Fear of eating – Postprandial pain

Topic: Fear of eating – Postprandial pain

Speaker: Illhami Benli, Consultant and Head of the Department of Vascular Surgery / Vascular Medicine at the Ilm-Kreis-Kliniken Arnstadt-Ilmenau

Time: Friday, 6 November 2026, 3.00 pm

Venue: TU Ilmenau, Faraday Lecture Theatre, Weimarer Straße 32, entrance via Prof. Schmidt-Straße

Admission: 5 euros

When eating becomes a burden, there is often more to it than a harmless indigestion. Postprandial pain – that is, abdominal pain after eating – can be a sign of what specialists call mesenteric claudication, a circulatory disorder affecting the blood vessels of the intestines. Those affected feel extremely unsettled by this; they often even develop a genuine fear of eating. Particularly serious: these symptoms can be early warning signs of so-called mesenteric ischaemia, an acute circulatory disorder that ranks among the most dangerous abdominal emergencies, in which intestinal tissue can die off within a short space of time – a condition that becomes life-threatening if left untreated.

In his lecture as part of the TU Ilmenau Citizens’ Campus, Illhami Benli, Consultant in the Department of Vascular Surgery / Vascular Medicine at the Ilm-Kreis-Kliniken Arnstadt-Ilmenau, how such warning signs arise, which modern diagnostic procedures enable early detection, and what treatment options – ranging from medication to endovascular procedures – are available. Benli aims to raise awareness amongst his audience of the urgency of these conditions and to highlight ways in which those affected can regain confidence in their diet.

Ursula Nirsberger
, TU Ilmenau, Bürgercampus
, 03677 69-4794
,buergercampus@tu-ilmenau.de