How do you manage gastritis, food and drink-wise?

velomont
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:59:00 +0000
In My Humble Opinion

So yesterday I had my first endoscopy, at 65 yrs old, and discovered that I have gastritis. I basically have no symptoms but my dad was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in his early 80s.

From what I have read online (I’ll be seeing my doc in the near future about this) I should stop or reduce consuming the following:

alcohol;
Acidic foods (eg tomatoes);
Carbonated drinks; and
Coffee.

Here’s the thing, I love beer, wine and scotch; pizza (with tomato sauce to start); sparkling water, diet coke and diet sprite (all carbonated, and just drinking water thrills me not); and coffee.

I could easily stop all alcohols as long as I could drink coffee or the pop (soda to Americans). And I can ration pizza.

So, gastritis dopers, how do you manage this?

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