chronic gastritis

stephanie8625

Has anyone ever had chronic gastritis? I was just recently diagnosed with it, and will be a lifetime thing that I will need to live with.
Any ideas that work for you? What food can you eat and not eat that will or will not aggravate it?
I have been looking online and reading about it, but thought I would see if anyone here can help me out.
It has been a long 7 weeks......not too happy with it, but it is a life style change that I need to work on and would appreciate any help or advise !! :sick:

MoonyRose

I suffer from excess acid problems as a result of medication I used to be on and am on and off Lanaprozole, when it's bad I get gastritis but it's not chronic. I avoid salty food i.e Macdonald's chips, crisps and dairy makes it a lot worse so I've switched to mainly soya products with a few dairy bits. Look up an peptic ulcer diet? I had a peptic ulcer and those help? Feel free to add to see what I eat. xx

4myhealth77

I used to have gastritis attacks frequently when I had any kind of high fat or fried foods. I cut them out after realizing that was what was aggravating it. Since then, I have had only one and that was a ten year period.

MoonyRose

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MoonyRose

Same with the fatty foods, but with me it was only on consecutive days of fatty foods that it would swell. Top advice though: make sure if your symptoms worsen you go straight to the doctor. I had gastritus for weeks without treatment (I was really busy) , and some how I ended up with a swollen intestine 10kg of weight loss and if you shook me I'd rattle with the amount of medication I had to take. Don't mean to be gross but my excess acid can ruin my whole system (it aint pretty), so it's important to stay on top of it! xx

bridgeo74

Consecutive days of bad eating ignites my gastritis, but seeing I do not do that anymore, I have not had problems with it for a while. Unfortunately for me, sometimes stress does it to me. Haven't had a bad flare up since 2010 right before my husband deployed (stress)!!!

Meikmeika

I was diagnosed with acute gastritis Monday morning, after being admitted to the ER with horrific abdominal pain Sunday evening.

So far I've found the following online:

Non-acidic fruits
cooked vegetables
dark leafy greens
probiotics
low-fat meats
low-far diary (if tolerable)

Jayne19099

I was diagnosed with mild chronic gastritis two weeks ago. I avoid dairy, high fat, and spice foods. I like mint tea a lot, and super ripe fruit. I also avoid uncooked vegetables.

rowanwood

Best advice, it that what works for one person may not work for you. I have the weirdest triggers -- oranges and uncooked garlic and onions (cooked is fine for onions and semi fine for garlic), eggs with too much cheese -- but only together. But hot sauce? No problem. You have to experiment.

xtinydancerxx

As for what foods I can and can't eat, I CANT FIGURE IT OUT. It's like some horrible puzzle I start to connect but can't figure out how to complete.

I've found bland foods and many meals a day (all light, nothing heavy) is the only way to keep the pain away. It's weird because although there are general trends it really seems like individual triggers.

mrsswisspea

I feel for you, gastritis can be hell. I was diagnosed with acute gastritis while travelling in Southeast Asia late last year. As I was in Southeast Asia, I tried to avoid the hospital, but after five days of horrific pain, I had to go to the ER in Bangkok. Luckily, the Omeprazole helped massively and kept it "acute". It's four months later, and obviously my condition was not chronic, but I still sometimes get mild stomach cramps that are becoming less and less frequent. I'm still not entirely sure what caused my acute gastritis, but at the time I was travelling (obviously); drinking lots of coffee and having about four bananas a day, which is the only major changes in my diet at the time (I was in Southeast Asia for four months). Once I could eat again, I cut down on caffeine and potassium-rich foods and I think it's helped to reduce my stomach cramps, but I'm not a doctor. When it was really bad and I needed to eat something, I had a bit of plain white rice with fish sauce, it was the only thing I could eat without making it worse.