The pancreas produces enzyme-rich pancreatic juice to break down and subsequently absorb food.If the ducts of the pancreas are blocked, the enzymes produced are delayed and begin to break down the organ itself, causing inflammation and pancreatitis.Pancreatitis is a common disease in the modern world.A person with an unhealthy lifestyle is more susceptible to disease than others: smoking, alcohol abuse and eating junk food.The causes of the disease are diverse:
- drinking alcohol.
- Poor nutrition, overfeeding.
- Abdominal injuries.
- Infectious diseases of the digestive system.
- Gallbladder disease.
- parasites.
- Taking certain medications and allergic reactions.
- Complication after surgery (about 5%).
It is necessary to eliminate factors affecting the development of the disease.In special cases, when pancreatitis is the result of trauma or another disease, for example, gallstones, it is possible to cure.
Basic nutrition for pancreatitis
Unfortunately, it is often impossible to completely cure, but there is a probable chance to stop the destruction of the pancreas and try to reduce recurrences.During pancreatitis of the pancreas, nutrition is of great importance.acute condition is solved by medicines;The main thing is dietary nutrition.
The main principle of nutrition during pancreatitis is not to overload the pancreas.Try to reduce the production of enzymes.Food should be easily digestible without fermentation.It is necessary to eat often, in small portions.A small portion means less load on the diseased organ.During an exacerbation, frequent split meals are excluded.The less and less a person eats, the better.The meal break reaches 12 hours.In pancreatitis, food with a warm, soft consistency is welcome.
It is important for a patient suffering from pancreatitis to study in detail what should not be eaten categorically, what foods should be avoided during pancreatitis and what foods are allowed to be eaten.
Authorized products
- Dry bread or crackers.
- Dietary meat: lean beef, rabbit, chicken and turkey white parts.
- Dairy products: milk, low-fat cottage cheese and yogurt.It is necessary to monitor the fat content of the product.Cottage cheese not more than 2%, preferably low-fat.It is advisable to exclude fermented baked milk, sour cream and cream.
- lean fish.Preferably cod.
- Cereals and any pasta.
- Vegetables that do not cause severe gas formation.Carrot, potato, beet, pumpkin, zucchini.
- Fruits: exclusively green apples, pears, bananas, avocados, persimmons.It is preferable to bake fruit.
- Weak tea, dried fruit or berry compotes.
Prohibited products
- alcohol.Even low-alcohol drinks should be completely excluded during the diet!
- Chocolate, sugar, desserts, cakes, cookies, pastries and other products that contain a lot of sugar.
- Pork and red fish.
- Spices, spices, salt, smoked meat.
- Fermented vegetables: white cabbage, radish, onion, garlic, spinach, radish.
- Fruits: grapes, red apples, citrus fruits, peaches, plums.
- Coffee, strong black or green tea, cocoa, carbonated drinks, packaged juice.
- Cereals and porridges: millet, pearl barley, corn.
- Legumes, mushrooms, nuts.
A little rest is allowed during the remission period.For example, it is acceptable to drink weak coffee with milk.For slimming, use low-fat sour cream, olive or linseed oil.
Soups that stimulate gastric secretion are not recommended for pancreatitis.However, in addition to exacerbation, it is allowed to eat soups with vegetable broths.A spoonful of honey for dessert won't hurt.
Despite the limited variety of food products in pancreatitis, a well-designed menu makes the diet diverse.
Pancreatitis type and nutrition
Pancreatitis is classified according to the nature of the disease:
- Acute pancreatitis.
- Chronic pancreatitis.
Depending on the type, an appropriate treatment and diet is prescribed, which is developed by the doctor.
Acute pancreatitis is treated in a hospital.This is a serious condition and can be fatal without immediate medical attention.In addition to the performed surgical intervention, the following conditions must be met during acute pancreatitis:
- bed rest
- Inhibition of pancreatic function.
- drug treatment.
- starvation diet.
During exacerbation of pancreatitis, fasting is indicated.A fasting diet can last up to three days.A person should drink 1.5-2 liters of liquid - mineral water will do, it needs to release gas, weak black or green tea or rose tincture, only pure water.If the patient's condition is severe, then fasting lasts up to seven days, nutrients are delivered intravenously.
The diet in acute pancreatitis should be gentle immediately after fasting.It is allowed to eat oatmeal, slimy soups and boiled rice.During an exacerbation, the main rule is to introduce food gradually.In the first days, food is low-calorie, slimy and does not irritate the gastrointestinal tract.As recovery progresses, volume and caloric content increase.
After the acute phase, the disease becomes chronic.Chronic pancreatitis is characterized by low-grade inflammation and periodic pain.Attacks are triggered by drinking alcohol and irritating food.
To prevent frequent relapses and reduce pain, the diet of pancreatic pancreatitis should be followed throughout life.The diet should include proteins of vegetable and animal origin.But the amount of fat is reduced to the limit.Be careful with carbohydrates.The diet for chronic pancreatitis is carefully designed so that the patient receives the necessary nutrients, despite the limited permitted list of foods.In addition, vitamins may be prescribed.
Therapeutic diet in pancreatitis
How to eat properly during pancreatitis so as not to damage the pancreas?
Soviet doctors also developed a special therapeutic diet for patients with pancreatitis.It is called Pevzner diet No. 5.And although diet therapy has changed over the years, nutrition for the treatment of pancreatitis is still based on diet No. 5.In case of exacerbation, Pevzner diet No. 5p is prescribed.
