Almost any person on the question: "What does the pancreas need?" Will answer: "There is produced insulin."And without insulin, as everyone knows, diabetes develops - a disease that leads to severe consequences and disability. Why is it written that honey can be eaten with pancreatitis, because it is almost the same as sugar?
A little about the gland
The pancreas is arranged as follows. Most of the body is occupied by exocrine cells, which are responsible for the production of digestive enzymes( enzymes).Only in some sections of the gland are the islets of Langerhans - sections without ducts connected with blood, in which different cells produce various hormones, including insulin. The function of insulin is to convert carbohydrates into energy substrates. If this hormone is not enough, or it is not perceived normally, blood sugar rises, which leads to the development of the disease.
Pancreatic to carbohydrate ratio
Carbohydrates are needed for our body: all organs, and in particular the brain, receive energy from them. The organism understands not complex polysaccharides, which are contained in fruits and berries, buns, pasta and sweets, and their parts are monosaccharides. In this form they are transformed by the pancreas with the help of some enzymes, and already with insulin sugar insulin works directly.
If the structure of the pancreas is damaged, it becomes very difficult to cope with carbohydrates.
Warning! Honey consists entirely of simple carbohydrates( mostly from glucose and fructose) dissolved in a small amount of water, that is, for its processing the pancreas in any case it is necessary to work. But the activity of the organ will not be the same as in splitting complex carbohydrates, but less - you do not have to connect the enzymatic function( carbohydrates are already simple).
Here we come to the question of whether honey can be used for pancreatitis. The answer to it is the following: if the inflammation proceeds chronically, while the islet( endocrine) part of the organ is not involved, then this bee product can be observed observing the measure. If there is swelling of the gland, or as a result of pancreatitis, diabetes mellitus develops, honey, like other carbohydrates, should not be contained in the diet.
Useful properties of sweet amber
Despite its danger in pancreatitis, this beekeeping product has many benefits, including for the pancreas:
- has antibacterial properties;
- cleanses the intestines from pathogenic microorganisms;
- strengthens the immune defense of the pancreas;
- has a mild laxative effect, which is useful for pancreatitis, which occurs with constipation;
- improves blood composition;
- retaining the genome of the gland cells, prevents its cancerous degeneration;
- improves fat metabolism, relieving the sick pancreas from part of its work.
All these properties of the bee product, if they do not heal the disease completely, allow achieving a stable and long-lasting remission.
Warning! Before you start using honey in pancreatitis, determine the level of glucose in the blood - first on an empty stomach, then after the load with glucose. This test will help to identify underlying diabetes mellitus.
Application of the product in different stages of the disease
In different periods of the disease honey can have both a beneficial effect and damage. The same applies to the forms of pathology, and its complications. Let us consider in more detail.
Honey with acute and exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis
Acute pancreatitis causes swelling of the gland. In such conditions, any - exocrine, and endocrine - cells can not work normally. To recover, the body needs to be unloaded as much as possible so that all the forces it has spent on its recovery. Therefore, in these cases, it is not that honey is completely excluded for several days, and then it is administered with extreme caution, gradually.
Thus, with acute and exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis, honey should be completely excluded from the diet. It can be administered no earlier than a month after exacerbation, and 3 months after acute pancreatitis.
Product for chronic pancreatitis in remission phase
In this stage, the product of beekeeping can only be provided under one condition - the absence of diabetes.
Tip! Before honey is included in the diet, go through a glucose tolerance test, and give blood for the level of glycated hemoglobin. This is the only way you can learn about diabetes, which has a latent flow.
With cholecystopancreatitis
Honey with pancreatitis and cholecystitis outside the stage of their exacerbation only benefits, maintaining a good level of the excretory ducts, improving the cleavage of fats( thus unloading both pancreatic and bile ducts that participate in fat metabolism).With both these types of inflammation it is recommended to take not flower, but zabrusny honey.
Zabrusnyj honey
This is a special honey, which contains both lids from honeycombs, and a certain amount of wax. Sam zabrus is an indicator of the maturity of the bee product, that is, its presence indicates that honey already contains a full range of nutrients. If you want to learn more about the properties of this beekeeping product, we recommend reading the article about bee zabrus.
Honey with zabrusom kills pathogenic microorganisms, improves intestinal motility, maintains the normal tone of the papilla of the duodenum, where the pancreas opens. He also normalizes hematopoiesis and takes an active part in fat metabolism.
Usage rules
For the treatment of pancreatitis, honey should be consumed 30-40 minutes before breakfast, dissolving it in cool water or washing it down( you can and dry).You need to start with ½ teaspoon, carefully analyzing the change in your condition. The appearance of rumbling in the abdomen, diarrhea or pains indicates that the product or does not suit you at all, or it was started too early.