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Drinks for gastritis with hyperacidity
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
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Not all drinks can be consumed with gastritis with high acidity. Among those permitted are berry or fruit juices, weakly brewed coffee with milk or cocoa, tea with cream or milk, and also rosehip decoction (it helps stabilize the acidity level).
Coffee
With increased acidity, drinking coffee is strictly prohibited. Only in some cases is it allowed to drink weakly brewed coffee after a meal, which must be diluted with milk. You can only drink a small cup.
Milk
Milk, especially homemade milk, is recommended to be diluted for gastritis (a good option would be to add it to tea). For this disease, it is very useful to drink goat's milk - among dairy products, it is considered the most useful. With its help, you can neutralize the increased level of hydrochloric acid and heal the irritation that has appeared on the mucous membrane. It also helps to eliminate one of the symptoms of gastritis - flatulence.
It is recommended to undergo a course of therapy with goat milk, the duration of which is 21 days. In this case, you need to drink 1 glass of raw product on an empty stomach in the morning and evening. You should drink slowly, in small sips. During the day, you should also drink 2 more glasses of the drink.
Green tea
Green tea is recommended for drinking in the presence of such a pathological condition, as it helps to heal damage to the mucous membrane, relieves inflammation. But in order to obtain these healing properties, the drink must be prepared in the right way. In case of increased acidity, tea should be prepared according to this recipe: take 3 spoons of tea and pour boiled, slightly cooled water over them, then leave the drink to brew for 30 minutes. The finished tea should be kept in a steam bath for about 1 hour. It should be drunk in small portions (10-20 ml) no more than 5 times a day.
Kissel
Recipe for making berry jelly. You need to take 1.5 cups of water and currants, as well as 1 spoon of starch and sugar. The currants need to be washed, and then squeezed out of the juice. The pulp remaining after this procedure is boiled and filtered. The starch must be diluted in water (cold). Then mix all these mixtures and cook over low heat.
Currants can be replaced with other berries (blueberries, strawberries, cranberries or cherries) or fruits (apples). Kissel from dried apricots is also prepared according to the same principle.
Carrot jelly – peel and grate 2-3 vegetables, then cook them in boiling water (about 0.5 cups). Next, pour warm milk into the broth, and when the mixture boils, add 0.5 spoons of starch.
Compote
Dried fruit compote – rinse the ingredients and pour them into boiling water. Cook for about 20-25 minutes, then cool and drink.
Plum-apple compote – wash the ingredients and cut into slices. Then cook in boiling water for a maximum of 5 minutes (for 5 plums and 1 large apple, 4 cups of water will be enough).
Honey water
If the level of stomach acidity increases, it is necessary to take honey diluted in warm water (1 glass) three times a day (in a dosage of 30 g before breakfast and dinner and 40 g before lunch). The drink should be drunk 1-2 hours before meals.
Herbal teas
If you have problems with increased acidity, it is useful to drink herbal teas based on mint, plantain, St. John's wort, and in addition to this, Asian yarrow, marsh cudweed and caraway.
A properly prepared herbal mixture helps to remove the inflammatory process and promote the body's recovery. Such mixtures should have pain-relieving, healing and enveloping properties.
Drinks such as anise decoction or fireweed have an effective effect. They stabilize the stomach, prevent complications (ulcers, erosions), and dyspepsia.
Anise drink normalizes the function of the digestive system, removes spasms in the intestines and stomach, thus eliminating permanent pain. The most useful property of anise tea for gastritis is that it fights Helicobacter pylori, thereby accelerating the recovery process.
To make anise tea, you need 10 g of leaves of this herb - they are poured with boiling water (0.5 l) and left to infuse in a thermos. The finished tea is drunk during the day, 0.5 cups (no more than 4 times a day).
Ivan tea helps to speed up regeneration processes, relieve pain and prevent nausea in this case.
To make this drink, you need to use the following recipe: take 50 g of grass and pour water (750 ml) over them. Boil the tea, then leave it in a thermos for at least 1 hour, then strain. Drink the drink before meals - this significantly relieves pain, thereby contributing to a painless process of eating.