Pancreas Pain



Pancreatic pain is usually due to acute or chronic pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer.

Location and nature of pain
pancreatic pain is felt primarily in the upper left quadrant of the abdomen that radiates to the back.

Diagnostic
Before treatment, it is imperative to know the cause of pancreatic pain. Various diagnostic tests, including blood tests and stool, ERCP, endoscopic ultrasound, CT scans, tumor marker tests (CEA and CA19-9) and biopsy must be done to find the cause of pancreatitis or 'pancreatic cancer is the cause pain.

Treatment
- Pain Relief
1. Low-fat diet decreases fat in the diet helps to reduce pain.
2. Giving up alcohol give up alcohol also helps reduce pancreatic pain.
3. Painkillers or analgesics, NSAIDs (eg, ibuprofen) can significantly reduce pancreatic pain.
4. Morphine recommended if pain is not relieved by NSAIDs.
5. Nerve block as a last resort.

Acute Pancreatitis treatment It involves above drugs for pain control and intravenous fluids and supportive care.

Surgery and other interventions:

1. Chronic pancreatitis

- Stinting- involves expanding the narrowed pancreatic duct and gives great pain pancreas.

- Waves break Pancreas Lithotripsy- Shock pancreatic stones that can be presented in the pancreatic ducts.

2. Pancreatic Cancer

Typically, patients come in a very advanced stage of pancreatic cancer excluding surgery in many cases.

The surgical procedure for the removal of the tumor is known pancreaticoduedenectomy.

If the tumor has spread to other organs which chemotherapy is used.

Pancreatic cancer Survival- Depends:
 
That The tumor is removed by surgery
 
The spread of tumor diagnosed before spreading
 
Immunity / patient health -General

If not meet the above conditions, the average survival rate is less than 1 year.

Remedy will cure your acute or chronic pancreatitis. There is currently no treatment in Western medicine that can stop or reverse the causes of chronic alcoholic pancreatitis: the death of pancreatic cells and slowed production of digestive enzymes.

Pancreatic pain is usually due to acute or chronic pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer.

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