1. Eat small, frequent meals at regular intervals to avoid overeating. If the condition is not serious, you can adopt a semi-liquid diet with less residue, 5 meals a day. When entering the recovery period, you can eat soft rice with less residue, preferably 4 meals a day. If the caloric intake is insufficient, you can supplement it by adding dry and thin food, such as 1 cup of milk, 2 biscuits, 1 cup of malted milk, 1 boiled egg, etc.
2. Prevent anemia or malnutrition. Patients with atrophic gastritis are often accompanied by malnutrition anemia, and the calories and various nutrients in the diet must be sufficient and balanced. For those with anemia or malnutrition, add foods rich in protein and heme iron to their diet, such as lean meat, fish, chicken, animal liver and other offal, and pay attention to the supplement of vitamin C and B vitamins, especially vitamin B12 and folic acid. Appropriately increase the intake of fresh vegetables and fruits, such as tomatoes, eggplants, red dates, and green leafy vegetables, to provide sufficient vitamin C and help iron absorption.
3. Regulate gastric acid secretion. Patients with gastritis should eat meat with short and soft muscle fibers, such as fish, shrimp, chicken, tender beef, lean pork, etc. Patients with atrophic gastritis have low gastric acid secretion and should be given fish soup, chicken soup, broth, mushroom soup and other nitrogen-rich soups, rice porridge, sour foods, fragrant condiments and appropriate amounts of sugar. Vinegar food. Patients with chronic superficial gastritis with high acidity, on the contrary, should avoid eating puree soups rich in nitrogen extracts, and should use cooked fish, shrimp, chicken, lean meat, etc. to cook dishes , such as steamed fish pieces, braised fish fillets, braised chicken breast balls, minced meat custard, etc., to reduce stomach irritation. At the same time, drink more milk, soy milk, toast, fresh vegetables, fruits, etc. to neutralize gastric acid.
4. Food choices should be light, less greasy, less irritating, and easy to digest. Greasy foods such as fatty meats, butter, and fried foods will delay gastric emptying and easily cause bloating. Spirits, peppers, onions, curry, pepper, mustard powder, strong coffee, etc. can irritate the gastric mucosa and should not be consumed in excess. At the same time, avoid eating foods that are too hard, too sour, too spicy, too salty, too cold, too hot, and too rough. Such as cold meat and vegetable dishes, hot and sour cabbage, sweet and sour lotus root slices, etc. The staple food can be thin noodles, noodles, steamed buns, flower rolls, steamed cakes, steamed buns, wontons, bread, rice, etc. Avoid eating unfermented pasta, such as homemade pancakes, pies, dumplings, etc., as well as whole grains and indigestible foods, such as corn tortillas, glutinous rice, rice cakes, etc. These foods stay in the stomach for a long time and will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. .
5. The food should be fine, broken, soft and rotten. Steaming, boiling, stewing, braising, simmering, etc. are often used in cooking methods to protect the gastric mucosa. Eat more vegetables and fruits that do not contain crude fiber, such as cucumbers, tomatoes (peeled and seeded), peeled tender eggplants, winter melon, young cabbage, spinach leaves, potatoes, carrots, etc. When cooking, it should be cut into thin strips, small dices, and thin slices, and cooked thoroughly. Some can be made into puree, such as mashed potatoes, which is beneficial to digestion. Choose ripe fruits, and remove the peels and seeds when eating them, such as bananas, apples, pears, etc., and develop the habit of chewing slowly.