Indigestion

I have a problem, which is loss of appetite and not digesting food naturally. This situation started about two months ago. The problem is that I can only eat one meal a day. Please help me, and may God reward you very much.

Abdul Ilah Al-Baqmi

It appears from the description of the case that there is a slow transmission of food within the stomach and intestines. Dear reader, there are several reasons for such cases, so the doctor needs to answer the question knowing some information so that he can give the appropriate answer. It is related to the patient’s age, weight, social habits and the nature of his work. Are there any other symptoms Or complain about any chronic diseases such as diabetes, nerve or joint diseases, and does the patient take any kind of medicine or herbs.

Pancreas cancer

What are the symptoms of pancreatic cancer and what are the possible treatment solutions? Please advise me, as the treating doctors mentioned to me about the possibility of curing this disease? Gratefully.

s. Al-Qahtani

When pancreatic cancer arises, the only symptom is often a non-specific feeling of discomfort in the abdomen, and another symptom is pain that ravages the abdomen and radiates from the abdomen to the back, and it improves as the patient bends his body forward, as the patient’s appetite weakens and his weight decreases.

Also, most pancreatic tumors affect the head of the pancreas. When they grow larger, these tumors can block the exit of bile from the liver and block the bile ducts leading to the intestines. This makes bilirubin (a yellow-orange pigment of bile pigments) accumulate in the body, followed by the appearance of jaundice and itching. It has brown urine and very light clay-colored stools. At the time when jaundice appears, the tumor often has grown in size significantly.

In the case of tumors that consist of hormone-producing cells, the symptoms depend on the hormone being produced in large quantities. In most of these cases, this hormone is insulin, which leads to a high production of insulin, which leads to low levels of sugar in the blood, a tendency to watery, attachment, shivering and sweating.

If the doctor suspects the presence of pancreatic cancer, he will conduct a number of tests (or examinations) including blood tests to detect tumor markers (proteins produced by tumors that circulate in the bloodstream). Although ultrasound and CT scans are the mainstays in identifying pancreatic cancer and determining the extent of the tumor, both methods can miss the diagnosis of some cancers.

Other tests include intravenous biliary and pancreatic ductoscopy, which also allows a sample to be taken from the tumor for examination and removal of obstruction. Doctors sometimes use computerized tomography to guide a fine needle until it reaches the pancreas to collect some cells that are examined under a microscope to determine whether they are cancerous or not. Accurately take the sample.

The only treatment for pancreatic cancer is to remove all or part of the pancreas. It is only feasible in the few patients diagnosed before the cancer has spread. The possibility of recurrence is high and is more likely if cancer cells are found in nearby lymph nodes or if the tumor has spread to nearby tissues.

Radiation therapy and chemotherapy may be used to shrink tumors or to treat them after resection surgery, but these treatments do not extend life. Inserting rigid tubes (stents) into the bile duct using the ERCP method mentioned above can substantially improve the quality of life without surgery.