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What foods to avoid if you have gastritis?

I am a 20 year old male. I was diagnosed with gastritis. What foods to avoid if you have gastritis?

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Current approach to treatment of gastritis is to diagnose and treat bacteria Compilinactet pillori with antibiotics. Food restrictions are more applicable in a cases of acute gastritis.
Nothing specifically needs to be avoided. There are many types of gastritis but most of it is nonspecific. Food does not affect gastritis to any significant extent.
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Hot spicy ethnic food, alcohol and tobacco are no good on this situation.
The main foods that are recommended to avoid with gastritis include spicy foods, greasy foods, fried foods, caffeine and alcohol. Eating a diet with plenty of protein, non-processed foods and lots of water as well as following the treatment guidelines from your specialist can help with healing and improve your symptoms.
The most important thing is to avoid acidic foods, increase caffeine and carbonated beverages, tomato based products and eating late at night, within a couple of hours of bedtime. In addition if you smoke or drink alcohol, these cause increase acidity and decrease inability of the flap between esophagus and stomach from opening and closing appropriately. Weight loss helps as well to decrease gastritis, as does not wearing tight belts and closing. If you have issues with weight loss and swallowing, you must see a doctor. And if this is recurrent and runs in family, you may want to check for a bacteria that causes gastritis. Lastly, do not overuse over the counter medications for gastritis and if symptoms have been going on over 10 days stop these and see a physician. It is not safe to take these long term.