Gastritis literary means inflammation of the stomach. Gastritis is a disease with stomach lining disorder. The stomach lining inflammation can be caused by many factors; Such as too much consume alcohol, infection of bacteria, or chronic usage of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and sometimes it happen in people who ever experience a stomach surgery.

The symptoms of this disease such as, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, burning feeling in the upper gastrointestinal tract, vomiting with blood in your vomit and it’s also can be examine with endoscopy, how bad the gastritis is. The bleeding of the stomach lining indicates that the inflammation is become badly and it is need more medical treatment.

* Nutritional impact

For the people with gastritis, almost of them experience an eating disorder. Such as fullness feeling though they eat only a few amount of foods, nausea and vomiting while or after eating, appetite disorder or have less desire to eat something. It is be caused they might experience uncomfortable feeling to abdominal pain during the digestion. Furthermore chronic gastritis will badly impact in their nutritional status. People with inflammation of the stomach lining will have discomfort feelings while or after eating. They become less desire to eat, and their nutrition intake will less than their needed.

The inflammation of the stomach lining also limits the people with gastritis to eat some kind of food. Such as food with contains high protein, over acid taste food, food contains rough fiber like some kind of vegetables, over salty foods, or another kind of food, drugs and beverages that might stimulate over acidity of stomach. Limited foods consumption in long time leads them to be under nutrition.

Anemia used to be experienced also by people with gastritis. Less protein contained foods, such as meat that also contains great quantities of Iron in long time will lead anemia. Meat contains Heme-Iron that effectively absorbed by the body better than NonHeme-Iron usually contained in food from plants. But meat will hardly digested in the stomach, and need hard work of the stomach and optimum acidity (pH=1) of the stomach, that it might badly impact to the inflammations. The bleeding of the stomach lining will also worsen the anemia.

In gastritis that caused by bacterial infections such as Helicobacter pillory, the doctor may give you a antibiotic treatment to reduce the infections, but excessive antibiotic usage will also kill the good bacteria in lower gastrointestinal tract or usually called as probiotic. The good bacteria also help us to forming some kind of vitamin or other substances that we need.


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