Q What habits should I build to avoid recurrence?
A Eating slowly and in small amounts, keeping regular meal times, avoiding coffee and painkillers on an empty stomach, quitting smoking, drinking less, and managing stress are key. Small habits make as much difference as medication.
Detailed Answer
The stomach lining recovers within regular meals. Don't eat a lot at once; chew slowly and eat moderate amounts, and keep meal times consistent. Coffee and painkillers on an empty stomach are the combination that damages the lining fastest, so avoid them, and since smoking, heavy drinking, and stress are major causes of gastritis recurrence, manage them together.
Korean Medicine Clinic Perspective
Lifestyle improvement and stomach lining recovery treatment must go together for great effect. If, while calming the stomach with Korean medicine, you establish habits you can keep one by one, you can maintain a comfortable stomach for a long time even after stopping medication.
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