and the presence or absence of complications, the prognosis is better in milder symptoms, most can be recovered within 5 to 7 days, there are no sequelae, and the prognosis of severe symptoms is poor, and the mortality rate is 10% to 20%.
Small gallstones may also cause acute pancreatitis
According to clinical medical statistics, about 40% of acute pancreatitis is caused by gallstones, organs that are directly communicative between the pancreas and the gallbladder, so gallstones are easy to fall into the biliary tract, which will cause obstruction.
Once the pancreatic duct is obstructed, the pressure inside the tube rises sharply, and the acinar vesicle ruptures, which can trigger acute pancreatitis.
Therefore, once gallstones appear, they also need to go to the hospital in time, whether they need to be discharged.
In addition, acute pancreatitis is also closely related to alcohol consumption, overeating, etc., and hyperlipidemia is also an important risk factor for acute pancreatitis.
In the face of this menacing disease, only by actively adopting a healthy lifestyle and avoiding significant risk factors can the risk of disease be better reduced.