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Diet with erosive gastritis
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Currently, erosive gastritis is not such a rare disease of the stomach. About what this disease is and how to treat it, we'll talk in a separate topic. And now we have to find out what principles of nutrition the patient should observe, or, more simply, what diet is recommended for erosive gastritis.
Treatment of erosive gastritis with diet
Principles of nutrition in the treatment of erosive gastritis can depend on the complexity and phase of the disease. In acute form appoint a strict dietary diet, and during the relief of symptoms, the diet becomes less strict.
In all cases, the treatment of erosive gastritis diet provides for the complete exclusion of alcoholic beverages, fried, fatty and spicy dishes, as well as non-smoking.
Diet features are also dictated by some characteristics of the disease: when the acidity of the gastric juice is increased, the action of the diet should be aimed at lowering it, and in the inflammatory process that occurs with the atrophy of the mucous tissues, the emphasis should be on stimulating the function of intact glands.
That, in the first place, it is necessary to exclude from the menu:
- stimulants of gastric juice production (alcohol, soda, sour juices, strong coffee, smoked products and sausages, legumes, most cabbage, dark bread);
- products, aggravating the inflammatory process in the stomach (fatty meat products, radish, mushrooms);
- dishes are both hot too hot and from the refrigerator - food should be either warm or at room temperature;
- fried in oil products;
- seasoning, including pepper and salt.
What is allowed to use in the treatment of erosive gastritis:
- boiled low-fat pieces of meat (chicken or rabbit), which it is desirable to serve in the shredded state;
- dietary fish varieties;
- vegetables, boiled and ground in a blender or in a meat grinder, brought to a state of mashed potatoes or cream soup;
- well-cooked cereal cereal, can be added with finely grated vegetables or fruits;
- natural jelly (not semi-finished products), fruit and berry compotes (not acidic);
- milk, home-made curd (not fatty);
- jelly.
With increasing acidity, bicarbonate-sodium mineral water (without gas) is recommended for 1 glass per hour before the main meal.
Food should be consumed in small amounts, not allowing excessive stretching of the stomach, but often to prevent the appearance of hunger (about every 3 hours).
Such restrictions in nutrition must be observed for at least 3 months. In addition to diet, the patient needs peace, sufficient sleep and a favorable family atmosphere.
Diet with acute erosive gastritis
The principles of dietary nutrition in acute erosive gastritis are based on the elimination of inflammation in the stomach tissues.
On the first day of exacerbation, it is recommended that you do not eat at all. From the second day it is allowed to gradually introduce into the menu semi-liquid, well-cooked porridges, natural jelly, boiled eggs. This is a fairly strict diet, which will gradually soften, as the acute process is cut off.
Take food should be divided, 5-6 times daily in very small portions. Dishes should be cooked primarily on steamed, as well as the maximum grind and wipe food. For several days after the normalization of the inflammatory process, you can enter into the menu a biscuit biscuit, omelettes for steaming, non-acidic and low-fat cottage cheese, vegetable soup, dietary white meat, weak tea with the addition of milk.
With acute erosive gastritis, a strict diet lasts 15-25 days. After the removal of the inflammatory reaction, the diet can be somewhat expanded, but it is impossible to refuse the diet altogether. As we said above, to maintain the results of the diet should be observed for at least 3 months. With increasing acidity, it is allowed to include vegetable oils in the menu; at a decrease - broths, a small amount of salt, lemon juice.
Under the ban throughout the diet remain spicy foods, bread and rolls, fatty and fried, sauces and pickles, lard and sausages.
Diet with chronic erosive gastritis
Nutrition and diet for chronic erosive gastritis depends on the stage of the disease. During the exacerbation, a strict diet is prescribed, the same as for an acute erosive gastritis. During the remission period, the diet is slightly enlarged, but the food still remains fractional, with small portions of food, about 6 times a day.
Every morning it is recommended to start with a glass of clean, not cold water. Food should be as sparing as possible: avoid spicy, pickled, smoked, dishes with salt and preservatives. Fruits must be eaten without skin.
Avoid butter, replace it with any vegetable.
Forget about buns, creams and alcohol.
When the acid is raised in the stomach, it is recommended:
- skimmed milk;
- white bread crumbs;
- dishes from the liver, tongue, white meat;
- low-fat fish;
- boiled eggs;
- stewed or boiled vegetables;
- vegetable soup or puree;
- rubbed garnishes from cereals (preferably rice, oatmeal or semolina);
- freshly pressed non-acidic juices, brewed in half with boiled water.
