How to check for pancreatic disease?

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Pancreatitis is a disease caused by part of the pancreas. It is mainly caused by the digestion of pancreatic trypsin. The common pancreatic diseases include edema, bleeding, congestion, vomiting, fever and other symptoms. According to the severity of the disease, pancreatitis will have different degrees of complications, and the relatively minor complications of pancreatitis are rare, But for the more serious pancreatitis, the possibility of complications is very large, often accompanied by pancreatic abscess, pancreatic pseudocyst, organ failure, and even septicemia. So how to check for pancreatic disease? Let's talk about it now.

How to check for pancreatic disease?

First: check whether you have pancreatitis, you can judge according to the number of white blood cells. For patients with pancreatitis, if the infection is more serious, the number of white blood cells in the body will increase significantly, and the nucleus will also have obvious metastasis. In addition, for patients with diabetes, urine sugar will increase significantly, and protein will appear in the urine.

Second, the detection of serum and urine amylase can be used to check whether the patient is suffering from pancreatitis. Under certain circumstances, for a normal person, the normal value of serum is 8-64 Winslow units, but if the patient is suffering from pancreatitis, the serum and urine amylase will increase. If there is a continuous increase, when the value increases to > 256 Winslow units, It's almost diagnosed as pancreatitis.

Third: check whether got pancreatitis, but also through the serum ferritin for diagnosis. Ferritin is the heme released from the destruction of red blood cells in pancreatic juice. Heme is transformed into heme in the action of elastase and lipase. Patients will appear ferritin soon after the disease.

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In addition to the above-mentioned methods, we can also check and diagnose pancreatitis by X-ray, B-ultrasound and CT. In our daily life, we can also carry out self-examination according to our own situation. For example, when there are some symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, fever, abdominal pain and pancreatic insufficiency, it is better to go to a regular hospital for examination, Diagnosis of the disease, the right medicine, so as not to delay the disease.