The modern pace of life does not allow most people to pay enough attention to their health. Fast food and synthetic food additives can cause stomach and digestive problems. A large number of people suffer from gastritis.
Pharmaceutical companies offer a variety of drugs, but if you don’t follow the correct diet to treat gastritis, this unpleasant disease will not go away.
Gastritis is inflammation of the stomach wall. There are many reasons for this to happen:
- There are inferior products in the diet;
- bad habits;
- pressure;
- Long-term use of certain drugs;
- Helicobacter pylori is present in the stomach.
Gastritis is very obvious, heartburn, abdominal pain and heaviness, nausea, vomiting, abnormal stool. It is difficult to get rid of this disease; a comprehensive approach is needed. A proper gastritis diet is essential to your recovery. The choice of diet depends on your type of illness. Distinguish gastritis:
- is aggressive;
- Shrinking;
- has increased or decreased gastric acidity;
- Acute and chronic forms.
Diet for acute gastritis
For this disease, gastric mucosa is inflamed, so fasting is recommended. Ideally, you should avoid eating and drinking altogether on the first day in order to rest your digestive system. You can drink some water that is always warm.
Avoid hot and cold during the worsening period.
Then, the diet should gradually include weak broth, soup based on oatmeal or rice cereal. As a beverage, it is best to provide patients with light tea, soup with rose hip and chamomile soup.
Within a few days, the diet for acute gastritis can be expanded.
Recommended food:
- Sticky soup;
- Milk, semolina, oatmeal;
- Steam omelet;
- Hard boiled eggs;
- Low-fat milk or skim milk;
- Curd souffle;
- in beverages: unsaturated candied fruit and jelly, light tea with lemon or honey.
After the symptoms of gastritis disappear, you can gradually return to your normal diet. There are many products that are not suitable for people who are prone to inflammation of the gastric mucosa, even outside of the exacerbation period. Gastritis is a recessive disease that can recur at any time.
During the remission period, it is necessary to strictly limit or completely abandon spicy, fatty and fried foods, fresh fruits and vegetables, carbonated drinks, alcohol, and coffee.
Chicory has the same effect on mucous membranes as coffee, so it is best not to eat it. After suffering from acute gastritis, this diet will help further reduce the risk of new attacks.Attention!Milk porridge or water porridge is a healthy breakfast, but avoid ready-to-eat or non-cooked cereals, they are not so useful and contain additives that are harmful to the weakened stomach. During the worsening of the disease, it is best to wipe the porridge additionally.
Diet for chronic gastritis
The diet for chronic gastritis of the stomach allows you to eat:
- Milk porridge, cooked and sparse consistency;
- Fruit puree soup or vegetable puree soup;
- Hard boiled eggs;
- Steam omelet;
- Dairy products and non-acid cheese.
- Cooked meat or fish.
What candies can be eaten for chronic gastritis? Sugar, marshmallows, honey, various jams and jams, and certain types of dried fruits (preferably non-acidic, pre-steamed) are allowed.
It is best to use pasta or rice as a side dish. You can put white bread, but not fresh, but dry or stale.
Recommended beverages include evaporated milk tea, mineral water, fruit and milk jelly.
Traditional medical advice:Freshly squeezed potato juice can help gastritis. You need to drink water on an empty stomach half an hour before breakfast worsens. It is best to use young vegetables that do not accumulate harmful substances.
The list of foods you can eat for gastritis is very extensive. Strictly prohibited foods are those that contribute to the formation of large amounts of gastric juice, namely:
- Fish and meat cooked with their own juices, and thick soup;
- Sauces, canned food, pickled or pickled vegetables;
- Fried and smoked food;
- Herbs and spices;
- Yogurt;
- Skim milk;
- Hard boiled eggs;
- Ice cream, chocolate, short sugar;
- physalis;
- Strong tea or coffee, carbonated water, alcohol, and any beverages with gas.
The list of foods that can be eaten during the exacerbation of chronic gastritis also limits rough foods that irritate the stomach. These are whole wheat breads, pastries, whole grains, mushrooms, nuts, bird or fish skins, fresh fruits and vegetables. During the exacerbation of the disease, the inflamed mucous membrane only accepts boiled mashed potatoes, and carefully machined foods and vegetable mash.
Important!Fresh carrot juice is useful when gastritis worsens. The ingredients of carrot can strengthen the gastric mucosal wall. And help regulate the metabolic process. Patients need to drink half a cup every hour 10 hours before breakfast, and then take a break. However, it only needs to be taken after consulting a doctor, because treatment with carrot juice is not suitable for patients with high acidity.
Gastritis on high stomach acid diet
In the case of this diagnosis, the diet should aim to neutralize the increased acidity, that is, to reduce the concentration of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
To this end, the patient’s menu includes:
- The soup is placed in a thin, thick soup;
- Boiled meat of dietary species (for example, rabbit or turkey, chicken breast);
- Boil river fish and seafood;
- Hard boiled eggs;
- Dairy products and goat milk;
- Green beans and zucchini are preferably processed in the form of puree after mechanical processing;
- Dry white bread or crackers;
- Side dishes: boiled pasta, buckwheat or oatmeal;
- Drinks: candied fruit and jelly made from sweet fruits, evaporated milk and milk.
It is recommended to eat pure cheese. You can steam curd omelets. During the worsening period, cheese cakes, dumplings and cheese casseroles should be added to the diet.
Traditional medical advice:Sea buckthorn oil is an effective way to treat this disease. It wraps the stomach wall and its wound healing properties are well known. Very suitable to help high acidity gastritis.
