Acute Pancreatitis
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Dietary Intervention for Pancreatitis
Dietary supplements are also something to be considered for a patient of pancreatitis. Someone who already has pancreatitis is more likely to develop deficiencies of a few key nutrients. These nutrients include: magnesium, methionine, selenium, and vitamins A, C, and E. Some studies suggest that taking these nutrients can reduce pain from pancreatitis. The 5 mentioned have antioxidant properties and can aide in the overall healing process of the pancreas.
Always avoid eating fatty foods to reduce your chance of having another attack. Even if you haven’t exceeded your 30 gram-per-day allotment, it’s not a good idea to eat a food item of 29 grams of fat at once. Eat small meals frequently rather than larger meals periodically. Larger meals will make your symptoms worse. Pancreatitis stops the flow of enzymes into the intestine for digestion; eating larger meals will make the pancreas over-work to digest the food. If your blood glucose levels are high or have been high, you may need to avoid any concentrated sweets or unnecessary sugars.
The disease affects approximately fifty-thousand to eighty-thousand individuals each year in the United States alone. It is characterized by gradual or sudden severe pain in the center part of the abdomen. This pain may radiate to the back, and worsen when a person lies down. The chief causes of acute pancreatitis in adults are alcoholism and gallstones. Chronic pancreatitis is essentially the same as acute, only recurring and/or constant.
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