What is chronic superficial gastritis? Chronic superficial gastritis is a chronic superficial inflammation of the gastric mucosa, which is the most common type of chronic gastritis and accounts for about 50% to 85% of all chronic gastritis during gastroscopy. The peak age of onset of this disease is 31 to 50 years old, with more men than women having the disease. The basic lesion of chronic superficial gastritis is epithelial cell degeneration, hyperplasia of the sulcus epithelium with infiltration of inflammatory cells in the lamina propria, and sometimes intestinal epithelial metaplasia of the surface epithelium and sulcus epithelium without reduction of the lamina propria. Gastroscopy shows gastric mucosal congestion, edema, punctate hemorrhage and erosion or yellowish-white mucus exudate. Barium meal fluoroscopy mostly shows spasm and irritation of gastric sinus, coarse mucosal particles, enhanced peristalsis and rapid emptying. At present, the disease is classified as mild, moderate or severe according to the depth of inflammatory cells infiltrating the mucosal layer in China. Any infiltration of the superficial 1/3 of the mucosa is mild; those involving the middle 1/3 are moderate; those exceeding 2/3 of the mucosal layer are severe. As the saying goes, nine out of ten people have gastritis, which means that chronic gastritis is very common, most of which are chronic superficial gastritis, and many patients are in a bad mood because they have chronic gastritis, and the burden of thought is increased, even insomnia, anxiety and depression. Many patients seek medical attention, take drugs, intravenous infusions, make symptoms more serious due to irregular treatment, affect diet and rest, and even have to be hospitalized. In fact, chronic gastritis is not terrible, the first chronic gastritis to have a scientific understanding of the majority of patients with superficial gastritis lack of clinical symptoms, some patients have epigastric distention, belching, vomiting acid, loss of appetite, or irregular epigastric vague pain, aggravated after eating and other manifestations. Some may present with other symptoms such as anemia and weight loss. Chronic gastritis caused by bile reflux may manifest as persistent epigastric pain after eating and vomiting of stomach contents that taste bitter and contain bile. Sinus gastritis has significant peptic ulcer-like epigastric pain or pressure, bloating, hiccups, and acidity, and can be recurrent, even with bleeding. Gastric body gastritis generally has fewer GI symptoms, and sometimes tongue inflammation, tongue pain, tongue mucosal atrophy, anemia, wasting, and diarrhea are found. Chronic superficial gastritis is mostly cured by treatment; if treatment is not standardized, it can develop further and the intrinsic glands are reduced by inflammatory destruction and can be transformed into atrophic gastritis.