Pancreatitis Support Group

Chronic pancreatitis can present as episodes of acute inflammation in a previously injured pancreas, or as chronic damage with persistent pain or malabsorption. Patients with chronic pancreatitis can present with persistent abdominal pain or steatorrhea, as well as severe nausea. Some patients with chronic pancreatitis often look very sick, while others don't appear to be...

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New to Daily Strength / Vitamin question

juicelucy
juicelucy
I just discovered this site and am so glad about it! I have been battling pancreatitis for the last year and a half and get so frustrated when I have a flare up. I can't seem to figure out exactly what triggers them but I do know now that I've got to change my eating habits. I started out juicing right after my first bout with P but slowly got away from it and figuring that I was healed for life I slipped back into eating yucky food and I even convinced myself that a couple of glasses of champagne would be ok...NOT! Born, raised and living in the South where most food is fried, creamy and or mayo ridden doesn't help. I'm back on the juice kick and determined to stay well. It is strange to me how little the medical people that I have worked with through this offer very little nutritional advice. Which brings me to my question today...is it bad to take vitamins and nutitional supplements?

So excited to find y'all and hope we can all help each other be our very best!
Peace,
Juicelucy
deleted_user
deleted_user
Hi

I would ask your GI first, but my doctor has me taking a number of anti-oxidants that have shown some evidence of helping with Pancreatitic inflammation. I take 400mg of Vit E, 100 mg of Grapeseed extract, 10,000 units of Vit A, fish oil, and acidophilus or probiotics. The good news is my CP is under control for the most part, but the doctor can't confirm if it's the antioxidants. I'm just glad I'm able to function and I would rather take vitamins/antioxidants than more drugs. The other advice I got was to stick to a very low fat diet, I try to stay around 20-25 GMs per day...which isn't easy.

Good luck & I hope you feel better soon!
Garden girl
tsj444
tsj444
Sticking to a low fat diet as gardengirl suggested is essential to keeping the pancreas happy. Supplements especially those that help with inflammation are also a good idea. Vitamins are a good idea as well as we with this disease develop a condition called malabsorption which is just what it sounds like, we absorb less of the nutrients from food than regular nonpancreatic folks and add to that the fact most of us often just don't feel like eating alot of the time and it doesn't take long before our whole system is out of balance in a big way. I use a type of vitamin supplement that can be dissolved in liquid as it is much easier to absorb than conventional vitamin tablets. Juicing is a good idea if you don't have problems drinking juice and yes some folks do, also probiotics and any antioxidant are very important, it is all truly a crap shoot though as to what will work best for you so some experimentation is ahead for you, I wish you luck.....