Gastritis with high acidity - inflammation of the mucous membranes of the stomach due to impaired function of the secretory activity of this organ.
For effective treatment of gastritis it is important to follow a well-designed diet. Diet with increased acidity of the stomach will help to relieve the unpleasant symptoms that accompany this unpleasant disease.
Therefore, first of all, when reading such a diagnosis, you should reconsider your diet and make some changes to it.
What is it?
Gastritis with high acidity is diagnosed when stomachs produce a small amount of acid to digest food. This form of the disease affects mainly older people.
The causes of increased gastric acidity are divided into external and internal. Among them we can distinguish:
- addiction to spicy, spicy, fatty foods, eating hot meals;
- smoking and alcohol abuse;
- taking certain medications( antibiotics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, etc.);
- harmful production factors;
- genetic predisposition;
- chronic infections, parasitic diseases;
- metabolic disorders in the body;
- vitamin deficiency, micronutrient deficiency, amino acids in the body;
- prolonged hypoxia of organs and tissues, leading to their dysfunction.
First time gastritis can not show itself at all and the person simply does not know about his illness. But sooner or later the symptoms will still make themselves felt:
- nausea, especially in the morning, and sometimes vomiting.
- pain in the epigastric region, and more often after eating.
- heartburn in the event that gastritis occurs against a background of increased acidity of the stomach.
The degree of severity of symptoms depends on the individual characteristics of the body and, most importantly, the intensity of the inflammatory process. Gastritis - it is necessary to treat, since a negligent attitude towards this disease is fraught with very serious stomach diseases: it can easily be transformed into a stomach ulcer or have even more unpleasant consequences right up to oncology.
Why do I need a diet?
With gastritis with high acidity, diet № 1 is prescribed. The purpose of the diet is to protect the gastrointestinal tract from increased mechanical, chemical and thermal effects, while maintaining nutritional value, as well as normalization of the motor and secretory activity of the stomach.
Diet in gastritis with high acidity also contributes to the healing of ulcers in peptic ulcer, and it is prescribed not only for gastritis with high acidity, but also for peptic ulcer.
Diet with gastritis in the acute stage
During the exacerbation of gastritis, it is necessary to eat boiled fish, poultry, skim curd, steam cutlets, crackers. Drink allowed jelly, tea with milk.
Sample menu for exacerbation of gastritis:
- Breakfast: omelet steamed, oatmeal, cracker.
- Lunch: steamed beef patties, puree from potatoes or carrots, kissel.
- Dinner: steam fish balls, carrot puree, milk.
- You can not use marinade and smoked products in any form, as well as spices and alcohol.
Fundamentals of proper nutrition
General principles of diet therapy for gastritis with high acidity:
- Do not take too hot or cold food. The temperature of food will also have to be monitored. Optimum warm up food to 15-60 degrees. Hot foods will have an irritating effect on the mucous membrane of the stomach, and cold will require a large expenditure of energy and energy for its processing.
- All gastric irritants should be excluded, namely - all fatty and fried foods;any sharp, salty and smoked foods;all "snacks": chips, seeds, nuts and so on;categorically prohibited fast food and carbonated drinks;marinades, sauces with vinegar: mayonnaise, ketchup, soy sauce;onions, garlic, spices and seasonings.
- It is advisable to limit salt intake to 10 grams per day( this amount of salt is contained in one teaspoon with a slide).
- You should learn recipes for dishes that are cooked for a couple, cooked or baked without crust.
- Food should be regular and divided: not less than 5-6 times a day, the last meal - 2-3 hours before bedtime.
What products are prohibited?
Foods that should not be consumed during this disease:
- Meat and fish of fatty varieties, in addition, all the rich meat, fish broths, borscht or soups.
- From the diet of the patient it is necessary to exclude products from baking, rye bread, and also to limit the use of ice cream and chocolate.
- Mustard, and also horseradish and all kinds of vinegars. Sharp, very salty, smoked, fried food, all kinds of sauces and seasonings.
- Marinated products, canned vegetables, mushrooms and all kinds of pickles. Do not eat eggs and dried fruits, as well as fruits that are not yet ripe.
- Such cereals as legumes, millet, barley and barley.
- Also, the diet should not include the use of harmful to the body alcohol, carbonated sweet drinks, overly strong black tea and coffee, orange juice and other citrus fruits.
All this contributes to an increase in the concentration of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
What can I eat?
Authorized products for gastric gastritis with increased acidity:
- Non-basic tea, tea with milk, cream, cocoa. Flour products. It is important that they were yesterday, well, or at least dried. Allowed a dry biscuit and cookies. Maximum two times a week you can eat buns. Cheesy cheese, ham lean and unsalted ham, salad from boiled vegetables, meat and fish, sausage doctor's, milk, children's.
- Whole milk, condensed milk, cream. Butter unsalted butter, refined vegetable oil in ready meals.
- A maximum of 2 eggs are allowed per day, and they should be cooked soft-boiled or a steam omelet can be made.
- Soups from grated cereals, vegetable purees( except cabbage) on decoction of cereals, milk soup with vermicelli. In the first dishes you can add cream, milk.
- From vegetables, potatoes, carrots, beets, cauliflower, young pumpkin and zucchini are allowed. It is necessary to limit the amount of peas and dill. Vegetables should be steamed or boiled and wiped.
- Meat - beef low-fat, veal, chicken, rabbit, turkey, low-fat fish( pike perch, carp, perch, etc.) You can cook in the form of steam cutlets, soufflé, mashed potatoes, zraz, boiled.
- From cereals it is best to give preference to manna, rice, buckwheat and oat. Porridge should be cooked on milk or water. It is best to wipe them. You can also eat vermicelli and pasta.
- Sweet varieties of ripe fruits, berries in the form of compote, jelly, mousse, jelly, baked. You can sugar, jam, marshmallow, pastille.
- Juices - raw from the allowed vegetables, sweet berries and fruits, decoction from the hips.
The menu for every day is worth considering depending on the allowed and forbidden products, but also on your own preferences.
Diet for every day: menu with increased acidity
The menu for this disease may look like this:
- Breakfast: soft-boiled egg, oatmeal in milk, fruit juice.
- Second breakfast: fruit and vegetable soufflé( apples and carrots).
- Lunch: vegetable soup, steamed chicken with rice, dried bread, compote.
- Snack: fruit soufflé, jelly, plums.
- Dinner: Polish fish, tea with milk.
- At night: dried bagel with milk.
Example №2:
- Breakfast: souffle of cottage cheese, a portion of buckwheat wiped porridge with milk and tea with lemon.
- Snack: boiled soft boiled egg.
- Lunch: soup, mashed potatoes, with carrot puree and compote.
- Dinner: steamed bits of fish, with béchamel sauce and noodles, and also tea.
- Before going to bed: 1 tbsp.milk or cream.
Even with certain restrictions, you can prepare a variety of delicious and healthy dishes, without harming your own health.