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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Mastic gum

Anita-Mo
Anita-Mo
I had mild gastritis and I took mastic gum for a week and it has helped resolved the burning and stinging sensations. For those of you interested in taking it, it can be bought from health shops and from amazon. I would advise those with chronic gastritis to start off gently with one tablet a day and see how your symptoms are. It will take a couple of days to kick in. It is supposed to help with inflammation and helps heal peptic ulcers in 2 weeks. some people take more than the recommended dose of one. I started off with one to see if I had an allergy and after a few days i increased to two morning and night on a empty stomach and after four days I went to 3 times daily spacing them out. Mine resolved after 10 days.

If you have any querys do not hesitate to contact me.

I did not take it with any other tablets or ppi's.
Anita-Mo
Anita-Mo
Oh those of you who have gastroparesis or atrophic gastritis not recommended but they said I drink cabbage juice to try to reduce inflammation.
lalov1
lalov1
I want to try an all natural approach. Do you still use this? What do you mean by resolved?
Anita-Mo
Anita-Mo
yes was only 10 days in with my treatment then I had to go onto antibiotics so I stopped but the antibiotics have given me a bad stomach so I have stopped them on gone back onto the mastic gum as is supposed to be good for gastrointestinal disorders. resolved meaning the stinging pain went away completely by 10 days but it's best to take it at a reduced quantity so I have gone back to 2 a day for which I will reduce less and less for at least a month and then review. also I take I glut amine for healing twice a day mixed in with manuka honey as I have lost a lot of weight.
Anita-Mo
Anita-Mo
also try to eat a really bland diet, rice , fish, chicken, dark green vegetables , oatmeal , potatoes. no high sugary items, chocolate, acidic foods which will aggravate it. i also drink kefir which is a probiotic drink.. the bloating comes from inflammation which needs
to be brought under control .
lalov1
lalov1
Did you have pylori?
Anita-Mo
Anita-Mo
no mild fundal gastritis caused by reflux and a hiatal hernia. do you have h pylori ? dr Marcus ettinger has a natural protocol to eradicate h pylori .. the hiatal hernia caused me horrendous blating during the initial phase and not digesting food very well is also another side effect.
lalov1
lalov1
I may have pylori. I took the antibiotics, but haven't been re-tested yet to see if it is eradicated. I've heard good things about l-glutamine and picked some up not too long ago.
lalov1
lalov1
How much L Gutamine are you taking?
Anita-Mo
Anita-Mo
Just two teaspoons according to instructions morning and night with honey. It has helped a lot as I have lost over a stone in weight as I was just normal to start with.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I tried my first capsules of mastic gum this morning. So far I have not experienced any side effects of taking it. I did belch a bit afterwards and it tasted like pine.

The burning has subsided just a bit, but it is still there. I have taken my PPI along with it and will be taking a probiotic as well. I was tested positive for H. Pylori and am trying this treatment to see if it will eradicate the bacteria.

Does anyone else have any experience with mastic gum? Any help would be much appreciated. Especially if you have taken it with h. pylori and if it has proven to be successful for you in eradicating it. TIA!
lalov1
lalov1
I don't think it will work if you're using a PPI.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19879118

I went through treatment and still have gastritis. You might want to use the antibiotics and PPI.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Hmm. Thanks for that info. The PPI i take is Aciphex and they did tests with Pantoprazole (Prevacid). I have the treatment.. I suppose I can try it.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Probiotics are essential when taking antibiotics (yoghurt is not enough)... Jon Barron has good info on this - also check out therapeutic doses of probiotics.

GOOD LUCK and please let us know how you get on...
deleted_user
deleted_user
I have read that it is good to take probiotics about an hour after taking the antibiotics? I'm not sure if this is true or not.. or if I should take it along with taking my antibiotics in the AM. Ugh. I really hate this. Lol.
lalov1
lalov1
They will be not effective if you take them with the antibiotics. You should take them a couple hours after.