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.
Hi everyone,
I've had this ongoing since mid august. It started with a stomach virus and kept going around from intense nausea to being able to eat foods again back to intense nausea. I had no idea what it was until I saw a GI doc a couple weeks ago who gave me an endoscopy. It seems to be gastritis and I was just eating foods that cause it to flare up. I have the follow up with the GI Tuesday to get a treatment plan set up. In the meantime, I was wondering what some of you drink to stay hydrated during a bad gastritis attack. Bad attack for me is unable to eat any solids and only on small sipfuls of liquid every 2-3 minutes. I've tried pedialyte (works, but too expensive), water (led to imbalance of electrolytes and ER trip), broth (not readily available), coconut water (great, but not when I have a bad attack like this), and found that gatorade works best. I do want to try something other than gatorade because the citric acid in it upsets my stomach a little more than I like, plus all the additives and sugars aren't that great for me. I feel like I'm going to rot my teeth out. XD Also I'd prefer if it's inexpensive as I'm on a tight budget.
Thanks for your suggestions.
I've had this ongoing since mid august. It started with a stomach virus and kept going around from intense nausea to being able to eat foods again back to intense nausea. I had no idea what it was until I saw a GI doc a couple weeks ago who gave me an endoscopy. It seems to be gastritis and I was just eating foods that cause it to flare up. I have the follow up with the GI Tuesday to get a treatment plan set up. In the meantime, I was wondering what some of you drink to stay hydrated during a bad gastritis attack. Bad attack for me is unable to eat any solids and only on small sipfuls of liquid every 2-3 minutes. I've tried pedialyte (works, but too expensive), water (led to imbalance of electrolytes and ER trip), broth (not readily available), coconut water (great, but not when I have a bad attack like this), and found that gatorade works best. I do want to try something other than gatorade because the citric acid in it upsets my stomach a little more than I like, plus all the additives and sugars aren't that great for me. I feel like I'm going to rot my teeth out. XD Also I'd prefer if it's inexpensive as I'm on a tight budget.
Thanks for your suggestions.
Have you started an elimination diet to try to figure out your trigger foods? That really helped with my gastritis and other digestive stuff.
So far, I've got a nice list of what sets me off and what are safe foods. Bland and boring, but enough to live off of. I'm just having trouble reintroducing solids this time. I've been worried about my weight loss so I think I try food too soon and that sets off another attack and vicious cycle begins again.
I will check out the walmart pedialyte, thanks.