How to Use gastritis in a Sentence

gastritis

noun
  • Their drug use takes a toll on their bodies, leading to problems like gastritis and liver disease.
    Emily Cadei, Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2017
  • All that—heartburn, acid reflux, gastritis, and ulcers—is painful.
    Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 28 May 2018
  • An autopsy found a large amount of plastic waste in her intestines that had caused gastritis and blood infection.
    USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2020
  • But the gastritis remained an issue throughout the season, affecting his strength and endurance.
    Star Tribune, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The doctor diagnosed a mild form of gastritis, an inflammation of the stomach lining, and recommended some over-the-counter medicine.
    Reed Abelson, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2017
  • Fighting off high cholesterol and a bad case of gastritis, Au finally managed to escape and his trio of torturers was arrested and tried.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2001
  • Rosa Diaz was no stranger to hunger and stress and a throbbing pain in the gut that was usually nothing serious — gastritis, she had been told, or lactose intolerance.
    Nina Martin, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2019
  • And a study published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology in 2014 found that supplements of apigenin, a flavonoid found in celery, may have helped slow the progression of gastritis and gastric cancer—in gerbils, that is.
    Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 25 Jan. 2019
  • Aside from the chemical taste in his mouth, Chen was diagnosed with stomach ulcers, gastritis and inflammation of the esophagus.
    CBS News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Per the Washington Post’s Morgan Krakow, this plastic pollution triggered intestinal inflammation, which in turn led to gastritis, a blood infection and pus in the lungs.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 19 Aug. 2019
  • There was all this inflammation, and gastritis had developed.
    Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2010
  • This will help to rule out some of the more common causes of vomiting, such as gastritis (inflammation of the stomach), intestinal parasites, and infectious diseases.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
  • In one of the camps, doctors found that about 30 percent of villagers suffered from symptoms—including joint pain, gastritis, problems breathing and ulcers—connected to waterborne diseases.
    Adam Matthews, Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2015
  • Common side effects: particularly at higher doses and with chronic usage, can cause kidney damage, painful stomach ulcers or gastritis, and increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
    Karen Weintraub, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Allakos, which takes aim at diseases like eosinophilic gastritis, an inflammatory condition causing symptoms such as diarrhea and pain, took in at least $142 million.
    Christopher Zinsli, WSJ, 22 June 2018
  • Chen’s attorney, Steven Hittelman, said his client started to experience suspicious symptoms in March and has since been diagnosed with two stomach ulcers, gastritis and a swollen esophagus.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Drinking alcohol can also irritate the stomach, worsen acid reflux, and contribute to gastritis, Dr. Kunza says.
    Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Coronavirus fears Miriam’s 15-year-old daughter, Julieth, suffers from migraines, asthma, chronic gastritis and tachycardia, a rapid heart-rate disorder.
    Silvia Foster-Frau, ExpressNews.com, 4 June 2020
  • Instead, in October 2021, he was sent home with a mysterious, crippling ailment that his employers dismissed as gastritis—chronic indigestion—and claimed had nothing to do with the arduous conditions at his work site.
    Time, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Sloss filed for workers' compensation after he was diagnosed with chronic anxiety and gastritis.
    Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2021
  • In poorer communities, such as the San Juan neighborhood of Carolina and the mountain town of Canovanas, doctors are seeing worrying numbers of patients with conjunctivitis and gastritis brought on by contaminated water and poor hygiene.
    Carlie Kollath Wells, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Aid workers have found widespread disease in remote communities hammered by the twin storms, including fungal infections, gastritis and flulike sicknesses.
    New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Additionally, your excessive gas coupled with other ailments like abdominal pain could be a symptom of gastritis or peptic ulcer disease, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
    Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 10 Mar. 2022
  • According to Head’s attorneys, she has been diagnosed scarring and narrowing in her throat, difficulty swallowing, chronic gastritis, acid reflux and abdominal pain.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Originally from Honduras, Hirsch was previously diagnosed with gastritis, stress and bulimia.
    Allison Horton, miamiherald, 23 July 2017
  • Aspirin also unfortunately inhibits stomach-protective substances like prostaglandins which make people more susceptible to ulcers, gastritis and other complications.
    Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2022

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