With reduced acid in the stomach are recommended:
- broths, soups;
- fermented milk products;
- boiled and stewed vegetables;
- low-fat meat, fish;
- garnishes from cereals without adding milk and butter (you can add vegetable);
- home-made jam, natural honey, dried apricots, figs, raisins (instead of dessert);
- fruit and vegetable salads;
- strong brewed tea, can be herbal (chamomile, St. John's wort, lemon balm);
- dried bread, or crackers (not from white flour).
Observe this diet should be a few months before a stable remission.
Diet with erosive reflux gastritis
Erosive reflux gastritis occurs with ingestion of the contents of the duodenum into the stomach cavity. As a result, erosions appear on the stomach mucosa, which is not enough to cure. The reasons for this - the abuse of unhealthy food, drinks, as well as overeating.
Before proceeding to treatment, it is necessary to prepare the stomach: for this purpose, fasting is prescribed for 1-2 days. During these days it is allowed to drink only mineral non-carbonated water and slightly boiled tea without sugar. During these two days, the stomach can recover and rest.
Further diet with erosive reflux gastritis will consist in frequent and small portions of food. It will be only boiled or steamed dishes, mainly vegetables, a variety of cereals and mucous soups, ground white meat.
The duration of treatment for the disease is about 1 month.
It is mandatory to exclude strong drinks (alcohol, beer, hard boiled tea and coffee), as well as salt, spices, animal fat, fried foods, marinades, vinegar, dyes, soda and sauces. In no case should you overeat.
Diet with antral erosive gastritis
Antral erosive gastritis is a type of gastritis reflux. The name "antral" indicates that there is a lesion in the greater part of the eponymous part of the stomach.
Diet with antral erosive gastritis excludes the use of fatty meat varieties (such meat is very hard to stomach), as well as acidic foods, including sour cottage cheese and sour milk.
In an acute period, fractional meals are prescribed, about 6 times a day. Take food is more appropriate in very small quantities and in a lying position.
It is forbidden: coffee, beer, spirits, smoking, rough and spicy food, semi-finished products, smoked products and soda. Excluded are salt, spices, sweet (flour, ice cream and creams), onion, garlic, horseradish and mustard, as well as mayonnaise and ketchup.
The main goal of such a diet is to stimulate the stable production of gastric enzymes and to relieve the walls of the stomach from the mechanical effects of food.
In general, nutrition in the lesion of the antral part of the stomach differs little from the diet with erosive reflux gastritis.
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Diet with erosive hemorrhagic gastritis
Erosion-hemorrhagic gastritis occurs with periodic bleeding, which is associated with damage to the vascular walls in the gastric mucosa. The complexity of the treatment of this form of erosive gastritis is that erosive surfaces can bleed right up to the moment of complete prolongation of erosion. But even after this, it is by no means possible in all cases to say with certainty that the disease has been cured.
Drug treatment of erosive-hemorrhagic gastritis will not bring an effect, if you do not change your way of life and do not revise your diet.
Diet with erosive hemorrhagic gastritis is the basis for the fastest recovery. The patient should completely refuse from fried, canned or pickled products, as well as from spices, salt and smoked products. Under the prohibition of sweets, buns, white bread, cocoa, coffee, alcoholic and carbonated drinks, sour varieties of fruits and berries.
What is the composition of the diet? The menu should include light meals that do not load the stomach:
- vegetable soup;
- oatmeal porridge, as well as buckwheat, rice and pearl barley;
- vegetable puree with vegetable oil;
- a stew of vegetables and greens;
- Fresh sour-milk products (low-fat cottage cheese, yogurt).
As a protein food, a steam or boiled fish or eggs is perfect. As for the eggs, they can be eaten raw, boiled, or made from them omelette for a couple.
To make up for the loss of blood, it is recommended to eat liver dishes, bake sweet apples.
Great attention is paid to the regime of the day and food intake. Take food 6 times a day in small portions. Products should be crushed as much as possible, and during a meal - chew well, so as not to damage the mucous stomach of the unheated pieces.
Instead of tea it is recommended to drink herbal decoction, adding to it a small amount of oak bark, St. John's wort or chamomile.
Menu diet with erosive gastritis
We present to your attention the approximate diet menu for an erosive gastritis for seven days.
Monday.
- Breakfast. 2 eggs boiled soft-boiled, a cup of slightly brewed tea with breadcrumbs.
- Snack. Banana.
- Dinner. Soup puree from celery, steamed meatballs, tea with a dogrose, cracker.
- Snack. Berry-fruit mousse.
- Dinner. A fillet of sea fish from a steamer with potatoes.
- At night a glass of yogurt.
Tuesday.
- Breakfast. A plate of oatmeal with honey, chamomile tea.
- Snack. Gallet biscuits, kissel.
