What Causes Upper Abdominal Pain After Large Amounts Of Coffee?

Posted on Sun, 26 Jul 2015

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Question : Whenever I drink more than 3-4 cups of coffee per week ( 1 cup /day 3-4 days/week) I get right upper abdominal pain 6-7/10.. That lasts for 18-24 hours which is difficult to relieve... What do you think can cause this

Answered by Dr. Rakesh Madhyastha (23 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Gastritis

Detailed Answer:
Hello

Thanks for the query

Coffee contains caffeine and milk, these two ingredients are known to cause gastritis. It irritates the lining of the stomach known as the gastric mucosa which causes the gastritis.

Here is what you should do

1. Avoid taking coffee or tea for the next one week
2. Tab Omeprazole once a day should be taken for a week on an empty stomach before breakfast
3. Try drinking coffee at the end of next week

If you are still facing abdominal pain then I recommend you to get evaluated with an endoscopy to rule out erosions

I hope I was of help, if you have any further queries please get back to me

regards

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar