chronic gastritis

stephanie8625
stephanie8625 Posts: 119 Member
edited October 21 in Food and Nutrition
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:



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  • MoonyRose
    MoonyRose Posts: 52
    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
    4myhealth77 Posts: 77 Member
    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
    MoonyRose Posts: 52
    sorry it posted the same thing twice dunno how to delete
  • MoonyRose
    MoonyRose Posts: 52
    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
    bridgeo74 Posts: 191 Member
    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
    Meikmeika Posts: 108 Member
    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
    Jayne19099 Posts: 149 Member
    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
    rowanwood Posts: 509 Member
    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
    xtinydancerxx Posts: 13 Member
    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
    mrsswisspea Posts: 51 Member
    edited April 2015
    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.
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