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Pancreas News

Drinkers In Danger Of Being Eaten By Their Own Enzymes

Thursday March 24, 1994
HEAVY drinking can do the strangest things to a man. Apart from causing peculiar behavioural changes and a range at degenerative diseases, it can also make his pancreas eat itself. This can be extraordinarily painful. The pancreas is a small gland which produces powerful enzymes used in th