There is a joke on the network: the highest level of eating buffet is “holding the wall in, holding the wall out”, often buffet restaurants are not eaten down, but their own bodies eat down. The long-term hazards of eating and drinking are not to mention the fact that it will induce a critical disease – acute pancreatitis. How dangerous is pancreatitis? Acute pancreatitis is divided into light (edema type) and heavy (hemorrhagic necrosis type) two, clinical light patients account for about 90%, heavy accounted for 10%. The light type of acute pancreatitis mainly damages the pancreas. The hemorrhagic-necrotic type of pancreatitis is particularly dangerous and is often complicated by toxic shock and multi-organ failure, with a very high mortality rate. In mild cases of pancreatitis, hospitalization, fasting, and fluids are required, while in severe cases, resuscitation, ICU, and even surgery are required. The mortality rate of acute heavy pancreatitis is very high, and even if you are lucky to get through the ghost gate, you are afraid that it will be complicated by chronic pancreatitis in the future, which is a huge blow to your body. Pancreatitis is clinically known as the “three” diseases: life, money and time. The life is to describe the onset of acute severe pancreatitis is dangerous, life-threatening within a short period of time; to money means that even if the life is saved, the entire treatment is very expensive; to time is to say that even if the cost is huge, to maintain life, the entire hospital treatment time is longer, once the serious complications will take longer. Why is the pancreas such a “life-threatening” organ? The pancreas is an inconspicuous organ that is rarely in trouble, but it is not a minor disease. The pancreas is located deep in the abdominal cavity, and although it is small in size, it plays an important role and has exocrine and endocrine functions. Endocrine function: The pancreas is capable of regulating blood sugar levels with hormones such as glucagon and insulin, so patients whose pancreas is damaged by chronic pancreatitis often have diabetes. Exocrine function: The pancreas can secrete digestive juices containing a variety of digestive enzymes, and the digestive juices secreted by the pancreas enter the duodenum via the pancreatic duct. The digestive juices secreted by the pancreas are the most important digestive juices of the body, thoroughly breaking down various components of food, including various proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. How pancreatitis occurs Normally in the pancreas pancreatic enzymes are inactive in the form of enzymes that are activated in the intestine before they have digestive and catabolic functions. Activated pancreatic juice is highly digestible for food, and likewise, activated pancreatic juice is strongly corrosive to the abdominal cavity. The occurrence of pancreatitis is directly related to the premature activation of pancreatic enzymes in the pancreas, which is often abnormally activated by intestinal fluid or bile reflux, obstruction of pancreatic fluid elimination, alcohol, etc. The activated pancreatic enzymes, which are used to digest the “big fish and meat”, start to digest their own tissues, leading to the digestion of the pancreas itself, followed by a series of chain reactions such as inflammation, bleeding, necrosis and infection. In addition to the direct damage to the pancreas from alcohol, heavy drinking will increase the pancreatic secretion and protein concentration, leading to blockage of the pancreatic secretion ducts and inducing the activation of pancreatic enzymes “in advance”. Although people think that drinking is fine so many times, but we still need to remind alcoholics the more they drink, the higher the risk of “accidents”. Whenever the Chinese New Year or around the holiday season, the hospital gastroenterology department admitted a particularly large number of patients with acute pancreatitis, precisely because of the number of people who overeat during the holiday season, which also illustrates from the fact that “eating and drinking, overeating” can trigger pancreatitis. The excretion of bile and the opening of the pancreatic ducts have a common biliopancreatic jug abdomen. Gallstones that get stuck here can cause obstruction of pancreatic drainage and bile reflux into the pancreatic duct, leading to activation of pancreatic zymogen, which can cause pancreatitis. The two common causes together can easily trigger pancreatitis. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal of money from the internet. If the above discomfort occurs, it may be a symptom of pancreatitis. If you suddenly have severe abdominal pain, vomiting, abdominal distention and fever a few hours after eating and drinking or having a biliary colic attack, you should go to the hospital promptly and should not simply think that it is just a stomachache after drinking or just take some medicine by yourself. The important thing is to prevent pancreatitis is very troublesome to treat, but not difficult to prevent, everyone can do, is to avoid overeating, especially alcohol abuse, usually have gallstones and other biliary tract diseases should be actively and regular treatment, there are many people regard gallstones as a minor disease, do not want to manage to eat and drink as usual, but acute pancreatitis is after all a dangerous disease, take a healthy lifestyle, avoid significant risk factors, reduce the risk of pancreatitis. The most important thing is to reduce the risk of pancreatitis.