Every Spring Festival, one of the most commonly encountered acute abdominal diseases is acute pancreatitis: due to its seriousness and relatively high mortality rate, it cannot but attract people's attention.

Understanding a little knowledge in this area will help to adjust the holiday diet structure, strengthen the concept of prevention, and reduce the incidence of disease.

The pancreas is the second largest digestive gland in the human body and has both endocrine and exocrine functions.

The secreted pancreatic juice contains a series of digestive enzymes, which play an important role in the digestion of food and the normal metabolism of sugar, fat, and protein.

Once inflammation occurs in the pancreas, it will seriously affect the body's metabolic process, cause a series of physiological disorders, and even be life-threatening. It can be said that "one trigger affects the whole body."

Why do the number of patients with acute pancreatitis double during the holidays?

The reason is very simple, that is, some people ignore health care, change their original regular eating habits and reasonable dietary structure, overeat and drink a lot.

In particular, excessive intake of greasy food increases the burden on the pancreas and increases the pressure in the pancreatic duct, causing inflammation of the duodenal mucosa and edema of the duodenal papilla. This blocks the discharge of pancreatic juice in the pancreatic duct, causing pancreatic juice stagnation and pancreatic tissue edema.

Over time, pancreatic juice will overflow, pancreatic enzymes will be activated, and pancreatic tissue will be digested. In severe cases, it will become acute necrotizing pancreatitis, which often requires emergency surgery.

Theoretically speaking, it is not difficult to prevent acute pancreatitis. As long as you don't be greedy for food or drinks, the chance of developing the disease will be greatly reduced.

Of course, it is natural to eat more food during the holidays and drink a small amount of alcohol, but it must be done in moderation and learn to exercise moderation.

You should also pay attention to adjusting your diet structure. You should consume an appropriate amount of meat and seafood, don't neglect fresh vegetables, keep the proportion of staple food, and don't overeat at dinner.

If you can do the above points, you can generally avoid acute pancreatitis attacks.

By the way, people with gallstones should pay more attention to preventing acute pancreatitis during holidays.

Because the pancreatic duct and bile duct merge together, they both open into the duodenum.

When gallstones block the opening, bile will flow back into the pancreas, not only increasing the pressure in the pancreatic duct, but also activating pancreatic enzymes.

Causing the pancreatic tissue to digest itself.

It can be seen that gallstones themselves are a risk factor for the onset of pancreatitis. If overeating and alcoholism are added to it, it will undoubtedly make things worse and the chance of the disease will be greatly increased.