"The Truth About Treating Pancreatitis That Doctors Won't Tell You!"
Do You Want to Know How to Treat Your Pancreatitis by Simple Diet?
This Book Will Teach You:
- Amazing cooking hints and recipes that keep your pancreatitis under control
- Learn all about how diet and nutrition affect pancreatitis
- Find out what you are eating and doing that is causing you pain
- The Causes and Symptoms of the disease
- Natural Remedies
What is Pancreatitis?
Pancreatitis, simply put, is the inflammation of the pancreas. Pancreatitis may be either acute (sudden and severe) or chronic. Acute Pancreatitis occurs suddenly and lasts for days while chronic pancreatitis reoccurs for many years. Both types of pancreatitis can cause bleeding and tissue death in or around the pancreas. This vital organ produces enzymes that aid in the digestion of food, as well as insulin, which controls your blood sugar. When the pancreas (a long gland located behind the stomach) is inflamed, the body is unable to absorb all the nutrients it needs.
Mild attacks of acute pancreatitis can get better on their own, or by changing your diet. In the case of recurring pancreatitis, however, long-term damage to the pancreas is common, sometimes leading to malnutrition and diabetes.
If not kept under control, chronic pancreatitis often leads to further complications including diabetes and a condition known as necrotizing pancreatitis in which the pancreas tissue dies. With this condition, abscesses and cyst-like pockets develop and inflammation spreads quickly. If not treated toxins can leak through the abdomen cause damage to blood vessels and internal bleeding.
What Causes Pancreatitis?
While there are many causes of pancreatitis, the most common are gallstones (acute pancreatitis) and excessive alcohol consumption (chronic pancreatitis). Other causes include:- Abdominal injuries
- Abdominal surgery
- Certain medications
- Cystic fibrosis
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), when used to treat gallstones
- Family history of pancreatitis
- High calcium levels in the blood (hypercalcemia)
- High levels of parathyroid hormone in the blood (hyperparathyroidism)
- High triglyceride levels in the blood (hypertriglyceridemia)
- Infection
- Pancreatic cancer
- Smoking
- Ulcer
Signs and Symptoms
- Mild to severe pain in the upper abdomen
- Abdominal pain that radiates to the back or chest
- Fever
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Increased heart rate
- Increased breathing
- Steatorrhea; Oily, foul-smelly stools (chronic pancreatitis)
- Indigestion
- Weight loss
Why Diet is Important
Severe attacks can be lethal if left untreated. Because the pancreas plays such a major role in the digestion of food, it is directly linked to diet. Numerous studies have shown that oxidants in everyday foods cause stress and inflammation to the pancreas and that low antioxidants in the blood often leads to chronic pancreatitis due to the destructive effects of free radicals. On the other hand, by increasing the anti-oxidants in your diet controls pancreatitis and prevents complications such as diabetes.Some of these anti-oxidants include:
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin E
- Carotenoids
- Selenium
How This Book Will Help YOU
It combines all of the above and extensively answers questions like:- What the pancreas does and what pancreatitis is (including the different forms it takes).
- Numerous tips and ideas on diet modification and nutritional treatments that help ease the pain and prevent future attacks
- An ENTIRE RECIPE book full of delicious ideas that will bring pain relief and prevent attacks
- NATURAL THERAPIES that are now being used to help treat both pain and the risk of on-going pancreas attacks
- How to incorporate a pancreatitis diet rich in anti-oxidants
- The different causes and symptoms of the disease
- What stages it can take over time
- Different ways of treating pancreatitis - from traditional pain medications and pancreatic enzymes through surgical options
- Ways you can prevent pancreatitis
- And a lot more
