Erosive gastritis is often a consequence of malnutrition and an unhealthy lifestyle. To cure this disease, one drug therapy is not enough, so the doctor must prescribe a diet to the patient. With erosive gastritis, a change in eating habits is the first step to recovery.
Erosion in the stomach
Inflammation of the mucosa, accompanied by the formation of wounds on it, is an erosive type of gastritis. It may be in an acute or chronic condition. Doctors call it the most difficult to treat, so not only drug therapy is so important, but also a diet for erosive gastritis of the stomach. To defeat the ailment as quickly as possible, you should know what you can eat and what foods for a long time will have to be excluded from the diet.
Reason for occurrence
This type of disease varies greatly from the usual form of gastritis both in terms of the stomach and the symptoms that accompany it. It:
- Transition of the state of the digestive organ mucosa from inflammation and redness to the formation of erosion. If you do not diagnose the disease in time, then erosive areas can cover the entire surface of the walls of the stomach.
- Its acute condition can be caused by the ingestion of chemicals or toxins in the body, or by the fact that a person consumes poor-quality or stale food.
- The chronic course of the disease indicates internal malfunctions of the digestive organ.
- Often, the cause of erosive gastritis number 1 is infection with helicobacteria.
This ailment is treated for a long time, since for this it is necessary both to remove the cause of its appearance, and to heal all erosive sections of the mucosa. That is why it is so important to follow a diet with erosive gastritis. Substances causing irritation of its walls should not enter the organ.
Memo
Categorically you can not ignore the doctor's recommendations or self-medicate with erosive gastritis, because internal bleeding can begin. Worse if it covers the entire area of damage to the walls of the stomach, as it will be extremely difficult to stop. It is equally dangerous not to pay attention to hemorrhagic gastritis, the result of which is the formation of erosion. The symptoms of these diseases are similar.
Symptomatology
By signs, this disease is almost impossible to identify, but there are some manifestations in which you should immediately consult a doctor and undergo an examination:
- Slight pain in the upper abdomen, especially recurring. As a rule, many patients simply write off her appearance for overeating.
- Many people ignore heartburn, believing that they ate something wrong. If it repeats, this is an occasion to undergo a checkup with a doctor.
- Belching, as well as bad breath, is another sign that the digestive organ is not all right.
When this ailment is diagnosed, you can not blame only on poor-quality food. Improper nutrition, non-compliance with its regime during the day, absorption of food on the go, stress, physical activity, weak immunity, unhealthy habits - all this contributes to the formation of inflammation, and then erosion on the gastric mucosa.
In order to prevent this, you should know what food should be avoided, and what should be included in the diet menu for erosive gastritis.
What not to eat?
It may seem strange, but the list of foods that should be excluded from the diet during treatment should hang on the refrigerator in healthy people as a warning about the possibility of erosion in the stomach. At least the presence of an ailment is most often the result of their abuse.
Such familiar, and so tasty and harmful, especially in large quantities, products such as coffee, soda, alcohol, ice cream, spicy sauces and spices, muffin and chocolate, preservation and salting, sausages and smoked meats, fried and just too hot food negatively affect the mucous organ.
The diet menu for erosive gastritis of the stomach should not contain products such as legumes and mushrooms, and apple and citrus juices that are useful in small quantities with a healthy stomach cause irritation, exacerbating the condition of the walls of the organ.
The list of how to not eat, and products that are taboo, is small, and without them it is quite possible to fully and efficiently eat, so doctors recommend giving up or reducing their consumption in order to prevent stomach diseases.
What is possible?
Diet with erosive gastritis is an obligatory part of the treatment process, which in no case can be ignored. Moreover, it should be compiled taking into account the characteristics of the body. For example, with erosive gastritis with increased acidity, these will be some products, and with a reduced one, others. A diet menu and recipes for erosive gastritis are compiled by a doctor only after the patient passes all the tests and identifies allergic reactions, if any, to certain types of food.
A list of what you can eat will please even a gourmet:
- Dishes from rice, buckwheat and oatmeal have enveloping properties that have a beneficial effect on the mucous membrane.
- Low-fat milk, yoghurts and cottage cheese in small quantities do not irritate the digestive organ.
- Flaxseed, sea buckthorn or olive oils have not only a pleasant taste, but also healing properties, therefore they are often recommended as an additional therapeutic agent.
- Low-fat varieties of meat and fish, steamed or boiled.
- The stomach will be "grateful" for the consumption of persimmons, bananas and peaches.
- You can almost all vegetables, except sour or spicy, such as potatoes, eggplant, zucchini, carrots and others.
