Alcohol & Your Pancreas

Pancreatitis is a condition as severe and is caused by excessive alcohol consumption increased by the presence of stones in the bile duct, when blocking a tube called the bile duct distal generates an inflammation of the pancreas. Usually the inflammation of the pancreas occurs acutely, whereas in the chronic form there is no cure available.

Symptoms of these disease may be mentioned the intense abdominal pain that occurs in the pit of the stomach, with nausea and vomiting, the patient having an attack of severe constipation.

In 80% of cases the disease has a benign course and the person ceases to have trouble in a span of 3 to 7 days, the rest is an evolution that leads to disease state of “serious” if it takes the form early intensive treatment.

Other cause that may lead to suffering from pancreatitis is the fact that a person suffers a car accident and the seat belt by an injury blow at the level of the pancreatic gland, which brings an inflammation.

Also suffer some type of infection can cause inflammation of the parotid gland, which is the largest of the salivary glands, and can lead to acute pancreatitis.

There is currently no medication to resolve the inflammation of the pancreatic gland, therefore, if the cause is alcohol a person should avoid it and especially very young age, as the band of people between 20 and 50 years is the most affected by this disease.