Guest guest Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 Myrna, unfortunately, as most of us have learned on this group, what sets off an attack for one person may cause another no problems. Alcohol (even cooking with it) and high fatty foods are about the best constants for most of us, but what particular fatty foods causes the flare up varies. If you have the pancreas (I misspelled it earlier as pancreatic) divisum and have problems with pancreatitis, it's likely that you will continue to have problems with your pancreas, especially if it eventually goes chronic like mine did. Of course, I'm not a doctor so I could be total way off base here, but you did mention that you've already had several attacks. I started out only having acute attacks too. The doctors now think I have been fighting this most of my life (pancreatic divisum is a birth defect) and there were two episodes when I was between 3 and 5 that they now think were undiagnosed pancreatic attacks. They didn't check for it, because in the 1970's no one really thought a child could get pancreatitis and so they never checked my enzyme levels. Even now, some doctors don't think children can get pancreatitis. I also had a lot of stomach illnesses when I was a child. You might want to start keeping a food diary so that you can pin down which foods seem to cause you the most problems and then avoid them (i.e what you ate, when you ate it and when you had flare ups you can see if there is anything fatty you ate before hand or if you seem to have attacks not long after eating a particular food). . Stress is another thing that can cause attacks , even good stress. Part of the problem with treatment of pancreatitis is that the doctors just don't know enough about the pancreas to always be able to say " this is what has caused your pancreatic attack and this is what we can do to fix it. " That's why about 25 to 30% of pancreatitis cases are labeled idiopathic. I wish I could give you much more definite answers, but that's about what I know. I do suggest that you start doing some of your own research online. Go to google.com or some other search engine and type in pancreatitis and start reading.If you need it, there are medical dictionaries online that you can access if you come across medical terms you are unfamiliar with (and trust me, you will) and need to find out what it means. http://www.tabers.com/ is one of the best, but you have to pay a yearly subscription to use it. The free ones are not as comprehensive at Taber's. Do a search on medical dictionaries and then bookmark the free ones for future use, unless you want to pay the fee for one of the more expensive ones like Taber's.. Sorry this has become such a tome and I thought I was just going to type a little note. Sorry, hope this was of some help to you. Kimber -- Kimber Vallejo, CA hominid2@... Note: All advice given is personal opinion, not equal to that of a licensed physician or health care professional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 kimber, Hi! I don´t speak english, but i understand when i read, maybe you can learn some spanish when i write to you. Mafe my dougther is better, and i hope with RCPE she will never have an attack again, she has to eat little fatfood, and her control will be on 6 months. Sincerely Pilar. _________________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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