From my understanding of gastritis, it is actually not one condition, but can be several different conditions that all have one thing in common: inflammation of the stomach lining. Do you know what type of gastritis you had, what it was caused from, and how severe it was?
Alcohol can definitely irritate and erode your stomach lining, and is actually a CAUSE of acute gastritis, so the answer to your question is: definitely yes, it can!
The amount and frequency of alcohol consumption is important, however. Excessive alcohol use is most notably the cause of acute gastritis.
Drinking one glass of alcohol on occasion...probably not as likely to cause gastritis. However, someone with a history of gastritis, I'm not sure "how much" and "how often" drinking alcohol would cause gastritis to re-occur, as it depends on your current health (are you eating well, exercising, managing stress, etc)?
Can you tell us: how much and how often you are drinking wine?
Other factors are important, too: your age, medical history (other conditions are risk factors for developing gastritis and/or in its re- occurrence), other medications, stress, etc.
Alcohol alone may/may not cause gastritis to re-occur, but if no other changes have happened in your life, then you may want to stop drinking wine and see if your symptoms improve. I am not sure how severe your gastritis was before, and what treatment(s) you chose, but you may want to call your doctor and let him/her know the symptoms have re-appeared.
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From my understanding of gastritis, it is actually not one condition, but can be several different conditions that all have one thing in common: inflammation of the stomach lining. Do you know what type of gastritis you had, what it was caused from, and how severe it was?
Alcohol can definitely irritate and erode your stomach lining, and is actually a CAUSE of acute gastritis, so the answer to your question is: definitely yes, it can!
The amount and frequency of alcohol consumption is important, however. Excessive alcohol use is most notably the cause of acute gastritis.
Drinking one glass of alcohol on occasion...probably not as likely to cause gastritis. However, someone with a history of gastritis, I'm not sure "how much" and "how often" drinking alcohol would cause gastritis to re-occur, as it depends on your current health (are you eating well, exercising, managing stress, etc)?
Can you tell us: how much and how often you are drinking wine?
Other factors are important, too: your age, medical history (other conditions are risk factors for developing gastritis and/or in its re- occurrence), other medications, stress, etc.
Alcohol alone may/may not cause gastritis to re-occur, but if no other changes have happened in your life, then you may want to stop drinking wine and see if your symptoms improve. I am not sure how severe your gastritis was before, and what treatment(s) you chose, but you may want to call your doctor and let him/her know the symptoms have re-appeared.
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