Pancreatitis
Pancreatitis is inflammation in the pancreas. The pancreas is a long, flat gland that sits tucked behind the stomach in the upper abdomen. The pancreas produces enzymes that help digestion and hormones that help regulate the way your body processes sugar (glucose).
Symptoms
Acute pancreatitis signs and symptoms include:
- Severe upper abdominal pain, abdominal pain that radiates to your back, feels worse after eating
- Fever with chills
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Tenderness when touching the abdomen
Chronic pancreatitis signs and symptoms include:
- Upper abdominal pain
- Loss of weight
- Oily, smelly stools (steatorrhea)
Causes
Pancreatitis occurs when digestive enzymes become activated while still in the pancreas, irritating the cells of your pancreas and causing inflammation.
Conditions that can lead to pancreatitis include:
- Abdominal surgery
- Alcoholism
- Certain medications
- Cystic fibrosis
- Gallstones
- High calcium levels in the blood (hypercalcemia)
- High triglyceride levels in the blood (hypertriglyceridemia)
- Injury to the abdomen
- Obesity
- Pancreatic cancer
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), a procedure used to treat gallstones
- Excessive alcohol consumption
- Cigarette smoking
- Obesity
- Family history of pancreatitis
Complications
Pancreatitis can cause serious complications, including:
- Pseudocyst
- Infection
- Kidney failure
- Breathing problems
- Diabetes
- Malnutrition
- Pancreatic cancer
Homoeopathic Scope
The aim of homeopathy is not only to treat pancreatitis but to address its underlying cause and individual susceptibility. As far as therapeutic medication is concerned, several well-proved medicines are available for pancreatitis treatment that can be selected on the basis of cause, sensations, and modalities of the complaints. For individualized remedy selection and treatment, the patient should consult a qualified homeopathic doctor in person.
Homoeopathic Invention
As per the latest research, pancreatitis may be caused by Indigestible morsel conflict. This is typically brought on by arguments with family members, for instance, over a “property”, or a “money issue", and by insults or accusations that are hard to digest.
Medicines
Homoeopathic Medicines
Carbo Animalis :
Indurated pancreas; profuse, tasteless, thin saliva of sweetish, putrid odor; eating causes distress and burning in the stomach; long-lasting nausea after meat; vomiting.
Carbo-veg :
Raising of watery fluid from the stomach; foul taste and offensive odor from the mouth; pains deep in between stomach and abdomen; distention of stomach and abdomen.
Conium [Con] :
Acute Pancreatitis; sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhea at night; vomiting of a white substance consisting of saliva without any admixture of the contents of either stomach or bowels.
Iodum [Iod] :
Great emaciation; hungry, anxious, if he cannot get food at the regular hour; eats enormously yet grows thin; pancreas enlarged; abdominal pulsations; soapy taste; fat in stools.
Iris-vers [Iris] :
Burning distress in region of the pancreas; vomiting of sweetish water; saliva has a greasy taste; green, watery diarrhea, offensive flatus, smelling like copper; diarrhea contains undigested fat; bilious vomiting.
Kali-bichrome [Kali-bi] :
Ulceration of duodenum; tongue yellow coated; burning in pharynx and stomach; dislike to meat, longing for beer and acid drinks; feeling of coldness in stomach and bowels; dull pain and stitches in right hypochondrium.
