Gastritis in pregnancy -- how can I change my diet to help?

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My doc thinks I may have this. Symptoms are bad stomach pains after eating, lots of heartburn, needing the loo a lot and feeling really sick. I tend to have stomach ache all night long, too, even though we eat our evening meal early (around 5 p.m.).

She prescribed Gaviscon, which I'm going to start taking today. She didn't give me any advice on diet though. What should I be avoiding? I cook from scratch, so I don't eat much processed stuff. I do like baking though, so perhaps I should cut that out?

I'm 23 weeks along and have a toddler DD to run around after all day long.

Gastritis can have triggers ie fizzy drinks, fatty foods so I would be eating as normal but take a note of what you've ate before it flares up iykwim. My mum suffers with it and pastry is her worst trigger.

I've just been diagnosed with this and have been advised to cut out spicy foods and rich/fatty foods.
I started off getting trapped wind pains from eating a lot of spicy soups/casseroles (all home made) then on Sunday had some brie and that evening and Monday evening had the worst stomach cramps i've ever felt.
Now on the blandest of foods :(
Can you try a week of eating bland stuff then slowly introduce other things to see what effect they have? (Cut out cheese/fatty diary products/sugar/spices etc).

The only thing which helped my gastritis pre-pregnancy was omeprazole. My GP took me off it when I became pregnant.

I'm now 28 weeks and the pain/heartburn has become unbearable again, so I went back to a different GP this week. She immediately prescribed me omeprazole again, and was surprised that the previous GP had taken me off them at all.

I wish I could help with diet etc, but honestly nothing helped me at all. I tried cutting out all the usual 'triggers' (spicy food, fatty food, eating too late, fizzy drinks etc), tried extra pillows, milkshakes, Rennies, everything Google and MN suggested! But I didn't find that anything made a difference. Apart from omeprazole, of course.

Yes I'm taking that & scared to stop, didn't know you could take it in pregnancy, good to know!

I had to see 3 different GPs at the same surgery before someone would prescribe it for me! But the dr I saw on Monday looked it up in her BNF and even showed me the page where it said something like 'pregnancy -- no known complications'. She said it was good enough for her, so it was good enough for me.

Thanks for all the replies. I'm in Germany, so I wasn't sure about the different medications I could take. But my friend had it last pregnancy and says she took omeprazole, too. I've got some Frube-like tubes of Gaviscon from the pharmacy, and if that doesn't help, I'll try to get a prescription for omeprazole on Monday. (Doc is on holiday until then and I don't fancy my chances of getting an appt with a different one tomorrow.)

I don't drink fizzy drinks or fatty foods (unless cake counts), which the pharmacist also told me to avoid (along with anything acidic). I think I will try Dinah's bland diet and see if anything makes a difference. I had an apple this afternoon, which was in hindsight a rather dumb idea. It hurt so much it made me think I was having contractions.

I drink one cup of coffee every morning. The caffeine is bound to be bad for it, isn't it?

Did anyone find drinking milk or eating yoghurt helped at all?

I have this, both pre pregnancy and currently during this one (#2). What helped me most was drinking yogurt, I lived in Russia at one point and they were amazing for it. I've had them in Germany too. Also not eating too much fatty or spicy food. Mine is more flare ups than constant so only had a problem with caffeine during flare ups. Luckily for my addiction!

Sympathy from me. Weirdly I am fine on spicy foods but I can't tolerate apples, fruit juices etc. or caffeine. You just have to work out your triggers.

Try fat free Greek yoghurt just had some and so far so good! I've read milk isn't great unless it's skimmed, if an apple set you off it sounds like acidity & maybe sugars are to be avoided, today I've had leek & potato soup & was ok with that (home made, no extra salt) also had a roast sweet potato & some white fish (ick!)

As far as I can tell, everything is a trigger

The pains stopped by about 3 a.m. this morning, so I could finally get some sleep. Thanks, DD, for coming in at 5.

I had half a glass of milk at about 7 p.m., which was not good. I've just had a glass of water, and the pains have started again. I'm going to have to go to the doctor today and get some of that omeprazole.