When it comes to Helicobacter pylori, I believe everyone is no stranger.
But who pays attention to this bacterium?
According to the data, more than half of the people on the mainland are infected with Helicobacter pylori, and the average infection rate can reach 59%, of which the average infection rate of children is 40%. The bacteria are mainly transmitted through "mouth-to-mouth", causing infections through the meal-sharing system.
Helicobacter pylori, however, is the culprit of stomach cancer
As early as 1983, Australian scholars J. Robin Warren and Barry J. Marshall found that Helicobacter pylori was closely related to chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer and even stomach cancer.
Because this bacterium prefers an acidic environment in the stomach, it has an extremely high infection rate and can also cause a variety of diseases.
This bacterium itself has evolved and coexisted with humans for a long time, and likes to hide under the mucus layer of the stomach, or on the surface of gastric epithelial cells, and ordinary injections have little effect.
On the other hand, many patients have poor compliance and do not usually cooperate with medication, resulting in the failure of eradication treatment.
The most important thing is that many people do not know that they have been infected with Helicobacter pylori!
Compared with stomach disease, the harm of Helicobacter pylori is that it will destroy the gastric mucosa, resulting in gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, and even stomach cancer.
If you have recently had the following 4 manifestations on the body, it is likely that you are infected with Helicobacter pylori.
1. Bad breath
Ordinary bad breath will relieve after a period of time, but if the body is infected with Helicobacter pylori, this bad breath can not be dissipated for a long time.
The main reason is that Helicobacter pylori invades the stomach, and the stomach and intestines are also stimulated, resulting in a substance called urease, which will be metabolized and decomposed in the digestive tract, resulting in ammonia, which cannot be excreted in time, and the symptoms of bad breath will occur.
Two. Repeated heartburn
After the human body is infected with Helicobacter pylori, it will also lead to excessive secretion of gastric acid, which will adversely affect normal stomach function.
With more and more bacteria, it will also increase the secretion of stomach acid, and patients will have symptoms of stomach burning and repeated heartburn. Especially after getting up in the morning, this feeling is more obvious, if this phenomenon occurs frequently in the recent period, we must pay attention to it.
Three. Decreased appetite
The main reason for the decline in appetite is that after eating, these bacteria will eat away at the nutrition or food residue in the meal, making people feel nauseous, thus affecting the appetite.
Excluding the decline in appetite caused by other factors, it is necessary to consider whether Helicobacter pylori is at work, and when encountering this situation, you must go to the hospital in time for examination, otherwise the symptoms will continue to worsen, and even induce other diseases.
Four. Abdominal pain
If the stomach invades Helicobacter pylori, it will multiply in large quantities under the right environment, which will damage the gastric mucosa, resulting in bloating and abdominal pain, and sometimes other gastrointestinal abnormalities, and the symptoms of abdominal pain are more obvious after eating.
After some people are infected with Helicobacter pylori, they mistakenly think that there is a change in gastrointestinal function, so they use some ways to treat stomach diseases to alleviate it.
As everyone knows, instead of alleviating the condition, there will be symptoms of diarrhea, sticky stools and pain in the upper abdomen, which is actually not a stomach disease, but Helicobacter pylori.
In this case, we must treat it in time, otherwise it is likely to induce other stomach diseases, such as common gastritis and gastric ulcers.
If you don't want to infect bacteria, the most important thing is prevention
Since Helicobacter pylori is currently the most likely route of transmission is "fecal-oral" transmission and "mouth-to-mouth" transmission.
And because the mainland belongs to the co-feeding system, but if a family member carries germs alone, he uses chopsticks to clip the dishes on the plate and then clips them to the child, then it is likely that infection will occur.
For Chinese, it is difficult to take a meal sharing system for general meals, so we need to use public chopsticks when eating, and we also need to pay attention to food hygiene, and we need to wash our hands before meals and after going to the toilet.
Some people will ask: Is it a bit pretentious to use public chopsticks?
Dear, if you really accidentally infectEd with Helicobacter pylori, will you still think it is pretentious?