Protecting the pancreas is protecting your lifeline! These 7 types of people are most likely to be affected by pancreatitis

Can't control your mouth? Your lack of restraint is planting a "time bomb" for your pancreas. Be careful that your life hangs on your "pancreas"!

Today, the topic #2000 ml of milky white blood extracted from a 13-year-old girl# became a hot search, attracting the attention of nearly 280 million people.

A 13-year-old girl in Zhumadian suffered from severe pancreatitis again and went into shock. She was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, only four months after her last hospitalization.

When the doctor was exchanging plasma for her, he found that the blood drawn was milky white, totaling 2000 ml. He considered it to be severe pancreatitis and hyperlipidemia, and needed plasma exchange and hemodialysis treatment.

The doctor asked the child's parents and learned that the little girl usually liked to overeat and especially loved snacks, such as ice cream, spicy strips, potato noodles and other cold and stimulating foods.

Doctors remind everyone to develop healthy eating habits.

After reading this news, I believe many people feel scared like me.

Some people lamented that at such a young age, they actually suffered from pancreatitis!

Some people are curious, why is the blood drawn milky white? (The truth is revealed at the end of the article~)

Others say that we should learn from this and change our bad eating habits.

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Today, let’s talk about the pancreas, this inconspicuous organ!

The pancreas is a solid organ that is "hidden" deep in the abdominal cavity, located on the left side of the upper abdomen and close to the spine.

From the appearance, the pancreas looks like a fat tadpole, with a total length of about 17-20cm.

It is not large in size and weighs about 65-75 grams, but it is the second largest gland in the human body after the liver and one of the most important digestive organs in the human body.

The main function of the pancreas is to participate in the human body's digestion and metabolism, taking into account both endocrine and exocrine secretions. Its ability should not be underestimated!

The pancreas consists of two parts: the exocrine gland and the endocrine gland.

The exocrine glands can secrete pancreatic juice, which contains sodium bicarbonate, trypsinogen, lipase, amylase, etc. These ingredients can neutralize stomach acid, digest sugar, protein and fat, etc., and help digest food.

Endocrine glands can secrete glucagon, insulin, somatostatin, pancreatic polypeptide, etc.

Glucagon can increase blood sugar, and insulin can lower blood sugar, and both can regulate blood sugar.

Somatostatin can regulate the secretion of glucagon and insulin.

Pancreatic polypeptide can inhibit gastrointestinal function, secretion of pancreatic juice and contraction of the gallbladder.

The physiological functions and pathological changes of the pancreas are closely related to life.

If the pancreas becomes sick, it may very well take your life, such as pancreatic cancer, known as the "king of cancer", and dangerous acute pancreatitis. The most troublesome thing is that pancreatic problems are very hidden, generally difficult to detect, and easily ignored!

Protecting the pancreas is protecting the lifeline

Pancreatitis is one of the most common acute abdominal diseases in general surgery. Pancreatitis is an inflammatory reaction caused by the activation of pancreatic enzymes in the pancreas due to various causes, which leads to self-digestion, edema, bleeding and even necrosis of pancreatic tissue. Common symptoms include abdominal pain, fever, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, etc.

Pancreatitis is divided into two types: acute and chronic. Acute pancreatitis is more common clinically. Acute pancreatitis is further divided into mild and severe cases. Common symptoms include abdominal pain, fever, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension and other discomforts.

Acute pancreatitis is also one of the most dangerous pancreatic diseases. About 400,000 people in my country suffer from acute pancreatitis every year.

The mortality rates of different causes are similar. Persistent organ failure lasting more than 48 hours and pancreatic necrosis and infection are important causes of death in acute pancreatitis.

Once mild acute pancreatitis is controlled, it can usually be cured within 7 to 10 days, with a mortality rate of about 10%; however, severe acute pancreatitis can cause death within 24 hours of onset, with a mortality rate of up to 50%.

Chronic pancreatitis is mostly caused by prolonged acute pancreatitis and is relatively rare in clinical practice.

There is a pain called "pancreatitis"

Once you are "afflicted" with pancreatitis, it can be described as "life is worse than death."

The upper abdominal pain during an attack of pancreatitis is a persistent and severe pain. Many people call the pain of pancreatitis "heart-wrenching pain!! The pain that life cannot bear!!!"

Some netizens even complained: "When pancreatitis strikes, it feels as if sulfuric acid is poured into my stomach!"

