What food should I eat for chronic antral gastritis

Chronic antral gastritis is a type of gastritis. A bad stomach means bad eating habits. Good food can promote stomach absorption and enhance gastric motility. However, bad food is most likely to make people feel nauseous and retching. Food is one of the daily energies necessary for the human body. Each of us has our own unique insights into diet. However, irritating food still deeply hurts our stomach. So what food should we eat for chronic antral gastritis?

The principle of dietary treatment for antral gastritis is to adjust the various functions of the stomach and develop good eating and living habits. Chew slowly when eating to allow food to be fully mixed with digestive juices.

The diet should be light and less irritating. Do not eat too much at dinner and go to bed after the food is digested. Otherwise, it will increase stomach discomfort. In your daily diet, try to eat light, less greasy, and less high-fat foods, such as fatty meat, cream, and fried foods, which can delay stomach emptying and easily increase the feeling of fullness in the abdomen. You should reduce the intake of irritating foods, such as chili peppers, onions, curry, pepper, mustard powder, strong coffee, etc., which are not conducive to the recovery of gastric mucosal inflammation and should not be consumed.

For those with reduced gastric acid secretion, such as atrophic gastritis, thick broth, chicken soup and other delicious foods can be given to stimulate gastric acid secretion and promote appetite. For those with hyperacid gastritis (excessive gastric acid secretion), broth, chicken soup and excessive delicious foods should be prohibited. The meat can be cooked and the soup can be removed before cooking. The food should be cooked finely, minced, soft and rotten. The cooking methods mostly include steaming, boiling, braising, stewing and simmering.

Pay attention to eating nutritious foods, eat more high-protein foods and high-vitamin foods, ensure the body's adequate nutrients, prevent anemia and malnutrition. For those with anemia and malnutrition, add foods rich in protein and heme iron to the diet, such as lean meat, chicken, fish, liver, kidneys and other offal. Foods high in vitamins include fresh vegetables and fruits with dark colors, such as green leafy vegetables, tomatoes, eggplants, red dates, etc.

Pay attention to the acid-base balance of your diet. When gastric acid secretion is excessive, you can drink milk, soy milk, eat steamed bread or bread to neutralize stomach acid. When gastric acid secretion decreases, you can use thick broth, chicken soup, sour fruit or juice to stimulate the secretion of gastric juice and help digestion. Avoid foods that cause abdominal bloating and contain high fiber content, such as beans, soy products, sucrose, celery, leeks, etc.

When suffering from atrophic gastritis, it is advisable to drink yogurt, because the phospholipids in yogurt will be tightly adsorbed on the stomach wall, protecting the gastric mucosa and repairing the injured gastric mucosa. The lactic acid and glucuronic acid produced by the metabolism of lactose, a unique ingredient in yogurt, can increase the acidity in the stomach, inhibit harmful bacteria from decomposing protein to produce toxins, and at the same time protect the stomach from erosion by toxins, which is beneficial to the treatment and recovery of gastritis.

General principles: non-irritating, low-fiber, easy to digest, and nutritious food; eat small meals frequently; relax and stay happy while eating.

1. Eliminate the cause. Thoroughly treat acute gastritis; quit smoking and drinking; avoid irritating foods and drugs; treat chronic oral infections, eat regularly, etc.

2. Eat more soft food. Eat food that is easy to digest, minimize stimulation to the gastric mucosa, chew slowly, let the teeth grind the food completely so that the food can be fully mixed with gastric juice. Avoid eating raw, cold, sour, spicy and hard food. Eat small meals frequently, and cook coarse grains carefully. Patients with stomach problems can eat 5 meals. The demonstration example is as follows:

Breakfast: 50g rice porridge, 50g flower rolls, 1 boiled egg, 1 piece of fermented bean curd.

Snack 1: 300g milk, 10g sugar, 15g biscuits.

Lunch: 100g of soft rice, 100g of fish fillet, spinach and egg soup.

Snack 2: 300g soy milk, 10g sugar, 25g cake.

Dinner: 50g rice porridge, 50g steamed cake, 150g minced meat and mashed potatoes.

3. If there is malnutrition or anemia, give more eggs, fresh vegetables, animal liver, kidney, etc.

4. People with excessive gastric acid should not eat concentrated broth and acidic foods to avoid causing more gastric acid secretion. Instead, they can eat milk, vegetable puree, starch, bread, etc. The taste should be light and less salty.

5. People with low stomach acid can be given thick broth or gravy to stimulate the secretion of stomach acid, help digestion and promote appetite.

After reading the above introduction about what foods to eat for chronic antral gastritis, I think everyone should have some understanding. The choice of food has a good improvement and therapeutic effect on the disease. We should control our diet and take good care of our stomach. Eat on time and don’t skip meals, which is very harmful to your stomach. We must develop good living habits and pay attention to maintaining a healthy body.