Berries with gastritis with high acidity

Fresh fruits and berries, as sources of natural vitamins, are always welcome on our table. It would seem, eat and enjoy. But is always juicy sour-sweet fruit beneficial? Whether it is possible to regale berries at a gastritis with the raised or increased acidity?

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Indications

Gastritis with high acidity manifests itself as a series of unpleasant symptoms, the main one is heartburn. It arises because the gastric juice enters the esophagus, causing a burning sensation on its mucous membrane. Discomfort intensifies the acidic eructation that appears when the stomach is full.

The increase in acidity is referred to when the specific gravity of hydrochloric acid in the contents of the stomach equals or exceeds 0.5%. Such an indicator requires treatment, and not only medication: an important place in the treatment of gastritis is diet.

With acid gastritis, food is shown that does not stimulate an increase in the pH of the stomach: carrots, beets, potatoes, cauliflower, and other vegetables, cooked and mashed in puree. Under the ban - pickled, salted, pickled vegetables, all preserves, as well as mushrooms, turnips, onions, cucumbers, cabbage, sorrel and spinach. From the diet is also excluded piquant, fatty, fried foods. The diet provides regular meals, without starvation and overeating.

Berries are usually called sweet, but often it's just a metaphor. In fact, most berries contain a lot of acids, giving them a pleasant sweet and sour, and sometimes even sour taste. Does it need a stomach, and so suffering from an overabundance of acid?

It turns out that it is not necessary to completely reject berries for gastritis with high acidity. Just pick the berries and eat properly. They should be:

• not acidic;
• ripe;
• good quality.

To eat should:

• not on an empty stomach;
• in moderation;
• in breaks between the main meal;
• thoroughly chewing.

Fortunately, the choice of these fruits, to any taste, is sufficient, especially in the summer. At other times, fruit and berry juices, pastilles, dried fruits, marshmallows, homemade jams and jams of berries are allowed.

After a berry snack, it is undesirable to lie down for about an hour, so as not to provoke heartburn from ingestion of gastric juice into the esophagus.

In a diet with increased acidity, it is important to control food temperature and saturation with vitamin C. Food should not have thermal and chemical irritants. This applies to berries with gastritis with increased acidity: they should be eaten grated, without skin and pits, neutral temperature. Of course, choose only sweet fruits; it is allowed to mix two different types of berries.

The most useful are berries-fruit jellies, compotes, puddings and other desserts.

Benefits

In hyperacid gastritis appoint food that does not allow mechanical irritation of the gastric mucosa. Such a menu is known as diet number 1. What place is assigned to the diet of berries with gastritis with high acidity?

The real benefits of berries in gastritis with increased acidity significantly exceed the possible harm. Fresh berries contain a variety of vitamins, organic acids, essential oils, microelements. All these substances in reasonable doses are necessary for each organism.

You can talk about harm, if you abuse berries. It can manifest itself with such consequences:

• excessive doses adversely affect the digestive processes;
• the abundance of organic acids corrodes the tooth enamel.

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What can and what can not?

To avoid the negative effect, fruits and berries with gastritis should be pre-cooked: wipe, bake, cook, make mashed potatoes, kissels, mousses, jellies, compotes, jams.

Watermelon

Watermelon refers to the few berries that are allowed for any gastritis - provided that they are ripe and grown with the use of environmentally friendly technologies. Juice of chestnut fruits saturates the body with natural sugar, cleanses of slag and excess liquid. Fiber stimulates the intestines, "sweeping out" of it accumulations of food residues.

However, doctors warn against using excessive portions of this berry, unlike all others, and recommend using ... Watermelon crusts. That is, consider watermelon as a berry in gastritis with high acidity is not a food, but a medicine.

• The healing agent is prepared in this way: the dried crust is ground and poured with boiling water (10 tablespoons per 1 liter of water). They drink warmly on an empty stomach, a glass at a time, half an hour before breakfast.

Watermelon is contraindicated in kidney stones, diabetes, pancreatitis, prostate adenoma, colitis, postoperative adhesions.

