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Symptoms of disease - pain in the pancreas

Pancreas - having lobed structure of the body, most of the cells which produce containing alkali and digestive enzymes pancreatic juice, which is a special duct enters the small intestine, a gap which provides the digestion of proteins, fats and carbohydrates.

A smaller part of the cell synthesizes hubbub governing the exchange of carbohydrates in the body (insulin and glucagon), as well as the work of other organs and systems (somatostatin). Insulin facilitated the flow of glucose into the cell, thereby reducing its level in the blood, while glucagon has the opposite in relation to the insulin effect. Somatostatin suppresses the production of pituitary growth hormone, as well as the secretory and motor activity of the digestive tract, liver and pancreas. The cells, which produce pancreatic juice, are called acinar or secretors, then as a hormone-forming cells are called endocrine or excretory.

The most often in the pancreas develops the inflammatory process, which can be both acute and chronic, respectively, acute and chronic pancreatitis.

Which diseases there is pain in the pancreas

The reasons that cause pain in the pancreas


Metabolic disorders (increased content in the blood fat, or hyperlipidemia, obesity, as one of the manifestations of infringements of a fatty exchange / excessive activity of the parathyroid glands (the so-called hyperparathyroid kriz)).

The abuse of alcohol, smoking.

Obesity (fat, fried the meat food), especially during evening and night time.

Concomitant diseases of the digestive system, in the first place, gall bladder and biliary tract, infections (viral, bacterial parasitic).

Prolonged use of drugs, first of all hormones (corticosteroids, estrogen) and certain antibiotics (tetracycline).

Autoimmune diseases.

Jelchnokamennaya disease with an occlusion of the common bile duct.

Age (involutive) change of the body.


The symptoms of pain in the pancreas
The pain is most often localized in the upper part of the abdomen, around the belly button. Its intensity depends on the degree of severity of the inflammatory process, and therefore in acute pancreatitis pain is the greatest intensity. A typical feature of pain for pancreatitis is its shingles character, when she felt not only in the abdomen, and back. As a rule, the pain is sharp enough, but practically it is never short-term or intermittent. The pain gets worse after eating, the admission of alcohol, in a position lying on a back. Some relief can be achieved if the refusal of food intake, laid vessel with ice on his stomach on the parumbilical region more to the left, or the acceptance of the patient's knee-elbow position.

Along with the pain in a patient with pancreatitis can be a sense of gravity in the stomach, his swelling, nausea. Don't bring relief vomiting may occur as in acute pancreatitis, and the exacerbation of chronic. Another manifestation of pancreatitis can be diarrhoea (diarrhea), the appearance of which provokes (increases) the intake of food.

The inflammatory process in the pancreas may be complicated by its destruction (necrosis), the formation of the completed pancreatic juice, and the remnants of dead cells cavity (pseudocyst), jaundice (violation of the outflow of bile from the liver caused by compression of common bile duct increased due to inflammation of the gland), accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity (ascites).

Which doctor should I contact if there is a pain in the pancreas

• Gastroenterologist
• Surgeon

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