Pancreatitis Diet: My Diet for Pancreatitis

If you have Acute Pancreatitis or pancreas pain you should NOT eat anything, nothing by mouth except water - period. Once your pain has resolved you should be on a liquid diet for pancreatitis for the first several days (72 - 96 hours) and those liquids should be ONLY vegetable or fruit in origin, juice is good. Low sodium V8 juice is an excellent choice as far as store bought juice is concerned. If you own a juicer that is even better beacuse you can make your own quality juice, just make sure the vegetables and/or fruits are organic if at all posiible.

NO broth unless it is totally vegetable in origin. In other words NO beef or chicken broth and I don't care if the can label says 100% fat free or you make it yourself - NO beef, pork, lamb, turkey or chicken broth. No snake or mystery meat broth - NO meat broth period.

Once you have been on a vegan liquid pancreatitis diet for at least 72 hours (a week is preferable), resting your pancreas and you have experienced NO pain or symptoms such as nausea while drinking juice 3 - 5 times per day it may then be appropriate to try some solid food such as a half cup of brown rice and vegetables (strictly VEGAN with NO OIL used in cooking) to test how solid food reacts with your pancreas. If you have no symptoms on a half cup of rice and vegetables after several hours try another half cup.

Continue with a strictly VEGAN diet for pancreatitis until you begin to feel well and then you can explore other food possibilities that are on my potentially safe list. If at anytime you experience pain due to eating solid food you should again fast (no food) for 72 - 96 hours consuming only water to keep hydrated. Then ...

Start again with juice 3 - 5 times daily and work up to solid food like before. Completely VEGAN with NO OIL used in preparation.

This is extremely important: When I first started to feel better (approximately one year after my diagnosis) I had started drinking grapefruit juice, you can read more about how I happened to start drinking grapefruit juice on my blog. Anyway ...

My Acute Pancreattits episodes stopped.

I attributed the recovery to my prescription medication called robinul and my strict diet for pancreatitis but it turns out the grapefruit juice may have played a huge role in my recovery since I have found research that states certain ingredients, called polyphenol flavonoids, which occur within the juice, pulp, and seeds stop Acute Pancreatitis.

I take supplements in conjunction with my diet for pancreatitis, but, when I noticed my Acute Pancreatitis episodes stopped I was only drinking the juice, adhering to my pancreatitis diet and taking a multi-vitamin-mineral. To learn about the supplements I take that have completely healed my pancreas and allow me to live pain free visit: Supplements For Pancreatitis

If you have sustained damage from acute pancreatitis you are almost certain to suffer from chronic pancreatitis and that is where my diet for chronic pancreatitis comes into play and is extremely important in regards to your longevity and suffering. You can eat whatever you choose, it's your life, but, if you would like to become pain free or at least have a lot less pain and lessen the risk of more acute pancreatitis episodes and further damage, even death then you may want to get serious and learn how to eat what is somewhat safe and avoid acute pancreatitis triggers like the black plague.

The list of what you can't eat is LONG and the list of what is normally safe, in my years of testing and experience, is short. My blog covers my pancreatitis diet in several posts and you can start here with: Pancreatitis Diet - Diet For Chronic Pancreatitis and this one is important as well: Acute Pancreatitis Triggers: Keep a Food Diary

Just be careful of what you read online in regards to what is safe and not safe for you to eat. I have seen some of the most damaging information, (from doctors, medical centers and people who claim to have chronic pancreatitis), that it is amazing that most people who have chronic pancreatitis even survive a year or two when following the typical advice I see online. On the other hand ...

I have survived now for over 32 years (since my diagnosis) and have been acute pancreatitis free (except for one episode in 2005 or 2006) for about 29 of those years and pretty much pain free as well for almost 17 years now. So ...

You can choose to believe and follow the thoughts and opinions of someone who is still in pain or some other person who has never even experienced the pain and agony of acute or chronic pancreatitis OR ...

You can believe me and what I share with you that I can almost always back up with scientific evidence in one way or another along with 32+ plus years of trial and error. They (patients in pain and the medical folks) are either in pain still, dead, or brain dead while I am pain free so who might be right?