Diet for hyperacidity

A diet for increased stomach acidity will help alleviate unpleasant symptoms and protect the stomach lining from damage. The diet describes in detail which foods can be consumed and which ones are best limited or completely excluded from the diet.

Increased acidity or decreased acidity is the acidity of gastric juice. Acidity depends on the percentage of hydrochloric acid included in its composition. The percentage of hydrochloric acid is considered to be within the normal range of 0.4-0.5%. If this indicator deviates towards a higher or lower value, then such a change negatively affects the functioning of the digestive system and the entire gastrointestinal tract. To measure the acidity of gastric juice, probing is done, and pH-metry and other necessary tests are done based on the obtained samples of gastric juice.

If a person has increased acidity of gastric juice, then it will be accompanied by characteristic symptoms: heartburn, sour or bitter belching, periodic burning pain in the stomach, navel, constipation. In no case should you tolerate such a condition. The problem is that with increased acidity, the walls of the stomach are corroded, and specifically the mucous membrane suffers. In the future, this leads to gastritis with increased acidity and gastric ulcer.

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What is the diet for high acidity?

What diet is prescribed for increased stomach acidity? Every patient whose diagnosis is confirmed by laboratory tests should know and follow this. With increased acidity, products that do not damage the mucous membrane and reduce the production of gastric juice are recommended for consumption. Fried food increases the production of gastric juice, and boiled food does the opposite. Food should not be too cold or hot, the optimal temperature is 15-60 degrees. The amount of salt per day is 6-8 grams.

The following dishes and products are recommended for consumption:

• light vegetable or slimy cereal soups – from rice, semolina, pearl barley, oatmeal. Additionally, egg-milk mixtures can be added to soups. Soups can be prepared on the basis of baby food.
• boiled, baked and stewed meat and fish;
• steamed meat soufflé. Beef, veal, rabbit, chicken, turkey will do;
• fish soufflé. Suitable fish: navaga, cod, hake, pike;
• strained porridges from rice, semolina, pearl barley, oatmeal. Cream or butter can be added to the porridges.
• soft-boiled eggs, steamed omelette;
• dried white bread, only as you recover;
• mild and non-smoked cheeses, non-acidic cottage cheese;
• any vegetables except pickled ones;
• drinks: weak tea, berry and fruit jelly, alkaline mineral waters.

Foods to avoid:

• fatty, mushroom broths;
• smoked meats, sausages, which contain a lot of spices;
• raw vegetables, spicy vegetable snacks, marinades, pickles, onions and garlic, lemon juice;
• black bread;
• soda, alcohol.

Also, with increased acidity, you can drink milk, but not in large quantities. Phosphalugel, Maalox, and Gastal are indicated as medications.

Diet for gastritis with high acidity

Diet for gastritis with high acidity includes proper nutrition. Food should not be too hot and irritate the gastric mucosa.

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Recommended:

Of the drinks, you can drink tea and coffee, but only with milk or cream, you can have cocoa. Of the bakery products - yesterday's, slightly stale white bread, crackers, unsweetened cookies, buns.

For appetizers - mild cheese, cheese butter, diet sausages (without lard and spices, children's ones are fine), lean ham, sausage, soaked herring, smoked fish of low-fat varieties.

Of the dairy products, it is recommended to consume whole low-fat milk, buttermilk, kefir, fresh non-acidic cottage cheese, dry and condensed milk, cream, curd cheese, yogurt, and acidophilus milk.

Of the fats, it is permissible to consume butter, ghee, olive oil, and refined sunflower oil.

You can have soft-boiled eggs, steamed scrambled eggs, or steamed fried eggs.

You can have different soups based on meat, fish, mushroom broths and vegetable broth with the addition of mashed or finely chopped vegetables and mashed cereals.

You can eat dishes made from chopped meat and lean fish - beef, veal, lamb, poultry, boiled small fish.

Strained porridge from any cereals, baked puddings, boiled pasta, vermicelli.

Vegetable puree, from well-cooked vegetables (spinach, zucchini, pumpkin, tomatoes, green peas, asparagus, carrots, beets). From raw vegetables you can have green salad, green onions, dill, parsley.

You can have strawberries, raspberries, wild strawberries. Sweet boiled, mashed, baked fruits. Fruit compotes and jelly, jelly, cream.

You can use sour cream, fish, meat sauces, a little bay leaf and cinnamon as seasonings.

Forbidden:

Alcohol, fresh bread, rye bread, peas, beans, lentils, thick pasta, hard cheese, fried eggs, fatty fried meat, spicy meat products, fried potatoes, cabbage, turnips, radishes, onions, unripe fruits, unpeeled fruits, pork, mutton fat, brisket, rendered fat, sour cream, chocolate, candy, black, red pepper, horseradish, mustard and other hot spices.

Diet for gastroduodenitis with high acidity

A diet for gastroduodenitis with high acidity is prescribed by the attending physician and this is the very first step towards restoring normal function of the gastrointestinal tract.

In case of gastroduodenitis with high acidity, it is necessary to adhere to general nutritional rules:

• Chew solid foods thoroughly;
• Eat fractionally, in small portions, several times a day, but not less than 5 times;
• Food should not be too cold or too hot.

For gastroduodenitis with high acidity and peptic ulcer, diet No. 1 is recommended.

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Diet #1

Food should be steamed or boiled, mashed, if the patient has teeth, then fish and meat can be eaten in one piece. Some dishes can be baked in the oven, but moderately, without a crust. Each meal should be at the same time, at least 5 times a day.

You can use:

• Weak tea, tea with milk, cream, cocoa.
• Yesterday's white wheat bread, white rusks, dry biscuits.
• Mild cheese, lean and unsalted ham, salad of boiled vegetables, meat and fish, doctor's sausage, dairy sausage, and baby sausage.
• Whole milk, condensed milk, cream.
• Unsalted butter, refined vegetable oil in ready meals.
• Soft-boiled eggs, steamed omelette, but no more than 2 eggs per day.
• Soups from strained cereals, vegetable purees (except cabbage) on cereal broth, milk soup with vermicelli. Cream and milk can be added to first courses.
• Vegetables you can eat include potatoes, carrots, beets, cauliflower, early pumpkin and zucchini, and in limited quantities - green peas, finely chopped dill - in soups.
• From meat - lean beef, veal, chicken, rabbit, turkey, lean fish (pike perch, carp, perch, etc.) Can be cooked in the form of steamed cutlets, soufflé, mashed potatoes, zrazy, boiled in pieces.
• From cereals - semolina, rice, buckwheat, oatmeal. Porridges can be cooked in milk or water.
• Vermicelli or macaroni, finely chopped and boiled.
• Sweet varieties of ripe fruits, berries in the form of compote, jelly, mousse, jelly, baked. Sugar, jam, marshmallow, pastila are also possible.
• Juices - raw from permitted vegetables, sweet berries and fruits, rosehip decoction.

Forbidden:

• You cannot have strong meat, fish, vegetable broth, mushrooms, fried meat and fish, canned vegetables, smoked foods, marinades, canned meat and fish.
• Pastries, pies, black bread.
• Raw unpureed vegetables and fruits, ice cream.
• Kvass, black coffee, soda, chocolate.
• All spicy sauces except milk sauce.
• No white cabbage, turnips, radishes, sorrel, spinach, onions, cucumbers, or any canned vegetables.

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