- Soft-boiled eggs.
- From flour - only white bread without any additives.
In order to have a positive result, it is important not only to follow a diet (erosive antral gastritis also applies), but also to know how to cook food, as it is difficult for a sick body to fully absorb it. To facilitate his task and not cause unpleasant symptoms, it is recommended to grind the products with a blender before cooking or eating them.
Popular recipes
Diet in the treatment of erosive gastritis is easier to "survive" if you make a menu in advance for a week in advance. This will save the patient from the uniformity in food, which often negatively affects the mental balance of a person.
By choosing recipes that are allowed for gastritis, you can eat tasty and healthy. As a rule, the results from their use are only positive. The most popular of them are:
- milk porridge;
- soups on lean meat, vegetable or fish broth with the addition of cereals;
- grated broccoli or pumpkin soups with the addition of low-fat cream;
- baked, stewed or boiled vegetables;
- mashed potatoes flavored with olive or butter;
- lean meat, steamed fish or cooked in the oven;
- fresh juices with pulp from pumpkin, carrots or peaches, diluted with mineral still water;
- jelly, but with a sweet taste;
- only boiled eggs;
- potato or cottage cheese casseroles;
- with a chronic form of gastritis, watermelon, sweet grape varieties, pears and baked apples will be useful;
- dried bread.
This list is rather a recommendation, since, for example, treatment and diet for erosive gastritis in the acute stage stipulate that food should be semi-liquid so as not to aggravate already unpleasant symptoms. It is very important to avoid any irritants to the digestive organ, be it any forbidden foods or coarse and too hot / cold foods.
Since this disease requires long-term therapy, it is easier to create a diet menu for a week with erosive gastritis, and even better for a month, trying to avoid frequent repetition of the same dishes.
Daily ration
Treatment of erosive gastritis without a diet with the help of medications alone is impossible, this should be understood by every patient. No matter how much you would like to eat a “yummy” or take a glass of alcohol, doing this is categorically not recommended, since the price of such an attitude to the disease is too high.
An approximate daily diet may be as follows:
- For breakfast, rice porridge in milk with dried or yesterday's bread and fruit jelly.
- Lunch should be light - a slice of bread with a low-fat cheese and weak sweet tea.
- Lunch is more dense, but without overeating: soup on lean meat broth with noodles, mashed potatoes with a steam cutlet (it is better to take chicken meat), bread and uzvar.
- In the afternoon, unedible cookies and milk.
- Light cottage cheese casserole dinner with weak sweet tea.
In this way, you can paint the menu for several weeks to eat varied, while sparing the stomach.
The video below will help you learn more about the diet for erosive gastritis and its results.
Diet rules
Regardless of whether hemorrhagic gastritis, erosive or with bulbitis, even the best diet will not help if you do not follow the basic rules of nutrition:
- You need to eat at least 4 times a day. It is better if the food is fractional and 6 times a day.
- A diet should be established so that food enters the stomach “on schedule”, but with intervals of no more than 3 hours between meals.
- You need to learn to chew food thoroughly or immediately grind it or in a semi-liquid state.
- It is forbidden to distract while eating watching TV, reading or a computer.
It is not difficult to follow these rules in order for the stomach to become healthy again.
Juices as extra help
In addition to a diet for a week with erosive gastritis (or for a month), it is permissible to add folk remedies to improve the patient's condition or relieve some symptoms (only with the permission of the doctor).
The most popular and often recommended doctors are freshly squeezed juices from potatoes and white cabbage. The first is useful in the treatment of erosive mucosal lesions with high acidity. It should be drunk 0.5 hour before each meal.
Cabbage juice should be introduced into the diet gradually, for 2-3 tbsp. tablespoons half an hour before meals three times a day. It is important to remember that it must be warm, otherwise the effect will be the opposite, and instead of treatment, it will irritate the mucous membrane.
The healing effects of sea buckthorn oil were known to people of the ancient world, it has not lost its relevance in the treatment of gastric insufficiency or erosive gastritis today. It relieves pain symptoms and inflammation, has a wound healing effect. Take oil three times a day for a teaspoon 20 minutes before eating.
Conclusion
Regardless of whether with a high level of acidity or with low erosive gastritis, the diet should be prescribed by a doctor and observed by the patient, then and only then there will be positive results.
Sometimes this disease can be fatal, moving from one stage, such as acute gastritis, to another (perforated ulcer). Therefore, one should not neglect any recommendations of doctors, even if the patient does not like them. Dietary nutrition, drug therapy, folk remedies, daily routine and giving up bad habits are a guarantee of a full recovery.