When a person finds out that he has chronic pancreatitis, he is very upset. It is even more upsetting if a neighbor pours oil on the fire, saying that the disease cannot be treated and that the pancreas cannot be operated on, since one cannot live without it. In fact, this is not so. Operations are also made to remove it. In the future, of course, following the diet and the recommendations of the attending physician, such patients live normally. In most cases, a person is not treated until he is taken away by an ambulance with an attack of acute pancreatitis. During treatment and after returning home, you will have to follow a certain diet, because now not all nutrition suffers from the “damaged” pancreas. At least six months to a year, you will have to limit yourself to food.
The pancreas diet should be represented mainly by vegetarian soups, boiled meat without veins, dishes from homemade fresh cottage cheese, cereals, berry juices, puddings, fruits. Going to bed, you must drink yogurt or kefir, juice from beets or carrots.
When the pancreas hurts, the diet prohibits the consumption of any alcoholic beverages, muffins, fatty meat and fish, lard, canned foods, smoked, garlic, radishes, onions, radishes, pickles, sour cream and cream. Broths can only be bone, secondary.
The patient's health is 90% dependent on nutrition during the diet period. The pancreas does not forgive nutrition with the slightest error. Any violation can provoke another attack.
If, however, acute pancreatitis has become chronic, what should I do? Remember that his treatment is always carried out in a complex: drugs and nutrition. Without diet therapy, there can be no question of treating a patient, both in remission and in the acute stage.
In order for the pancreas to recover, human nutrition must contain a lot of protein component. Protein should be 120-130 grams per day, with 60-70 percent of it should be protein of animal origin, and vegetable - the remaining 40-30 percent. Allowed to eat rabbit meat, chicken, turkey, lean pork, beef. Under the ban geese, ducks, game, fatty pork remain. Moreover, the meat can only be boiled or steamed, preferably pre-chopped than slices.
You can also eat fish only boiled or steamed. In chronic pancreatitis, it is very important that low-fat fish and meat have a lipotropic effect, that is, they serve as a prevention of fatty degeneration of the liver.
Homemade non-acidic cottage cheese has the same property. Curd from the store is contraindicated. You can cook steamed pudding from it or wipe it with milk and sugar. You can not drink a lot of fresh milk (no more than 1/2 cup), it is better to cook soups, cereals, jelly on it.
The daily diet as an additive may include eggs, steam omelettes, whipped protein dishes.
Proteins of plant origin should be ingested with cereals, pasta, and yesterday’s white flour bread. Legumes and meals are prohibited.
How will the pancreas react to the content of carbohydrates in the diet? Eating with their increased presence strains the insular apparatus and can provoke the appearance of diabetes mellitus. Therefore, the amount of carbohydrates should not exceed 350 grams per day and more covered by the use of honey, jam, sugar or syrup.
Of the carbohydrate products, the already mentioned bread and cereals, as well as zucchini, pumpkin, carrots, beets, potatoes, are allowed. It is necessary to cook vegetables steamed, since a decoction of them increases the function of the pancreas, which in this case is undesirable. Apples are baked, the rest of the fruits and berries, except sour, can be eaten little by little, one kind a day.
The amount of food eaten per day should also be reduced from 3-3.5 kg to 2-2.5 kg.
Diet for diseases of this kind should be gentle chemically, mechanically and thermally.