Pancreatitis is a common digestive system disease. It is mainly divided into two types, acute pancreatitis and chronic pancreatitis. There are many causes of pancreatitis in people, such as drinking alcohol for a long time, as well as gallbladder disease. Pancreatitis has always existed and will affect your health. How should you treat it at this time? Pancreatitis will have uncomfortable symptoms, everyone should know about it.
Symptoms of pancreatitis
1. Abdominal pain: The abdominal pain caused by pancreatitis is severe. Generally, this symptom occurs when acute pancreatitis occurs. inflammation. The abdominal pain is concentrated in the third or fourth upper abdomen, but it may also develop to the waist. In addition, abdominal pain is radiating pain, dull pain, or needle-like. Abdominal pain is usually recurring and cannot be improved by using painkillers.
2. Nausea and vomiting: Nausea and vomiting are also common in acute pancreatitis. Spit out all the food and possibly bile. However, even after vomiting, the pain symptoms do not improve. Patients need further treatment to better suppress the disease.
3. Fever: Fever is a common symptom of pancreatitis. In normal times, if you have persistent fever, you must consider whether there is a possibility of infection. Patients should choose suitable treatment methods according to their own conditions. Patients can also use physical cooling methods in life.
4. Jaundice: It is more common in acute pancreatitis, which can lead to obstructive jaundice in patients. However, obstructive jaundice is mainly mild and can be improved with medication. The formation of jaundice is mostly related to the compression of the cystic duct to secrete a large amount of bile. If the symptoms such as jaundice are not improved after taking treatment measures, on the contrary, there will be aggravation. It can be considered to be a disease such as gallstones, and further diagnosis can be made.
5. Hypotension, shock: If the patient has persistent hypotension and other symptoms, it can be considered as hemorrhagic pancreatitis. Symptoms such as shock are mostly caused by bleeding inside the pancreas.
How to treat pancreatitis
Treatment of chronic pancreatitis
Patients with chronic pancreatitis need to choose surgery , The anatomical factors to be considered when choosing the surgical method, including the location of pancreatic duct obstruction, the diameter of the pancreatic duct, and whether there is a local mass and so on. The main surgical methods that can be taken are longitudinal incision of the pancreatic duct, decompression, pancreaticojejunostomy, pancreaticoduodenectomy, and resection of the body and tail of the pancreas or the tail of the pancreas.
Acute pancreatitis treatment
(1) Non-surgical treatment
a, anti-shock. For severely ill patients, if shock has occurred, a large amount of body fluid leakage will occur, so that 40% of the circulating volume will be lost, and hypovolemic shock will occur, which is also the cause of early death from acute pancreatitis.