Diet for chronic pancreatitis is quite diverse.Diet No. 5 allows milk sausage and doctor's sausage.However, given the modern reality, it is better to refuse sausages.If you want, try making your own sausage.At first, before diet food becomes a habit, it is better to make a menu for the week and buy the necessary products according to the list.You should avoid unnecessary trips to the store, waiting for the opportunity to purchase a prohibited product.
Weekly menu for pancreatitis
first day:
- Breakfast: finely ground oatmeal, cook until viscous.weak green tea.
- Breakfast: yogurt.
- Dinner: mashed potatoes with steamed turkey cutlet, berry compote.
- Breakfast: baked green apple.
- Dinner: pumpkin porridge with semolina, weak black tea.
- Before going to bed: low-fat cottage cheese.
second day:
- Breakfast: steamed omelette or in the oven, rose infusion.
- Breakfast: boiled carrots with a minimum amount of oil.
- Lunch: vegetable puree soup.cracker.Add a spoonful of vegetable oil.Dry fruit compote.
- Breakfast: cheese sandwich, weak green tea.
- Dinner: boiled cauliflower, steamed fish fillet.Top with 10% sour cream.
- Before going to bed: yogurt.
Third day:
- Breakfast: rice porridge with milk, boiled rice, milk diluted with water.Weak black tea.
- Food: cottage cheese, prepared with semolina.Add a spoonful of honey.
- Lunch: pasta and steamed meatballs made from lean meat.Dry fruit compote.
- Breakfast: baked pear.
- Dinner: milk buckwheat soup.Green tea.
- Before going to bed: yogurt.
Fourth day:
- Breakfast: oatmeal, black tea.
- Breakfast: boiled or baked beets.
- Lunch: steamed chicken fillet with vegetable stew, rose hips.
- Breakfast: lean cookie, jelly.
- Dinner: milk vermicelli soup.
- Before going to bed: kefir.
fifth day:
- Breakfast: steamed omelette, black tea.It is convenient to prepare an omelet in a bag.Pour the raw mixture into a feed bag, tie tightly and place in boiling water.Omelet is cooked much faster than steam, without losing its properties.
- Breakfast: yogurt.
- Dinner: vegetable soup with meatballs (meat is prepared separately), compote.
- Breakfast: sandwich with butter and avocado, rose.
- Dinner: buckwheat with steamed cutlets, jelly.
- Before going to bed: low-fat cottage cheese.
Sixth day:
- Breakfast: semolina porridge boiled in water, weak coffee with milk.
- Breakfast: green apple fruit jelly.
- Lunch: pumpkin puree soup, you can add a little milk, compote.
- Breakfast: yogurt.
- Dinner: rice with turkey or chicken fillet, rose hips.
- Before going to bed: fruit jelly.
Seventh day:
- Breakfast: buckwheat milk soup.Milk is preferably diluted.
- Breakfast: banana.
- Lunch: vermicelli, steamed rabbit cutlet, compote.
- Dinner: cottage cheese, a spoonful of honey.
- Dinner: steamed vegetables, tea.
- Before going to bed: yogurt.
The probable menu of chronic pancreatitis is described;It is possible to diversify the list with allowed products.The main thing is to observe the conditions:
- It is advisable to eat food from the region where you live.Exotic fruits and vegetables are not good for you;They carry green in stores.
- Compotes are prepared from dried fruits with the addition of berries: lingonberry, blueberry, black currant.You are not allowed to drink fruit juice very often.Remember - the concentration of the drink is higher than compote, and can irritate the mucous membrane.
- Products that undergo heat treatment must be boiled or steamed.Vegetables and fruits are eaten exclusively cooked.
- Pancreatitis products should be fresh and of high quality.A healthy human body can handle sour cottage cheese or a week's worth of soup.Such a diet will lead to exacerbation of the disease during inflammation of the pancreas.
Weekly menu after exacerbation of pancreatitis
After an exacerbation, it is necessary to carefully introduce food, starting with a small amount of calories, gradually increasing to normal.Nutrition in the first week is bad.After eating, you should monitor your condition;If it worsens, be sure to consult a doctor.
The first day after fasting:
- Dry bread and jelly.
- Continue to drink plenty of fluids.
second day:
- Mucilaginous rice soup.
- Dry bread or crackers.
- Weak black tea, rose tincture, jelly.
- Continue to drink plenty of fluids.
Third day:
- Breakfast: Oatmeal, thin, slimy consistency, boiled in water.
- Lunch: liquid mashed potatoes.
- Dinner: maps.Weak black tea or rose tea.
Fourth day:
- Breakfast: semolina porridge on water.
- Lunch: liquid mashed potatoes.
- Dinner: biscuits.the neck.
fifth day:
- Breakfast: buckwheat milk soup.
- Lunch: vegetable puree from potatoes and carrots.
- Dinner: biscuits.Compote.
Sixth day:
- Breakfast: protein omelette.
- Lunch: rice soup.
- Dinner: vegetable puree from pumpkin and zucchini.black tea
Seventh day:
- Breakfast: oatmeal boiled with diluted milk.
- Lunch: vegetable stew, steamed turkey meat.
- Dinner: low-fat cottage cheese.Green tea.
- Before going to bed: oat jelly.
- Gradually, within 10-14 days, there is a return to the basic diet.
Consequences of diet insecurity
If a person ignores his condition and does not observe proper nutrition during pancreatitis, such behavior is fraught with constant exacerbations.Chronic recurrent pancreatitis is a dangerous condition of the pancreas.Constantly progressing disease increases the area of cell damage, causes complete atrophy of the organ and the development of accompanying diseases - cholecystitis, peptic ulcer, dangerous diabetes and pancreatic cancer.
The diet of patients with pancreatitis is the basis of a long, quality life.