Ulcer Diet: Changing To Foods That Don't Aggravate Your Ulcer Condition Are Recommended
Ulcers are something that affects your stomach and also the duodenum and common symptoms include burning sensation and pain in your upper abdominal region for which a common treatment is taking of antacid drugs as well as adhering to the proper ulcer diet. There no doubts the importance and effectiveness of ulcer diet and only recently it was found that foods could cause ulcers, though now the thinking is that it could also be due to some ailments which help in aggravating the symptoms of ulcer and which also causes a delay in their healing.
Foods To Avoid
There are certain things that need to be considered to help with your ulcer problems and one of them is to avoid following ailments by avoiding things such as eating peppers, chilies and peppermints as well as citrus fruits and cocoa, fried and fatty foods as well as chocolates. These foods should definitely not be a part of a proper ulcer diet and when you do eat, it is always a good idea to eat slowly and chew your food well and also eats at night about two hours before turning in for the day.
In addition, your ulcer diet should also take note of those foods that causes you pain and also results in burning and thus should be avoided. Furthermore, according to recommendations of the National Research Council's Recommended Dietary Allowances, a good ulcer diet should include eating a single toast along with margarine and jelly at breakfast followed by half a cup of juice such as apple juice and consuming no more than a single teaspoon of sugar along with a quarter teaspoon of salt.
At lunch, your ulcer diet should include cream of potato soup along with chicken patty (broiled) and some tossed salad as too a teaspoon of mustard and some small amount (quarter) of salt, and even a few peaches could be consumed. For dinner, your ulcer diet should include baked fish along with mashed potatoes along with one slice of bread and small portion of apricot nectar as well as a dessert, and a teaspoon of margarine.
Such an ulcer diet is ideally suited for anyone that has a non-ulcer dyspepsia problem and it is also very similar to the diet recommended for someone having peptic ulcer. Once you are careful about your food intake, the very least benefit you can hope to gain is to lessen the chances of causing ulcer development, and not aggravating existing ulcer conditions.
