What is chronic pancreatitis? Chronic pancreatitis is a persistent damage to pancreatic tissue and function caused by various factors in life. Chronic pancreatitis may be caused by long-term alcohol consumption, high blood calcium and high blood lipids. The pancreas may have varying degrees of alveolar atrophy or pancreatic duct malformation, partial or extensive pancreatic fibrosis or calcification, and exocrine or endocrine pancreatic dysfunction of varying severity. A. Early symptoms of chronic pancreatitis? 1, abdominal pain abdominal pain is related to the following factors (1) increased pressure in the pancreatic duct (2) increased pancreatic tissue pressure (3) concomitant neuritis. However, about 10% are painless, and the pain is mostly located in the upper left or upper middle abdomen. It is intermittent and is a drilling or dull pain. With the development of the disease, the interval of pain is gradually shortened and the duration is prolonged. 2.Diabetes mellitus commonly occurs after several years of recurrent attacks, with symptoms similar to those of ordinary diabetes mellitus, and the condition is generally mild. 3. Steatorrhea disease develops as a result of reduced exocrine secretion of the pancreas, and clinically shows impaired digestion and absorption of fat and protein. Due to the loss of large amounts of fat and protein, patients may show signs of wasting, weakness and malnutrition. 4, weight loss weight loss is the result of the combined effect of multiple factors, long-term recurrent abdominal pain, after eating can trigger or aggravate the onset of abdominal pain, affecting the normal metabolism of the body. The longer the course of the disease, the more serious the condition, the more obvious weight loss. Chronic pancreatitis daily health care a. Strictly prohibit alcohol and eat low-fat. Drinking alcohol and eating high-fat, fatty foods is an important cause of acute attacks or delayed chronic pancreatitis, so be sure to prohibit alcohol and eating fatty foods. Second, and biliary disease, should be treated together. Chronic pancreatitis and cholecystitis gallstone disease, if the biliary tract disease is not removed, pancreatitis is difficult to cure, therefore, to treat biliary tract disease, biliary tract disease is cured, chronic pancreatitis is often cured at the same time. Third, the heart joy, avoid depression. Liver and gallbladder diseases, heart and brain diseases require a cheerful and optimistic mood, pancreatic disease, especially chronic pancreatitis, especially avoid depression and worry.