What are the dietary taboos for pancreatitis?

During an acute attack, don’t touch anything that enters your mouth. You have to ask a doctor even to drink water. During the recovery period, alcohol is a red line that should never be touched. High-fat, high-oil, overeating, and overeating can be avoided as far as possible.

The pancreas is like a diligent digestive processing plant. It secretes digestive juices normally when you eat normally. If you suddenly stuff a bunch of oily and irritating things into it, and add alcohol to make it messy, it will panic and secrete digestive juices that cannot be discharged, and it will corrode its own "factory". The pain will really kill half of your life. Don’t believe it, I met a 28-year-old young man when I was working as a nurse in the gastroenterology department. The first time he got pancreatitis, he suffered from eating late-night snacks and drinking beer. He was hospitalized and given intravenous fluids for a week before being discharged. However, just half a month after returning home, his friends asked him to go skewers. He thought he was getting better. He drank two bottles of cold beer and showed off more than 20 skewers of grilled pork belly. In the middle of the night, he curled up into a shrimp in pain and was sent to the emergency room. The recurrent pancreatitis was even worse than the first time, and he stayed in the hospital for almost ten days before he was discharged.

Many people are cautious when they are first discharged from the hospital. They are afraid of adding too many pickles when eating plain porridge, and then relax their vigilance after two or three months. In fact, the maintenance of this disease is long-term, and it does not mean that everything will be fine after being discharged from the hospital. Nowadays, many people are confused about whether they can eat egg yolks and drink milk during the recovery period. Different doctors have different opinions. Some gastroenterologists are afraid of increasing the burden on the pancreas, and will require them to be vegetarian for the first three months, and even the egg yolks are not allowed to be touched. ； However, some nutritionists believe that as long as the blood lipid index is stable and there is no abdominal pain, proper supplementation of high-quality protein can help the body recover. For example, eating boiled egg whites every day, drinking half a cup of low-fat milk, or even a small amount of boiled egg yolks is okay. In fact, there is no need to stick to the standard. It mainly depends on your body's reaction. If you don't feel uncomfortable after eating, you can try a small amount. If you feel tightness and pain in the upper abdomen after eating, stop immediately.

You don’t have to avoid it completely when you go out for a dinner. Just don’t hold on to your face and drink. Don’t touch red oil pans, fried foods, or fatty dishes. If you’re really hungry, order some stir-fried vegetables or boiled lean meat slices. Put down your chopsticks when you’re about seventy full. Don’t sit with everyone chatting and eating for two or three hours, and accidentally eat too much. Don’t rely on your luck that “just one bite will be fine”. I have seen too many patients who have relapsed. They all started with a bite of fried pork, a bite of cream cake, and a sip of cold beer. The pancreas is a very delicate organ. If you fool it, it will not hurt at all.