4. Red Meat
If you’re a vegetarian already, you should have no problem cutting meat out of your diet and will find the pancreatic diet to be a little less of a hassle for your health. But if you’re a regular meat-eater, you don’t have to switch over to being a vegetarian when you’re following the pancreatic diet – you’ll just have to make some small changes to the type of meat you’re eating.
If you’re following a pancreatic diet, then you’ll want to avoid things like fatty, red meat cuts – and you might want to cut red meat out of your diet entirely. Eating red meat can cause an increase in your blood pressure, and it can be very heavy on the digestive system to digest meat – which can, in turn, restart the symptoms of pancreatitis.
If you’re used to eating meat in your diet and you don’t know how to replace it, then you should make an appointment with a diet expert who can guide you in the right direction and plan a proper diet that allows you to get the right level of nutrition while being safe to handle while in recovery for pancreatitis.