Helicobacter pylori is officially listed as a definitive carcinogen!
Just recently, a woman was unfortunately recruited.
As a large country infected with Helicobacter pylori, the mainland has a statistical infection rate of up to 60%, nearly 700 million people are infected, and the infection rate of children is as high as 40%.
Many parents wonder why the infection rate of children is so high.
The University of Science and Technology would like to say:
Helicobacter pylori is a typical representative of bullying soft and afraid of hardness, specifically looking for children, the elderly, poor resistance, malnutrition of people!
Children will bear the brunt of the attack!
Source: Science Family Parenting Original
Is Helicobacter pylori with such a high infection rate terrifying? Under what circumstances can I get infected? Do children need to be checked? And how to effectively prevent...
HKUST has counted the most asked questions from parents, and is ready to answer them one by one today!
Helicobacter pylori jianghu people called: chopsticks man!
Because its killer skill is chopsticks! With just a pair of chopsticks, you can make the whole family win!
In addition to chopsticks, water cups, toilets, but also its spread of sharp weapons!
After all, its transmission route is not as simple as saliva crossing!
As the most common infectious bacteria, Helicobacter pylori is also the main cause of chronic gastritis and peptic ulcer!
Many people have no symptoms after infection, even if they have indigestion and abdominal pain, they will not pay special attention.
Mainly because now young people who do not have a stomach disease, can not have a stomach disease do not dare to say that they are urban beauty!
But who would have thought that you would be surrounded by Helicobacter pylori?
It's really confusing!
So, if you have a stomach disease, can you be infected with Helicobacter pylori?
A: Not necessarily
People infected with Helicobacter pylori will develop gastritis, but gastritis is not necessarily Helicobacter pylori!
If you often have nausea, vomiting, acid reflux, bloating, pain, and a history of gastritis, it is recommended to go gastroscopy first, and the doctor can take the gastric mucosa under the microscope for Helicobacter pylori examination while doing endoscopy.
However, the University of Science and Technology recommends that those who have a history of stomach cancer in the family can go to a test, and if they are found to be positive, they should be cured as soon as possible, which can reduce the incidence of stomach cancer.
What is the specific manifestation of Helicobacter pylori?
Helicobacter pylori is a common cause of chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, stomach cancer, if any, it must be cured to avoid recurrence of the disease.
Otherwise your daily routine is hiccups and farts, bad breath, flatulence, and stomach erosion and bleeding, always uncomfortable, who can bear this?
So what is the situation to check if you are already infected?
If there are abdominal pain, bloating, acid reflux, belching (hiccups) and other digestive tract symptoms.
Or people with peptic ulcers, chronic atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, intraepithelial neoplasia, and a family history of stomach cancer, HKUDA recommends that everyone can go to the hospital for a test.
Determining whether you are infected with Helicobacter pylori is very simple, hanging up comprehensive and chronic disease clinics or gastroenterology.
Non-invasive testing, as long as a tablet of urea carbon 13 tablets is taken orally, and then wait for about 20 minutes, and blow down the air on the detection card, the detection process is easy to operate and painless.
Recently, there is a simpler way to self-test:
It is the first self-test product approved by the Food and Drug Administration, 149 yuan a piece, ten minutes can produce results!
A few cups of milk tea money can do it!
If necessary, the doctor may also recommend gastroscopy and invasive tests such as gastric mucosal tissue biopsy and gastric mucosal hp culture.
If you are healthy and healthy, you don't have to worry about your child's infection, isn't it more reassuring!
If I find out that I or my family members are infected with Helicobacter pylori, do I need to check my child?
A: No!
In general, there are no symptoms of discomfort, and doctors will not recommend examinations for children under 14 years of age.
Because children under the age of 14 are not immune to stable, and even if they are infected, they are mostly asymptomatic or mild.
The main purpose of examination for Helicobacter pylori is to find the cause of symptoms, not to detect them for the sole purpose of testing.
So the child will wait until he is 14 years old!
Of course, if the child is already showing symptoms, it is necessary to go to the screening.
1. When the child often has nausea, vomiting, indigestion, acid reflux, abdominal pain and other symptoms, this may be a problem with the baby's stomach and intestines.
If the doctor considers that the baby may have chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, etc., Helicobacter pylori is one of the suspects when looking for the cause.
2. Iron deficiency anemia is repeatedly difficult to treat, and the cause cannot be found, and it should be considered that it is related to Helicobacter pylori.
The site of iron absorption is in the small intestine, and Helicobacter pylori infection is a gastrointestinal disease, which is easy to cause iron absorption disorders.
This leads to iron deficiency anemia in the baby. Therefore, when the baby has refractory iron deficiency anemia and cannot find the cause, it is necessary to consider detecting Helicobacter pylori!
3. If an immediate family member (parent, sibling) has a gastrointestinal tumor, or if the baby himself has gastric mucosal-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma, plan to take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (including low-dose aspirin) for a long time, also need to be screened for Helicobacter pylori!
If one of the couples has it, can they still kiss? Will it be contagious?
A: Yes
Its stunt oral-oral transmission is not covered, couples often kiss affectionately between couples, Helicobacter pylori that is not unimpeded, such as fish in the water!
Therefore, if there is an infected person with Helicobacter pylori, it is best to reduce the number of kisses to avoid infecting others.
Parents should also be reminded here: do not feed their children mouth-to-mouth, lest their children also be infected!
Family members should also remember to divide the tableware and use public chopsticks when eating!
After all, it will not only cause cancer, but there are many troubles that will slowly entangle you!
So if infected, must it be eradicated?
On April 19, 2019, the mainland issued the "Expert Consensus Opinions on the Eradication of Helicobacter pylori and the Prevention and Control of Gastric Cancer in China (2019, Shanghai)", which clearly pointed out:
Eradication of Helicobacter pylori is the most important controllable means to prevent gastric cancer, according to the experience of Japan, between the ages of 18-40, eradication benefits the most;
Therefore, once infected, even if there are no symptoms, treatment is recommended!
Eradication in superficial gastritis or asymptomatic stage, the greatest benefit, almost 100% prevention of gastrointestinal cancer;
So eradicating Helicobacter pylori can do more harm than good!
I heard that eating probiotics, garlic, onions... These can kill Helicobacter pylori, is this true?
A: No
The main role of probiotics is to alleviate the imbalance of intestinal flora caused by antibacterial drugs and reduce adverse reactions.
But no doctor would say let you eat probiotics to treat Helicobacter pylori!
Let's talk about garlic and onions, it is even more eight rods and killing Helicobacter pylori is not next to the side!
You have to use it to sterilize, the bacteria may not die, but the Jun next to you may be smoked to death!
If you really want to eat garlic for the sake of sterilization, then it is really "garlic" you are fierce!
Seeing here, we will summarize the following to prevent infection, what we should pay attention to every day:
★ Wash your hands frequently, before meals and after going to the toilet;
★ Do not share toothbrushes;
★ Give your child special cutlery;
★ Encourage the use of public chopsticks during dinners;
★ The dishes and chopsticks should be disinfected, especially when eating with helicobacter pylori positives, so that the tableware is separated;
★ People with Helicobacter pylori infection should take the initiative to share meals with others.
Because:
Helicobacter pylori can be detected in the saliva, feces, and vomit of infected people.
The utensils they used, dental equipment, toilets, etc., as well as contaminated food and water, can be a source of infection.