Diet For Helicobacter Pylori - What Can And Cannot Be Eaten?

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Diet for Helicobacter pylori

Diet in the treatment of Helicobacter pylori must be followed without fail. If you do not follow the treatment menu, you will not be able to achieve recovery, and the disease will progress. The neglected form of the disease will lead to the fact that a person will develop hyperacid gastritis, or a stomach ulcer. Also, the formation of a cancerous tumor cannot be ruled out.

Nutrition requires adherence to certain principles that must be strictly adhered to.

• It is forbidden to eat in large portions or too often.
• Foods that are too hot or too cold should not be eaten. The food should be warm.
• Dishes should not irritate the intestines. To do this, they should be grinded or pounded to a puree state. Solid food should not be on the menu.

Content:

• What can you eat with Helicobacter pylori
• What not to eat with Helicobacter pylori
• An indicative menu for three days with Helicobacter pylori

What can you eat with Helicobacter pylori

The doctor should inform the patient about what can be eaten with Helicobacter pylori. Moreover, a person himself will notice that when he eats something "forbidden", he has discomfort in the abdomen, pain, heartburn, nausea and even vomiting may appear. To avoid the progression of the disease, food for Helicobacter pylori must be correctly selected.

The list of what you can eat with Helicobacter pylori includes the following foods and dishes:

• Dairy products that are low in fat. You can eat yogurt, cottage cheese, milk, fermented baked milk, kefir, yogurt. You need to limit hard cheeses on the menu, since they always have a high percentage of fat content.
• Soups and cereals. If the products were ground during cooking or are present on the table in liquid form, then the stomach and intestines will quickly cope with their processing. Moreover, porridge envelops the walls of the stomach, reducing the intensity of painful sensations. It is necessary to ensure that soups and broths are not too rich and fatty. Porridge must also be boiled thoroughly.

• Kissels and compotes. It is imperative to drink these drinks, but they should be prepared on the basis of fresh berries or fruits. You cannot purchase and prepare powder jelly that contains dyes and flavors, as well as other chemical components. It is harmful to the stomach, which is affected by pathogenic flora. Homemade jelly and compotes, on the contrary, have a positive effect on his condition, and also saturate the body with vitamins.
• Foods that have been steamed. If steamed food will contain a minimum amount of fat and a maximum amount of vitamins. Steamed dishes do not irritate a sore stomach, so you can eat them every day. In addition, the person will not suffer from radical changes in the menu. If he likes fried cutlets, then they can be replaced with steamed meatballs. The taste of the fish does not suffer if you refuse to fry it in a large amount of oil and steam it.
• Eggs. The chicken egg is a source of vitamins, minerals and amino acids. This is an incredibly valuable product that must not be forgotten. However, frying eggs with Helicobacter pylori is not recommended. They can only be boiled. Eggs should not be drunk raw, especially when there is no certainty about the quality of the product.

• Dried bread. Baking and confectionery products are contraindicated in Helicobacter pylori. However, giving up bread is sometimes very difficult. During the treatment, you can eat dried bread. Crackers can be used as an independent dish or together with other products. It is good to eat crackers with tea. Preference should be given to white bread, since black bread is made from wholemeal flour. A sick stomach can react negatively to such food. In turn, rusks made from wheat flour will not cause irritation.
• Water that does not contain gases. You should refrain from consuming sweet soda during a diet. Such drinks can harm even a healthy stomach. People with pathologies of the digestive tract should generally stop using them. It is recommended to drink at least 1.5 liters of clean water per day. You can also drink fruit and vegetable juices, but not from the store, but prepared at home.

If there are doubts about what to eat with Helicobacter pylori is possible and what is not, then you need to consult a specialist about this.

What not to eat with Helicobacter pylori

The list of things that cannot be eaten with Helicobacter pylori should always be at hand with the patient. This will allow you not to violate the prohibitions and not harm your own health.

So, the menu should not contain the following products:

• Any fatty food is prohibited. It is difficult for the body to digest, it is digested for a long time and poorly, it loads a sick stomach. The body spends a large amount of acids and enzymes on the decomposition of fatty foods. When pathological changes caused by Helicobacter pylori are present in the stomach, it will not be easy for him to cope with fatty foods. Patients may notice that after consuming such products, they develop dyspeptic disorders.
• Mushrooms. They are heavy foods that are difficult to digest. In this regard, mushrooms can be compared to fried fatty meat. Moreover, the method of processing mushrooms does not affect the quality of their digestion. Therefore, for the duration of treatment, they should be abandoned.
• Preserved products. It will be necessary to remove all canned food, salinity, marinades from the menu. These foods contain acetic acid, which irritates the stomach. Moreover, the ban is imposed not only on factory canned food, but also on homemade products. You can not eat dishes containing a large amount of seasonings and spices.
• Smoked products. When contaminated with Helicobacter pylori, smoked meats must be completely abandoned. All such products contain a lot of fat, harmful spices and chemical components. Even from the use of sausage for the period of treatment, you need to refrain.
• Sour apples and fruits are contraindicated for eating, as they will irritate the stomach, weakened by the action of Helicobacter pylori.
• Alcoholic drinks. If alcohol is not recommended to be consumed even by healthy people, then it is strictly contraindicated for patients with pathology of the digestive system.

An indicative menu for three days with Helicobacter pylori

To understand which diet is optimal for infection with Helicobacter pylori, you can focus on the menu below.

	The first day	Second day	Third day
First meal	Two boiled chicken eggs, oatmeal in milk, tea with sugar	Buckwheat with milk, crackers and sweet tea	Soft-boiled egg, 2 croutons, green tea
Snack before lunch	A glass of milk with 0% fat	Cottage cheese with 0% fat with honey or dried fruits	Crouton with a slice of low-fat veal and a glass of kefir
Dinner	Puree soup with potatoes and carrots, steamed chicken fillet, boiled buckwheat. Kissel from fresh non-acidic berries	Soup with potatoes, steamed fish, boiled carrots, dried fruit jelly	Soup with vegetables and meatballs, but no spice and oil
Pre-dinner snack	Boiled or steamed fish, boiled green peas (in the form of mashed potatoes)	Kissel from dried fruits and croutons	Banana
Dinner	Milk and white bread croutons	Baked potatoes without oil, a portion of boiled meat or fish	Boiled egg, steamed cutlet, black tea with sugar, peeled pear

Even if a person infected with Helicobacter pylori understood how to eat with this disease, he should not refuse to take the drugs that the doctor prescribed. Diet alone will not get rid of the infection, but speed up the healing process.

Helicobacter pylori is a bacteria that normally should not be present in the human body. Therefore, it is necessary to direct all efforts to get rid of them forever.

The author of the article: Kuzmina Vera Valerievna | Endocrinologist, nutritionist

Education: Diploma of the Russian State Medical University named after NI Pirogov with a degree in General Medicine (2004). Residency at Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, diploma in Endocrinology (2006).