The therapeutic diet for high acidity gastritis does not include foods that stimulate the production of gastric juice-these are salty or spicy foods, smoked and fatty foods, and:
- soup and borscht, sauerkraut soup;
- Fresh bread;
- Fermented milk products;
- Candy;
- Dried fruits and unripe fruits;
- Strong tea, coffee, any aerated beverage;
- Spices and seasonings;
- Pickled or pickled bitter vegetables.
Don't forget the mechanical principle of the treatment table: the use of crude fiber products is contraindicated. In the diet of patients with gastritis, there should be no bran bread, whole grains, turnips and turnips.
Important!It is forbidden to eat fresh carrots for high acid gastritis. Gastritis also prohibits dishes including boiled or fried eggs.
Low acidity gastritis diet
On the contrary, the purpose of the gastric gastritis diet is to increase the concentration of hydrochloric acid, thereby reducing acidity and reducing gastric juice production. This diet is based on:- Sticky porridge;
- Vegetable puree;
- Cook lean meat and pasta;
- Meat and fish soup;
- Meatloaf, sausage, lean ham;
- Baked potatoes;
- dry bread;
- Tomatoes, fresh herbs, cinnamon, vegetable juice;
- jelly, tea and coffee;
- Slightly bubbling mineral water;
- Roasted fruit, mousse and juice.
It is recommended to smoke low-acid gastritis fish, and it is recommended to start eating with herring. An important condition is that the pickled herring must be soaked first.
Traditional medicine tips:Before you start eating in a simple and harmless way, you can induce gastric juice-imagine delicious foods, watch ads with appetizing foods or "Photos of "delicious" food.
Attention!Patients with low gastric acidity are most vulnerable to Helicobacter pylori attack. In such an environment, bacterial waste will reduce the acidity to a minimum.
Doctor's suggestion! Apples are the healthiest food for gastritis. For gastritis with high acidity, choose sweeter apple varieties, while apples with low acidity are suitable for sour apples. As the disease worsens, apples need to be mechanically processed-wipe or mash them.
Diet for atrophic gastritis
Atrophic gastritis is characterized by insufficient amounts of digestive enzymes. The incoming food is not completely decomposed and absorbed. List of what you can eat for this type of gastritis:
- Edible meat and low-fat boiled fish;
- Meat or fish soup with vegetables and grains;
- Sweet fruits and berries;
- Vegetables;
- Non-acid dairy products;
- Mineral water, jelly, light tea and cocoa powder.
Eggs for atrophic gastritis can be boiled or cooked with steam omelette.
Prohibited foods include fatty fish, mushroom soup, fatty meat and fatty meat, berries and fruits, carbonated drinks, chocolate, cakes, muffins, canned foods.
Diet for erosive gastritis
Erosive gastritis is accompanied by the appearance of small erosions in the stomach wall-defects of the mucous membrane. The treatment diet for erosive gastritis includes wrapped food and food that mechanically damages the mucous membrane:
- Liquid soup, preferably viscous;
- Weight loss meat;
- Steam meatloaf;
- Non-acid dairy products;
- Pasta;
- Vegetable dishes;
- Butter, cream, milk sauce;
- Candy: jelly, honey, marshmallow, marshmallow, sweet fruit and jam;
- Drinks: jelly, candied fruit, light tea.
If cooked with viscous oatmeal, rice used for erosive gastritis would be the ideal breakfast choice.
You should avoid eating harmful and aggressive foods, namely: high-fat and smoked foods, mushroom dishes, beans, canned, salted, spicy, sour fruits and berries, raw or pickled vegetables, Fresh bread and pastries, fresh fruit juice, hard liquor, alcohol.
It is not recommended to eat oily and smoked fish for erosive gastritis.
General recommendations for gastritis nutrition
- It is best to eat regularly (5-6 times a day) in an organized manner and pay attention to your diet. Your schedule should include:
- The first breakfast
- Lunch
- Lunch
- Afternoon tea
- Dinner.
- Eat small amounts, about 300 grams per meal. Avoid overeating and eat breakfast at specific times. Doctor recommended! Try not to eat liquid and solid food at the same time, treat them differently.
- Avoid temperature spikes in food intake-the irritated stomach can only accept food comfortably when it is warm.
- Simplify the menu. The fewer three meals a day in the diet, the easier it is to cope with stomach pressure.
- After each meal, you need to rest for 20 minutes, which is the minimum amount of exercise.
- The diet should contain all important vitamins and minerals, as well as a balanced amount of protein, fat and carbohydrates. According to your allowed food list, eat roasted sweet fruits, candied fruit, jelly and juice every day. During exacerbations, the diet should include enough easily digestible protein and drink at least a glass of milk.
- Don't drink water! You can drink it for 15-20 minutes after eating. Otherwise, the malfunctioning enzyme and gastric juice will be diluted with water.
- The dishes eaten for gastritis should not irritate the stomach. Therefore, it is necessary to eat slimy grains, vegetable purees and soups every day. Food needs to adapt to stomach pain as much as possible. Therefore, if the food does not have enough liquid or is not wiped, it should be mechanically processed during meals, that is, chew each piece thoroughly.
- Rice soup and porridge for gastritis is not only a suitable food, but also an effective way to obtain nutrients and remove toxins. Great choice for breakfast.Important!For the nutrition of patients with gastritis, it is best to pre-soak the rice in water before cooking.
Gastritis is difficult to treat. Only complex therapies, including taking medications prescribed by a doctor and strictly following carefully selected eating habits, can get you out of uncomfortable symptoms and prevent the consequences of gastritis such as gastric ulcers.