Does gastritis cause anemia?

Gastritis

is caused by Helicobacter pylori infection, bad eating habits and long-term use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, resulting in gastric mucosal damage and inflammation, the severity of the disease can vary from person to person. For mild patients, usually no obvious symptoms, symptoms are also manifested as abdominal distension, post-meal fullness, nausea and loss of appetite, usually does not cause anemia. For severe patients, due to inflammatory reaction to stimulate gastric mucosa erosion, can lead to gastric mucosa bleeding, when long-term repeated bleeding, it is easy to occur anemia, manifested as pale, fatigue, dizziness and so on.