Dr. Yao Wei, chief physician of the Department of Gastroenterology at Peking University Third Hospital, introduced the following characteristics of pancreatic pain in his article "Pain Characteristics of Pancreatitis" on the Youlai Doctors Popular Science Platform:

1. Very severe pain, generally unbearable;

2. Pancreatic pain is usually persistent, like a knife cutting or bloating;

3. The pancreas is located at the back of the abdominal wall, in front of the spine, so pancreatic pain is often accompanied by back pain, radiating to the back;

4. Patients often prefer to adopt a curled-up position;

5. Patients with pancreatic pain may experience significant abdominal distension and even incomplete intestinal obstruction.

Pancreatitis is most likely to affect 7 types of people

• Binge Eater
• Chronic alcoholics
• People who eat greasy food
• Obese people
• People with gallstones
• Hyperlipidemia population
• People with a family history of genetic disease

What causes pancreatitis?

1

Biliary system diseases

46.5% of pancreatitis cases are related to biliary system diseases, which is currently the leading cause of pancreatitis.

Diseases of the biliary system, including gallstones and inflammation of the bile duct, may reflux into the pancreatic duct after flowing into the sphincter of Oddis, activating trypsin and pancreatic lipase and causing pancreatitis.

2

Alcoholism and overeating

Studies have found that the increased incidence of acute and chronic pancreatitis is positively correlated with heavy drinking, which is particularly prominent in middle-aged people and higher in men than in women.

Excessive drinking, overeating and overeating lead to excessive secretion of pancreatic juice, which causes poor drainage of the pancreatic duct, increased pressure of pancreatic juice in the pancreaticobiliary duct system, and impaired excretion of high-concentration proteases, triggering rupture of pancreatic alveoli and the onset of the disease.

3

Surgery and Injury

Surgery and injury: abdominal surgery such as gastric and bile duct surgery that squeezes the pancreas can cause pancreatitis; falling from heights, car accidents, and multiple organ injuries can also cause acute pancreatitis.

4

Infect

Many infectious diseases can cause pancreatitis, and biliary ascariasis is one of the causes of acute pancreatitis.

When roundworms enter the bile duct and pancreatic duct, the bacteria they bring in activate pancreatic enzymes, causing pancreatitis.

There are also hyperlipidemia and hypercalcemia. Hyperlipidemia and fat embolism in blood vessels can cause local ischemia, capillary dilation, damage to blood vessel walls, and cause pancreatitis.

What should you pay attention to when you have pancreatitis?

Things to note for pancreatitis depend on the cause:

1. For mild gallstone pancreatitis, patients should go to the outpatient clinic for examination within 7-10 days after recovery from pancreatitis. Surgery for gallstones may be required.

2. For severe pancreatitis, you should go to the outpatient clinic about 4 weeks after recovery to treat your gallstones.

3. Alcoholic pancreatitis. Do not drink alcohol after pancreatitis.

4. For pancreatitis caused by hyperlipidemia, you should eat a low-fat diet and avoid eating greasy foods such as fatty meat and fried eggs.

5. For pancreatitis caused by hypercalcemia, a low-calcium diet should be adopted and less milk and nuts should be consumed.

6. If you have diabetes, pancreatic cysts, pancreatic abscesses, or pancreatic infections, you should generally go to the outpatient clinic within 7-10 days and decide on the next visit time based on your recovery.

Why is the blood drawn from a girl milky white?

Finally, let me answer the curiosity of netizens: Why is the blood drawn from the girl milky white?

The medical name for this type of blood is chylosing, and some people also call it "milk blood". It is common in patients with hyperlipidemia.

It usually manifests as the blood becoming white and turbid with a layer of oil floating on it, indicating that the blood contains a high amount of fat.

Generally speaking, after the human body eats fat substances normally, they will be digested and absorbed in the small intestine and turned into chylomicrons that enter the blood. Under normal circumstances, there are relatively few chylomicrons in the blood.

If you eat a lot of fatty foods for a long time, such as animal offal, fatty meat, etc., it will lead to an excess of chylomicrons, and the serum will gradually change from a clear light yellow liquid to a white opaque viscous liquid, which is clinically called chyle blood.

The main causes of chylosing blood include genetic factors and bad living habits.

Chylorrhea is quite harmful to the human body. When it occurs, you usually need to actively cooperate with the doctor to conduct blood lipid and lipoprotein tests to make a clear diagnosis.

Once hyperlipidemia is diagnosed, it is necessary to adjust the dietary structure in time, reduce the intake of saturated fatty acids and cholesterol, eat less animal fat and fatty meat, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, and do aerobic exercise to increase the decomposition and consumption of fat in the liver. If necessary, take oral medications as prescribed by the doctor and have regular check-ups to see whether the chylosing blood has disappeared.

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