Symptoms and Signs of ACUTE Pancreatitis

Symptomsof acute pancreatitis include (1):

• Alcoholic related acute pancreatitis usually occurs after some years of excessive daily drinking
• Gallstones related acute pancreatitis occurs mostly in old people with history of gallstones or upper right abdominal pain after the meal. This type of pancreatitis is often present with jaundice
• Constant, dull, deep, often severe  pain in the upper middle abdomen (below the breastbone), that may radiate to the sides or to the back; may worsen when lying down. Rarely the pain may be on the right side or in lower abdomen (other causes of right side abdominal pain and left side abdominal pain)
• Nausea, vomiting
• Fever

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Normal bowel movement color can be any shade of brown, or some other colors, but not white.

Bowel movement has its color due to the bile which originally green color has been changed into the brown during its passage through the bowel. 

Causes of White Bowel Movement

When less than normal or no bile is excreted from the liver into the bowel (cholestasis), excreted stool will be pale, clay, gray, or white. Someone can describe it as a light color, but this is not bright yellow bowel movement, and also not mucus in the bowel movement that is jelly-like and translucent. Main causes of white bowel movement are:

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