During the holiday season, friends and family get together, happy to have a few more drinks, drinking too much alcohol may lead to acute pancreatitis. The onset of this disease is rapid and serious, and severe pancreatitis can often lead to damage to vital organs in the body, with very serious consequences. The pancreas is an important organ in our body and has two main functions: endocrine and exocrine (including pancreatic juice and insulin), simply put, it has the role of participating in digestion and absorption and promoting the body’s metabolism. The pancreatic enzymes in the pancreatic juice can digest various proteins, fats and carbohydrates in food. What is acute pancreatitis Acute pancreatitis is usually due to blockage of the pancreatic ducts and activation of pancreatic enzymes, resulting in self-digestion of the pancreas and surrounding tissues by pancreatic enzymes and secondary dysfunction of a series of organs. The typical presentation is a sudden onset of severe abdominal pain, vomiting, bloating, fever and increased blood and urine amylase a few hours after an episode of binge drinking or biliary colic. Why drinking alcohol can lead to pancreatitis When we overeat or drink too much, alcohol or food can stimulate pancreatic secretion, stimulation, In short, in addition to the direct damage to the pancreas from alcohol, heavy drinking will increase the pancreatic secretion, increased protein concentration can easily lead to edema and spasm of the duodenal papilla or lead to blockage of the ducts of pancreatic secretion, inducing pancreatic enzymes to “advance “Activation of self-digestion, pancreatitis occurs. In addition, vomiting after drinking, spasm of the sphincter of Oddi leading to obstruction of pancreatic outflow, and activation of pancreatic enzymes by reflux of duodenal fluid can easily lead to acute pancreatitis. Acute pancreatitis is easily induced after overeating, especially after heavy drinking. Although we feel that drinking is fine so many times, but we still need to remind alcoholics that the more you drink, the higher the risk of “accidents”, the mortality rate of acute severe pancreatitis is extremely high, remember to binge drinking, heavy alcohol consumption, especially for obesity, liver and gallbladder disease should be limited to alcohol itself. The treatment of pancreatitis, light fasting, fluids, serious surgery, ICU, acute fulminant pancreatitis mortality rate is very high, even if you are lucky to pass the ghost gate may have to deal with the hospital for life, is a huge blow to the body. For general mild pancreatitis, most of them can be cured by clinical non-surgical treatment. However, severe (necrotizing) pancreatitis, should be actively treated surgically, there are still various complications and great danger after surgery, and a certain mortality rate, so we should pay attention to this kind of acute pancreatitis caused by drinking alcohol. To prevent this disease, some people with a history of chronic diseases (such as chronic pancreatitis, chronic gastritis, chronic hepatitis, biliary system diseases) should not drink alcohol. This is because the digestive function of such people is weak, poor tolerance of alcohol, prone to alcohol stimulation reaction, coupled with drinking when eating many dishes with alcohol, often unknowingly more than their own digestive capacity, overeating can directly or indirectly trigger the emergence of pancreatitis. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who have been in the business for a long time. Biliary pancreatitis is caused by the common bile duct, which is the mouth of bile excretion, and the glandular opening of the pancreas, which has a common bile duct jug abdomen, and gallstones often cause spasm or obstruction of the common bile duct, causing obstruction of pancreatic juice discharge. The pancreatic enzymes are activated, especially trypsinogen, which becomes a highly digestive enzyme, leading to self-digestion of the pancreas, thus causing pancreatitis. The reason for this is that many patients with acute pancreatitis in China have a combination of biliary tract disease and alcohol consumption is a major cause of pancreatitis, and having biliary tract stones or gallbladder stones and binge drinking and spilling is like adding insult to injury, which can easily trigger pancreatitis. What kind of uncomfortable symptoms should be alerted to the possible occurrence of pancreatitis? About 95% of the patients show continuous severe pain or cutting pain in the upper abdomen or left upper abdomen, and the pain often occurs after a full meal or alcohol consumption, and is often accompanied by abdominal distension, nausea and vomiting, pain not relieved after vomiting, and curling up due to abdominal pain. If the above discomfort occurs, it may be a symptom of pancreatitis. If symptoms such as acute abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting occur, you should go to the hospital promptly. Do not think that this is just a reaction to drinking or just take some medicine by yourself. The diagnosis can usually be confirmed by a doctor’s examination and laboratory tests for blood and urine amylase. A clear diagnosis can prevent a more serious condition.