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Pancreas is a very useful organ in the body which works for digestion and control blood sugar. This organ is responsible for the secretion of digestive enzymes that break down food in the intestines and the release of hormones like insulin, glucagon.

When the pancreas is messed up, you get some life-ending diseases simply because everything in the body starts to suck.

Background on Pancreatic Disease

There are several primary types of pancreatic disease as follows :

Pancreatitis — an inflammation of the pancreas can be acute (sudden and severe), or it lasts for a long term. The leading causes are caused from over-indulgence of alcoholic beverages, gallstones or infection.

Diabetes Mellitus is A disease in which body do not produce sufficient or function the pancreas or fail to produce insulin, thus blood sugar increases.

Pancreatic Cancer -- one of the malignancies which are challenging to detect in an early stage and carries a low survival potential. Key risk factors are smoking, obesity and a positive family history of pancreatic cancer

Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency — Pancreas does not secrete enough enzyme from the pancreas results can not absorb the nutrition.

In the initial stage Pancreatic Disease may not even show any obvious symptoms as such but if left untreated it can further turn into a critical one. Typical symptoms that can be shown include epigastric pain radiating to the back, decreased appetite, nausea, vomiting and unexplained weight loss.

Do you or your family has any pancreatic issues?

It is crucial to educate the family when a relative or someone in the family suffers from a pancreatic disease on the risk factors leading towards prevention of same.

Some risk factors include:

Family history of diabetes or pancreatic cancer

Consuming to many liquor

Smoking

High fat, low fiber diet

Obesity and Sedentary

Symptoms are suspect? Request an appointment for more diagnostics: blood work, imaging and possible pancreatic function tests.

How To handle the Pancreas and Avoid Disease?

To keep your pancreas in good shape, one should actually do the following :

Healthy Eating - More Veggies, More Fruit, More Grains and High Fiber

2 Avoid Alcohol and Smoking: Alcohol, Cigarette Smoke Ate Pancreas For Christmas And Make Pancreatitis, Pancreatic Cancer

Healthy Weight Management: The heaviest we are, the increased risk of diabetes and other pancreatic diseases.

Administer blood sugar control — For diabetics this means always keeping your sugar stable through a good diet and exercise.

Pancreas is an organ that is rarely considered until something goes dramatically wrong. A Healthy lifestyle will keep away all kinds of pancreatic diseases and benefit overall health. Anyone with a family history of pancreatic disease should see a doctor regularly to address potential issues.