How to check for pancreatitis

  The symptoms of early onset of pancreatitis are similar to those of other digestive diseases, so to confirm whether it is pancreatitis, you need to go to the hospital for relevant tests. The tests include blood amylase test, urine amylase test, routine blood test, orthoferrin test and ultrasound of the pancreas.  At this stage, the diagnosis of pancreatitis can be confirmed by the measurement of blood and urine amylase. Under normal circumstances, amylase in human blood and urine is within the normal range, but in the case of pancreatitis, there is a continuous increase, so the measurement of blood and urine amylase is very important for the diagnosis of pancreatitis. The blood test is mainly to look at the number of white blood cells in the blood, which will be relatively high after an attack of pancreatitis. The diagnosis can also be confirmed by detecting serum orthoferritin, which is the hemoglobin released from the destruction of red blood cells in the pancreatic fluid, and is present in the blood of patients with pancreatitis. In addition, ultrasound examination of the pancreas is also very important to determine whether there is pancreatitis, and a series of phenomena such as increased volume and uneven echogenicity will appear under the ultrasound.  People with symptoms such as abdominal pain and vomiting can go to a hospital gastroenterology department for these tests to determine if they are suffering from pancreatitis.