Gastritis Support Group

Gastritis is a medical term for inflammation of the lining of the stomach. It means that white blood cells move into the wall of the stomach as a response to some type of injury. Gastritis has many underlying causes, from infection with the bacterium H. pylori, bile reflux, or excessive consumption of alcohol or certain foods or drugs like aspirin.

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Appetite but know you can't eat

jennielouises
jennielouises
When I first came down with this bout of Gastritis in September I had no appetite and there are still the odd couple of days where this happens now. But most of the time I really fancy food but know I can't eat it as it will upset my stomach. Especially it being Christmas I am walking past all the yummy cakes and chocolates and getting depressed because I can't eat them!

Also there seems to be no pattern to this. I have just eaten mash potato and chicken because its nice and bland but my stomach is burning (not as bad as it has done before but I can feel it). Wish it was easy to just eliminate foods like beef and tomato and then other foods would be ok!

One other thing, has anyone taken Ginger tablets for this? I took one yesterday and one today. Although my stomach now feels a bit better, I did find that the ginger made it burn a bit. Could that be too spicy for my tummy? Wondering if I should try slipper elm bark instead?
deleted_user
deleted_user
I find that eating bland foods little and often help my symptoms n I sum times mix foods in with my diet some days I can eat them and other days I can't trial n error x
soretum
soretum
Sadly we can all react to so many things and not always the same things. Ginger is good for the stomach but that doesn't mean for you just now its not an issue. I've been taking slippery elm capsules for two years now and in time they do help. You could maybe try making tea using ginger root. Put a small amount in hot water and let it steep for 10minutes. Maybe try a weak cup first and see. It might be less concentrated than the tablets.
Having gone through two Christmases with this I know how hard the temptations can be. It will get easier but try and remain strong.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Hello.Have you tried an elimination diet?you may want to go on a very strict diet and keep a food diary to see what foods help you and what makes it worse.The other way to go would be just going on a juice diet(but obviously not citric fruit.)try a vegetable juice diet.cabbage juice is known to be good for ulcers and the stomach in general.
you mix apples and cucumber etc with the cabbage juice raw.
(yes I tried it and it nearly killed me)but then I'm a big softy other people swear by it though and they actually did research on it on prisoners and it worked.I have also tried natural Greek fat free yogurt(total)mix that with some almond milk and some Blueberries and that's good for your tum and tastes yum!...