Beware of Upper Body Pylori Bacteria: Symptoms and Risks Explained by Doctors

[Health Medical Network/Reporter Wang Guanting]A 30-year-old female patient surnamed Zhang, due to long-term symptoms such as stomach pain, abdominal distension, and nausea, went to the hospital for gastroenterology and hepatobiliary examination and underwent gastroscopy and biopsy. The doctor found that the patient was infected. Pylori, which causes chronic gastric inflammation and pre-gastric lymphoma, was successfully eradicated after two weeks of three-in-one antacid plus antibiotics, and the stomach gradually returned to normal. It is recommended to follow up after one year.

pylori infection rate is much higher than that of hepatitis B mouth feeding be careful infection

Dr. Zheng Yuming from the Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Department of Children’s General Hospital said that if you blindly attribute gastrointestinal discomfort to the stress and stress of life, it would be a big mistake! Modern people are under high pressure in life, autonomic nerve disorder, and the clinical symptoms of hindering gastrointestinal function are similar to pylori infection, and are often confused. The former can be adjusted by daily life and diet, while the latter must be sterilized by drugs.

The infection rate of pylori bacteria is much higher than that of hepatitis B, and its prevalence rate in Taiwan reaches an average of 50%. , even loss of appetite, unexplained weight loss and other symptoms; among them, children under 10 years old should pay more attention, as adults have higher resistance, so parents and children should pay special attention to mouth feeding or intimate behavior.

Eighty percent of infections without symptoms increase the risk of stomach cancer

Dr. Cheng Yuming pointed out that 80% of the infected people have no symptoms, and 20% of the infected people have gastric ulcers and other peptic ulcer diseases; when the stomach is damaged by pylori bacteria for a long time, the mucous membrane changes will also increase the risk of Gastric cancer risk, among which gastric lymphoma is the most common.

Physician Zheng Yuming emphasized that most of the pylori-infected people have been infected since childhood, and were not detected until adulthood, indigestion, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, and even gastric cancer. Do not eat irritating food such as spicy, hot, sour, do not smoke or drink, etc., you can live in peace, otherwise you will also have the risk of disease in the future.