The inflammation of the stomach lining is bothersome and painful.
In addition to drug therapy, a diet for gastritis is of great importance: the "right" foods do not irritate the walls, promote epithelial regeneration and maintain remission of the disease.
What to eat for gastritis
There are many reasons why gastritis develops:
- Incorrect diet, with a predominance of dry, spicy and hot foods;
- Unbalanced diets;
- Abuse of alcoholic beverages, soda;
- Taking certain medicines that irritate the stomach lining
Before talking about what you can eat with gastritis and what you should refuse, you need to learn some basic postulates of the diet:
- Meals should be regular. You should not take long breaks between meals, skipped lunch or afternoon tea for no reason should it be replaced with a "double" dinner;
- For gastritis, fractional meals are shown - in small portions at short intervals;
- If possible, do not mix solid and liquid foods; the first courses must be separated from the second courses. Dishes with a liquid or puree-like consistency are the most digestible;
- The temperature of the food should not be too high or too low, hot food is absorbed optimally and does not irritate the stomach;
- The use of table salt should be kept to a minimum and seasonings and spices should be abandoned altogether;
- The diet should be rich in vitamins, but fiber for patients with gastritis is too heavy a food;
- The dishes are cooked boiled (steamed) or stewed;
What can you eat with gastritis of the stomach
With high acidity
The purpose of the diet for gastritis with increased secretion of hydrochloric acid is to lower acidity, neutralize it with the help of stomach contents.
- Vegetable soups with pasta, rice. The vegetables are well cooked and put in a blender;
- Milk soups with boiled pasta or cereals;
- Yesterday's (dried) white bread made from wheat flour;
- Meat - lean beef, lamb and pork, chicken, turkey, skinless rabbit, tendons. The meat is baked or steamed, minced cutlets, soufflé, meatballs, beef stroganoff (boiled) are allowed;
- Milk and non-acid products from it - kefir, yogurt, cream, sour cream, cottage cheese (cheesecake, casseroles), varieties of mild cheeses;
- Chicken, duck, quail eggs - boiled soft-boiled or in the form of an omelette;
- Porridge: semolina, buckwheat, rice, oats, water or milk, viscous, enveloping, cereals must be boiled and rubbed through a sieve;
- Vegetables - boiled or stewed, mashed. Pumpkin, squash, potatoes, beets, carrots, cauliflower, rarely tomatoes and peas are allowed;
- Fruit - neutral or sweet, bananas, peeled sweet apples (cooked), pears, ripe persimmons. Berries - only sweet, in the form of jelly, compotes, fruit drinks, marshmallows, jam, jam;
- As cold snacks, boiled tongue, liver pate, fish jelly, red caviar, milk sausage and doctor's sausage, forshmak, unsalted ham, are allowed (in moderation! );
- It is recommended to drink sweet compotes, weakly brewed tea (with milk, cream), weak coffee with milk, cocoa, jelly;
- Unsalted butter, ghee and refined vegetable oil are allowed.
Low acidity
When making a diagnosis, the goal is to stimulate the production of hydrochloric acid. Unlike the previous diet, in this case you can:
- Cook soups with steep fish and meat broths;
- Eat acidic fruits and vegetables;
- Include salty canned foods in your diet;
- Give preference to fermented milk products;
- Drink sour juices: orange, grapefruit, tomato, grape;
- Drink still mineral water
What not to eat with gastritis
With high acidity
- Soups cooked in meat and fish broth, mushroom soups, cabbage soup, borscht, okroshka;
- Fresh bread, pastries, pastries, puff pastry, rye bread and products made from rye flour;
- Fatty meat, poultry, smoked products from them;
- Fatty and salty fish, canned fish;
- Sour milk products, spicy cheese;
- Fried and hard-boiled eggs;
- Millet, barley, pearl barley, corn porridge;
- Pasta, except noodles;
- Legumes, cabbage, turnips, turnips, sorrel, cucumbers, spinach, onions; any vegetables in the form of pickles, pickled, pickled, canned; mushrooms;
- Sour fruits - melon, pomegranate, grapes, peaches, citrus, kiwi. Small berry seeds irritate the intestinal walls, so they are consumed only in processed form. Dried fruit is not recommended;
- Chocolate, ice cream;
- Sauces, mustard, pepper, horseradish. Limited to vanillin, cinnamon, dill, parsley, garlic;
- Nuts: peanuts, hazelnuts;
- Drink carbonated drinks, strong coffee, kvass bread.
Low acidity
Foods that cause fermentation in the stomach are prohibited:
- milk, cream, sour cream;
- sweets, cakes;
- chocolate;
- radish, garlic.
The opinion about the use of watermelon is controversial: a ripe sweet watermelon will not hurt, but you should not abuse it, since the kidneys are further burdened, the risk of exacerbation of urolithiasis increases.
Daily menu for gastritis
Despite strict prohibitions, it is possible (and necessary! ) to eat healthy and tasty even during an exacerbation of gastritis. The recipes are varied, the main thing is to show your imagination.
Sample menu for the day:
- Breakfast. Buckwheat milk porridge (mashed), scrambled eggs, tea with milk;
- Second breakfast. Kissel, unleavened biscuits;
- Lunch. Fish soup with vegetables (in the second broth), beetroot caviar, steamed chicken meatballs, tea with milk;
- Afternoon snack. Curd casserole with sour cream.
- Dinner. Vermicelli with fish cake, rosehip broth;
- Curdled milk for the night.
In case of gastritis with low acidity, the menu should be diversified with fruit, fermented milk products.
Strict adherence to the diet (table number 1) is required during the period of exacerbation and the first two weeks after stopping the attack.
Then you can gradually introduce other foods into the diet, carefully monitoring your well-being.