- Dinner. A plate of cereal soup, fish cutlets, a cup of fruit compote, a cracker.
- Snack. Souffle of berries.
- Dinner. A plate of meat stew.
- At night - yoghurt.
Wednesday.
- Breakfast. Champagne steamed, a cup of compote.
- Snack. Sweet pear.
- Dinner. Vegetarian beetroot, chicken fillet with vegetables, dried bread, herbal tea.
- Snack. Baked apple.
- Dinner. Buckwheat garnish with liver, tea.
- At night - a glass of tea with milk.
Thursday.
- Breakfast. Steam omelet, plum jelly.
- Snack. Handful of dried apricots.
- Dinner. Portion of rice and potato soup, fish-vegetable casserole, cracker, weak tea.
- Snack. A glass of compote with dry biscuits.
- Dinner. Vegetarian pilaf, a piece of dried bread, herbal tea.
- Before going to bed - a glass of ryazhenka.
Friday.
- Breakfast. Curd and berry pudding with jam, tea.
- Snack. Berry mix with yoghurt.
- Dinner. A plate of tomato soup, a steam cutlet with pearl barley, a glass of compote of prunes, a slice of dried bread.
- Snack. Curd with low-fat yogurt.
- Dinner. A piece of boiled fish with vegetables, cracker.
- Before going to bed - a glass of yogurt.
Saturday.
- Breakfast. Lazy vareniki with low-fat yogurt, a cup of weak tea.
- Snack. Fruit souffle.
- Dinner. Pearl soup, carrot-beet cutlets with boiled fish, a glass of compote, crackers.
- Snack. A handful of any dry fruit.
- Dinner. Fish-vegetable casserole, weak tea, a piece of dried bread.
- At night - yoghurt.
Sunday.
- Breakfast. Rice pudding, compote.
- Snack. Sweet apple.
- Dinner. Beetroot, chicken cutlet steamed, boiled potatoes, weak tea, cracker.
- Snack. Galette cookies.
- Dinner. Portion of vegetable garnish, boiled fish, a piece of dried bread, a cup of herbal tea.
- Before going to bed - tea with milk.
Diet recipes for erosive gastritis
Here are a few recipes to diversify the weekly menu described above.
- Apple pudding for breakfast
We will need: half a glass of apple juice, 5 yolks, 300 ml of milk, 100 g of sugar, 25 g of gelatin.
In apple juice, add gelatin and leave for half an hour. Meanwhile, whisk the yolks, put milk on the stove, bring to a boil. Add sugar, mix. After that, we add juice to the milk with gelatin, and finally - yolks. Continuously stirring, cook on low heat for 15 minutes. Fire switch off, pour a lot of molds and put in the refrigerator to freeze for 8 hours. If the pudding is cooked in the evening, then an unusual and healthy breakfast will be ready by morning.
- Meatballs with milk sauce
We will need: 0.5 kg of chicken, bulb, 3 slices of bread, 200 ml of milk, 2 tablespoons of flour, 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil, greens.
In mincemeat grind a small onion and bread.
Separately, prepare the sauce: 1 tbsp. Spoon the flour into a frying pan, add the vegetable oil, mix, pour in the milk, cook for about 10 minutes.
From minced meat we make meatballs and put them into sauce, stew until ready (~ 35 minutes). When serving, sprinkle with herbs.
- Vegetable Couscous
We will need: sunflower oil 3 tablespoons, 200 g pumpkin pulp, one sweet Bulgarian pepper, 1 small zucchini, 250 ml of water, 150 g of couscous, 1 small onion.
Squash, pepper and pulp pumpkin wash, pepper scrub in the middle. Vegetables along with onions are minced with small cubes and simmer on low heat. In a separate saucepan boil 250 ml of water, we will fill with boiling water couscous, we add art. A spoonful of sunflower oil and let it swell for about 5 minutes. Then we combine couscous and vegetables. Simple and tasty.
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Reviews about a diet with an erosive gastritis
According to the common opinion of all patients suffering from various forms of erosive gastritis, nutrition is an important component of the treatment of the disease. Although, of course, the best effect can be achieved only by applying in the complex several types of treatment: drug therapy, diet therapy and alternative methods - phytotherapy. However, it is necessary to speak about all these methods with your attending physician: correction of the treatment scheme is possible in each specific case.
With treatment measures aimed at eliminating gastritis, properly selected food and diet can play a decisive role in epithelization of erosion on mucous tissues.
The fact that the diet with erosive gastritis does help, is universally proven. Moreover, everyone knows that often the wrong diet becomes the cause of gastritis. Therefore, adjusting the diet plus a healthy lifestyle will necessarily lead to the disappearance of unpleasant symptoms and speedy recovery.