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How do you relieve gastritis pain?
I have gastritis. How do you relieve gastritis pain?
1 Answer
This one is tricky with no simple answer. Most gastritis is chronic and does not cause pain. Acute gastritis, e.g. from getting an acute H pylori infection, will cause pain, but usually, the pain goes away once the infection has settled in. So whenever a patient comes to see me for pain and they were told it was gastritis, the pain is usually from something else, such as dyspepsia. A good GI doctor should be able to go beyond the lazy answer of "gastritis" to find out what the real cause is.