What are the symptoms of antral gastritis? Which of these 8 symptoms do you have?

Antral gastritis is also a type of stomach disease, which is a chronic inflammation of the gastric antrum. Antral gastritis is mainly divided into two types: superficial and atrophic. Patients with antral gastritis may experience symptoms such as stomach pain, bloating, bad breath, and acid reflux. The symptoms of antral gastritis are similar to those of chronic gastritis.

1. Stomach bloating: Feeling bloated in the stomach, indigestion, or bloating, appetite blockage, and inability to swallow food. About 70% of patients with antral gastritis have this symptom.

2. Stomachache: Sometimes it hurts before meals, sometimes it hurts after meals, and some people feel pain in the middle of the night. The stomach pain may not feel severe, but rather dull, tender or muffled. The pain is located between the heart and the belly. About 85% of patients with antral gastritis have this symptom.

3. Heartburn: Congestion of the gastric mucosa and excessive stomach acid can cause heartburn, which is mainly a feeling of burning and fever in the stomach.

4. Acid reflux: Excessive stomach acid, frequent acid reflux, and a feeling of stomach acid rising or filling up in the stomach. About 50% of patients with antral gastritis have this symptom.

5. Loss of appetite: no appetite, unable to eat, or wanting to eat but not daring to eat when seeing food.

6. Weight loss: Some patients with stomach problems feel that their appetite is still good and they can eat, but they become thinner and lose weight day by day. This shows that their digestive function is not good. Although they eat, they cannot fully absorb the food.

7. Cold stomach: Many patients with stomach problems dare not eat cold food, or they will have stomach pain and diarrhea when the weather turns cold and the temperature drops.

8. Bad breath and black tongue coating: Patients with stomach problems often have symptoms such as bad breath, bitter taste in the mouth, and black tongue coating, accompanied by stomach pain and bloating.