Is pancreatitis serious?

Pancreatitis is actually a relatively serious disease problem, which is often caused by various stimuli. Patients often show symptoms of pancreatic edema, congestion or necrosis, as well as abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting.

1. Pancreatitis is an inflammatory disease caused by various stimuli that cause the pancreas to secrete a variety of digestive and dissolving enzymes, thereby causing "self-digestion" of the pancreas and its surrounding tissues. It can be divided into acute and chronic types. A disease of the pancreas caused by the autodigestive action of trypsin. The pancreas is edematous, congested, or hemorrhagic and necrotic. Clinically, symptoms include abdominal pain, abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting, and fever. Blood and urine tests show elevated amylase levels. Under normal circumstances, pancreatic juice contains inactive pancreatic zymogen in its glandular tissue. Pancreatic juice continuously flows into the duodenum along the pancreatic duct through the sphincter of Oddi of the common bile duct. Due to the presence of bile in the duodenum and the secretion of enterokinase by the duodenal wall mucosa, under the action of the two, pancreatic zymogen begins to transform into a highly active digestive enzyme. If the outflow tract is blocked and excretion is not smooth, it can cause pancreatitis.

2. Mild acute pancreatitis rarely causes complications, while severe acute pancreatitis often causes multiple complications. Pancreatic abscess, pancreatic pseudocyst, organ failure, secondary abdominal, respiratory, urinary tract infections, etc. may occur during the disease, and the spread of infection may cause sepsis. A few may develop into chronic pancreatitis. Chronic pancreatitis is mainly manifested by chronic abdominal pain and pancreatic endocrine and exocrine insufficiency, which is related to the occurrence of pancreatic cancer. The most common complications are pseudocyst formation and mechanical obstruction of the duodenum and common canal.

3. Under normal circumstances, pancreatic juice contains inactive pancreatic zymogen in its glandular tissue. Pancreatic juice continuously flows into the duodenum along the pancreatic duct through the sphincter of Oddi of the common bile duct. Due to the presence of bile in the duodenum and the secretion of enterokinase by the duodenal wall mucosa, under the action of the two, pancreatic zymogen begins to transform into a highly active digestive enzyme. If the outflow tract is blocked and excretion is not smooth, it can cause pancreatitis.