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Tomatoes for chronic pancreatitis: fresh, boiled and stewed
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Often, all our culinary preferences overlook certain pathological processes in the body, especially if it concerns the organs of the digestive tract. Pancreatitis is an inflammation of the pancreas - a very important link in the chain of digestion of food, tk. It is she who produces pancreatic juice, whose food enzymes are involved in the breakdown of carbohydrates, fats, proteins in the duodenum. This disease can not be ignored, it makes itself felt by severe pain, nausea, vomiting, weakness during the period of exacerbation. In chronic course, the symptoms are somewhat erased, but they are forced to "reckon" with themselves and not eat everything. Juicy fleshy tomatoes - a favorite vegetable of many people in the summer, and not for nothing. In their composition, glucose, fructose, organic acids, proteins, pectins, carotenoids, B vitamins, including folic acid, ascorbic acid, fatty acids, iron, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, zinc. So should you abandon such a storehouse of nutrients or can you still eat tomatoes in pancreatitis?
Tomatoes for chronic pancreatitis
The acute condition clearly does not allow not only vegetables, but also other food, tk. The treatment of hunger is the main component of the stabilization of the attack. The refusal of food eliminates the involvement of the pancreas in the digestive act, thereby speeding up the process of abating inflammation. After 3-5 days in the diet, sparing protrudaya food in small portions, but tomatoes in the prepared form appear only with the final disappearance of the symptoms of the disease. Chronic pancreatitis makes it possible to expand the range of foods consumed, including fresh tomatoes, but necessarily ripe juicy fruit, yellow and pink varieties are preferred because of their greater sweetness. Canned, pickled tomatoes are excluded from the menu due to the fact that they use preservatives such as vinegar, citric acid, and also salt and spicy seasonings. Should be discarded and from store ketchups, tomato pastes, etc. For the winter period, you can frost in the freezer cut fruits and use them for cooking borscht, sauces.
Tomatoes in cholecystitis and pancreatitis
Often holitsistit - inflammation of the gallbladder and pancreatitis go in one bundle. The cause of their occurrence may be getting a microbial infection or stagnation of bile, leading to the formation of stones in the body, as a result - increased pressure on its walls, and sometimes their trauma. There is a casting of bile in the pancreas, which is fatal for it, tk. Affected tissues, blood vessels, there is edema, hemorrhage, and in the future and inflammation. Treatment of pathologies in this case is complex and the main emphasis is on it on a diet. It is also recommended fractional and frequent meals, avoidance of spicy, fried, canned. Tomatoes with cholecystitis and pancreatitis outside the process of exacerbation are resolved under the same conditions as in the previous paragraph.
Benefits
What effect do tomatoes have on the body and what are their benefits? Tomatoes contain serotonin - a hormone of joy, due to which are antidepressants; phytoncides, which give antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effect, cellulose improves intestinal peristalsis, prevents constipation, seeds perfectly purify blood, prevent the formation of bad cholesterol, and hence the formation of plaques in the vessels. All this is inherent in fresh fruits. But stewed tomatoes with pancreatitis are even more valuable, because when treated, the content of lycopene, a potent anti-cancer component that protects DNA mutations and the growth of malignant cells, increases. Another substance of tomato alfa-tomatin is able to kill existing tumors, including pancreas.
[Contraindications
Despite a lot of useful properties of the fetus, he also has his own contraindications. An obstacle to their consumption can become a food allergy, oxalic acid in its composition can harm people with kidney disease, joints. The pronounced choleretic effect of tomatoes becomes a taboo for patients with cholelithiasis, stones can move and clog the bile ducts.
Possible risks
The biggest risks associated with the use of tomatoes in pancreatitis are excessive absorption. Avoid possible complications if, in case of an exacerbation of the disease, they are excluded from the diet altogether, and in the stage of persistent remission, one fetus should be eaten in one meal. The main thing is to listen to your body and in case of any unpleasant symptoms from the digestive tract stop eating them. Other troubles are possible if the contraindications are ignored.