Cranberry

Cranberry is one of the most popular berries; it attracts attention thanks to unique properties that are still being studied by pharmacists and nutritionists. The berries of cranberries contain:

• antioxidants;
• glucose and fructose;
• organic acids;
• pectins;
• tanning components;
• vitamins;
• microelements.

Cranberries and products of its processing are used as vitamin, antipyretic, diuretic, antibacterial, quenching thirst, fortifying agent. In the old days, cranberries were used in the fight against scurvy, and today they note the positive effect of cranberries when treating with antibiotics: a berry or juice from it enhances the effectiveness of these medicines.

Among other organic acids in cranberries contains benzoic, which has the qualities of a natural preservative. Thanks to this, berries do not require special treatment. Another feature of cranberries - the optimal balance and assimilation of useful components.

Unfortunately, such a useful berry with gastritis with high acidity is contraindicated. Cranberries are also not recommended for bowel ulcers and liver problems. Negative effect of cranberries and tooth enamel, although the gums acting firmer.

Dates

Dates refer to heavy food. They are also called "bread of the desert". These are useful fruits, because they contain proteins, fats, carbohydrates, oils, pectins, a half dozen minerals and vitamins. Dates are consumed in dried form, used in compotes, baked goods, salads and other culinary recipes. In its pure form, dried fruit is recommended to eat 15 minutes before meals, while a single portion should not exceed 50 g.

Concerning the use of these berries with gastritis, there are conflicting opinions.

• So, some experts categorically oppose this product in the diet of people with acute and chronic forms of gastritis, because the abundance of plant fibers in these fruits provokes exacerbation of diseases.
• Others consider it permissible to use exclusively dried dates for all gastritis.
• Another recommendation: date berries for gastritis with high acidity are allowed in the menu for dessert, in limited quantities.

This disagreement indicates one thing: each patient should be dealt with individually, how to treat the dates, and act in accordance with the doctor's recommendations and well-being. It should be borne in mind that dates contain a lot of sugar. Therefore, people with diabetes and overweight are not recommended - as well as figs, grapes, bananas, sweet plums.

Kalina

The bitter taste of Kalina makes it not the most favorite berry, but does not detract from the medicinal properties of these fruits. In the recognition of the kalina, the deposit of useful properties is shared by both alternative healers and professional medics. And not only fruits are considered medicinal, but also the bark of the Kalina which possesses healing, styptic, and spasmolytic properties.

A bitter berry is rich in sugar, vitamin C, a number of organic acids and antioxidants.

• Kalina acts as an anticonvulsant, choleretic, anti-inflammatory agent.
• Infusion of fruits calms nerves and cough.
• Berry strengthens the heart and blood vessels, removes excess fluid from the body.
• There is information that vesicles are effective in the prevention of cancer.

Juice and fruit juice from berries with gastritis with high acidity, as in peptic ulcer, is considered an effective alternative.

Fresh and recycled viburnum is not useful to everyone. It can be harmful in pregnancy and for patients with gout and kidneys, as well as for violations of blood coagulability, threatening thrombosis.

Raspberries

Raspberry is a popular berry, long used for food and medicinal purposes. Contains cellulose, alcohols, essential oils, coumarin, a complex of vitamins and minerals. Used fresh, dried, frozen, as an ingredient of fruit salads, jam, jelly, marmalade.

• Taste and medicinal qualities of berries are successfully used by pharmacists, confectioners, winemakers and producers of tea drinks. Alternative medicine considers her the number one medicine for colds, fever, joint pain. Red, yellow, black varieties of raspberries are useful in hypertension, anemia, atherosclerosis, anorexia, gynecological and other problems.

The minuses include allergenicity, the presence of purines and acids in raspberries. It is the latter property which makes the miracle-berry in gastritis with high acidity unacceptable, as well as with certain kidney diseases and gout.

In addition, raspberries contain small bones that are almost impossible to remove from the fetus and which can irritate the stomach. This is another of the contraindications that make the "sweet berry" with gastritis with high acidity undesirable.

