It is important to reviews a patient’s history regarding medications, alcohol intake, smoking, and other risk factors that may be associated with gastritis. Symptoms of gastritis may be silent or manifest as abdominal discomfort, nausea, vomiting, and/or gastrointestinal bleeding. Individuals with gastritis experience abdominal pain and gastric disturbances. Symptoms as a result of gastritis are upper abdominal pain or discomfort, dyspepsia (indigestion), nausea, vomiting of blood or dark brown/coffee-ground like vomitus, bloating sensation in the upper abdomen, belching, heartburn, loss of appetite, melena (dark stools), gastric hemorrhage, fever, lethargy, halitosis, epigastric pain or abdominal pain, early satiety, fatigue and diarrhea.

• It is important to reviews a patient’s history regarding medications, alcohol intake, smoking, and other risk factors that may be associated with gastritis.
• Specific areas of focus when obtaining a history from the patient include history of:^[1][2][3]
  • Nausea & vomiting
  • Epigastric or abdominal pain
  • Bloating
  • Pain aggravating or relieving with food
  • Gastrointestinal bleeding
  • Anorexia
  • Weight loss
  • Pallor
  • Previous laboratory findings of anemia
  • A positive family history of gastrointestinal diseases or H. pylori infection
  • History of medication use (e.g. NSAIDS)
  • Food and drinking water hygiene

• If H. pylori infection is suspected in children, the history of the patient should include:
  • Pain (location, character, duration, radiation, severity, aggravating and relieving factor)
  • Diet, appetite and weight changes
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Bloating
  • A positive family history of gastrointestinal diseases (eg., Ulcers, crohn’s disease) or H. pylori infection
  • History of NSAIDS use
  • Food and drinking water hygiene

• Individuals with gastritis experience abdominal pain and gastric disturbances.
• The following symptoms may result from gastritis or the underlying cause:
  • Upper abdominal pain or discomfort
  • Dyspepsia (indigestion)
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting of blood or dark brown/coffee-ground like vomitus
  • Bloating sensation in the upper abdomen
  • Belching
  • Heartburn
  • Loss of appetite
  • Melena (Dark stools)
  • Gastric hemorrhage
  • Fever
  • Lethargy
  • Halitosis
  • Epigastric or abdominal pain
  • Early satiety
  • Fatigue
  • Diarrhea

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