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Symptoms of disease - pain during pancreatitis

Pancreatitis is a condition in which there is inflammation of the pancreas, resulting in disrupted its functioning. Pancreatitis - the disease is extremely unpleasant, first of all by their rapid development, suddenly appearing sharp pain in the stomach, often return in the back and left hypochondrium.

The pancreas lies behind and slightly below the stomach. Its main function is to develop pancreatic juice, necessary for the digestion of food.

In the current pancreatitis can be acute or chronic. In acute pancreatitis creates strong, even hateful, pain in the abdomen, and the patient has to be hospitalized; in the chronic form of the disease may progress over the years.

Which diseases there is pain during pancreatitis

Characteristics of pain during pancreatitis:

Symptoms of acute pancreatitis is a strong pain in the abdomen. Pain for pancreatitis is so greasy that patients lose consciousness from the pain and the next attack could result in death of the patient only because of pain shock. Predisposing factors are alcohol, overeating, obesity. Also impetus for the development of pancreatitis may become pregnant. And sometimes pancreatitis can develop after acute poisoning.

In acute pancreatitis localization of pain possible in different places of the stomach: if inflamed head of the pancreas, the pain in the right podreberie, if the body of a gland that is in the stomach (in epigastralna area), if the tail, then - in the left hypochondrium. But sometimes the pain for pancreatitis are shingles nature (when the inflammation of the pancreas), is distributed in the lower sections of the chest back. Sometimes the pain is given in the back and rarely for the breastbone and the left shoulder blade, in the region of the heart.

Chronic pancreatitis is often a consequence of the defeat of the liver and bile passages. Chronic pancreatitis develops slowly, affects not such large areas as acute.

The symptoms of chronic pancreatitis are: poor appetite (and, consequently, weight loss), vomiting, nausea, bloating, belching, excessive salivation, and various disorders of the digestive tract, pain aching and obtuse nature in the upper part of the abdomen and back (the localization of the pain is similar to the acute form of the disease). From oily and spicy food or alcohol in a patient with chronic pancreatitis possible aggravation of the flow of pancreatitis in the form of burning, often even boring pain.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a pain during pancreatitis

• Surgeon
• Gastroenterologist

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Do you feel hurts during pancreatitis? You should be very careful approach to your health in general. People pay not enough attention to the symptoms of the disease and don't realize that these diseases can be critically dangerous. There are many diseases that in the beginning didn't manifest in our body, but in the end it turns out, unfortunately, it have already been treated too late. Every disease has its own specific features typical symptoms - called symptoms of the disease. Definition of symptoms is the first step in the diagnosis of diseases in general. You just need a few times a year to be screened by a doctor, not only to prevent a terrible disease, but also to maintain a healthy spirit in a body and the organism in general.

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Map of the symptoms and the types of pain is intended solely for educational purposes. We strongly recommend do NOT self-medicate; on all matters relating to the definition of the disease and ways of its treatment, contact your doctor. Md-tips is not responsible for the consequences of use information posted on the site.