Feel the crimson taste of patients with gastritis can, using raspberry juice, which, like cherry juice, lowers the secretion of the stomach. The main thing is that it's fresh, not a shop liquid with lemon and other acids, harmful with acid gastritis.

Lingonberry

Cowberry is called a magic berry - first of all, due to its unique composition. Pectin, carotene, vitamins A, B, E, C, flavonoids and phytoncides, fructose and microelements make the berry unusually useful, and the aroma and taste are an excellent natural delicacy. For hundreds of years people used cranberries for making morsels, jams, kissels, because heat treatment does not destroy most useful qualities of bright red berries.

Lingonberry is well absorbed by the body, with constant use it:

• improves skin and hair condition;
• promotes weight loss;
• strengthens the body's defenses;
• relieves depression;
• cures of tuberculosis, anemia, gastritis.

Cowberry is recommended for diabetes, puffiness, for the prevention of heart attacks. Cowberry juice has antiseptic properties, which is used in the treatment of colds and certain pathologies of the digestive tract. In combination with honey it serves to strengthen immunity.

Cowberry juice and berries with gastritis with high acidity can cause harm, so such patients are not recommended for their use, especially if there are ulcers. Contraindicated in cranberries and hypotonia, because it is able to lower blood pressure.

Hawthorn

Hawthorn is favorably distinguished among other berries by the large size of bright red fruits, clusters adorning the bushes of wild plants. In autumn they are collected by people who are good in alternative medicine. After all, tincture of hawthorn is one of the most popular pharmacy products "from the heart", and broths from fruits are an excellent home remedy.

The peculiarity of hawthorn is that it perfectly combines with medicinal herbs, other fruits (for example, dog rose), honey.

Fruits are rich in such substances:

• vitamins A, C, betacarotene;
• potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese;
• pectins.

The action of the hawthorn is manifold; it removes excess fluid along with toxins, lowers blood pressure, sugar and cholesterol levels, improves attention and memory, treats inflammation and colds.

Low caloric content and rich chemical composition make hawthorn interesting for those who want to lose weight, and the combination with other components can be used as an additional remedy against disorders in the activity of the heart, nervous system and blood pressure. His berries with gastritis with high acidity also have a curative effect. The prescription of the medicine is simple: the berries are thrown into boiling water and boiled as a compote. With pain in the abdomen, it is recommended to eat together with the tea cooked fruits.

Contraindications

The patient with gastritis has to give up some of the pleasures, including the use of fresh gifts of nature. So, you can not eat unprocessed fruits and berries with gastritis with high acidity: cherry, cherry, sea buckthorn, apples, apricots and peaches on an empty stomach, pomegranates, oranges, lemons, strawberries, raspberries, currants, grapes, especially with peel. The ban is caused by the fact that acidic berries can provoke an aggravation of the chronic process.

Moreover, there are contraindications in the aggravation of any pathology of digestive organs: fruits and berries in kind can not be eaten with such a condition. Some fruits are allowed only in the form of puree, kissel, pastille, baked or cooked desserts.

During the remission of the disease, dried fruit is allowed - but not dates, dried apricots, raisins in raw form. Of them you can brew compotes and drink them in a warm form, but more benefits, according to dieticians, such a drink will bring with hypoacid gastritis.

Fruits containing a lot of sugar (grapes, dates, bananas, figs) are contraindicated for diabetics and people with excess weight.

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Possible risks

Harm from berries with gastritis with high acidity occurs when you use acidic fresh fruits that increase acidity and irritate the gastric mucosa.

To avoid the negative effect, fruits and berries with gastritis with high acidity should be pre-cooked: wipe, bake, cook, mash, jelly, mousse, jelly, compotes.

When the disease worsens, raw berries and juices can not be eaten. Outside exacerbations can: they are useful for the work of the intestine.

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Berries with gastritis with high acidity have a place in the menu - if the patient has no other digestive problems. But if the body reacts inadequately to the use of berries, then the patient needs to undergo a survey in order to establish the cause of such a reaction. You may need additional advice from a specialist regarding treatment or nutrition. In order not to deny yourself the use of such wonderful products as fruits and berries.