How overeating affects the pancreas

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I love the story of one girl who gorged herself half to death. I almost melted my pancreas.

Gluttony is such a mental disorder. Sometimes people simply overeat, sometimes on the contrary they hardly eat, but then they compensate for this by gluttony. That is, both bulimia and anorexia can lead to acute distension of the stomach.

So ten years ago, a medical journal published the story of one girl who was so overeating from stress that she got acute pancreatitis.

In one sitting, the girl ate 300 grams of pork, a package of instant noodles, eighty (80) slices of bread and three liters of different soda.

The girl was not fat. She is 173 centimeters tall and weighs 48 kilograms. Thin, I would say.

And then she ate the whole thing and fell asleep. In the middle of the night, the girl woke up with a sharp pain in her stomach and called an ambulance. At the hospital, she was slowly pumped out the contents of her stomach, which was about 6 liters. The stomach occupied the entire stomach.

With its volume, the distended stomach squeezed the duodenum and could not empty itself.

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In the same place, the pancreatic duct opens into the duodenum, through which the contents of the stomach enter the pancreas. She got inflamed.

The girl was allowed to eat a little thin one only 12 (twelve) days after hospitalization. All this time, her stomach slowly returned to normal.

Well, a psychiatrist and a psychotherapist then worked on the victim a lot.

They say that the stomach can burst from overeating. In addition, high blood fat levels or constriction of the duodenum can cause pancreatitis. You can die from all this. So I do not advise you to overeat at once. Sometimes this is irreversible, and the stomach will not empty without urgent medical attention.

How much can you eat at a time?

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