How Do You Get H-pylori And Can You Die From This?

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Hey Guest, I had the same question but read the following article and it helped.

Baylor College of Medicine.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of treating Helicobacter pylori infection on the recurrence of gastric and duodenal ulcer disease. DESIGN: Follow-up of up to 2 years in patients with healed ulcers who had participated in randomized, controlled trials. SETTING: A Veterans Affairs hospital. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 109 patients infected with H. Pylori who had a recently healed duodenal (83 patients) or gastric ulcer (26 patients) as confirmed by endoscopy. INTERVENTION: Patients received ranitidine, 300 mg, or ranitidine plus triple therapy. Triple therapy consisted of tetracycline, 2 g; metronidazole, 750 mg; and bismuth subsalicylate, 5 or 8 tablets (151 mg bismuth per tablet) and was administered for the first 2 weeks of treatment; ranitidine therapy was continued until the ulcer had healed or 16 weeks had elapsed. After ulcer healing, no maintenance antiulcer therapy was given. MEASUREMENTS: Endoscopy to assess ulcer recurrence was done at 3-month intervals or when a patient developed symptoms, for a maximum of 2 years. RESULTS: The probability of recurrence for patients who received triple therapy plus ranitidine was significantly lower than that for patients who received ranitidine alone: For patients with duodenal ulcer, 12% (95% CI, 1% to 24%) compared with 95% (CI, 84% to 100%); for patients with gastric ulcer, 13% (CI, 4% to 31%) compared with 74% (44% to 100%). Fifty percent of patients who received ranitidine alone for healing of duodenal or gastric ulcer had a relapse within 12 weeks of healing. Ulcer recurrence in the triple therapy group was related to the failure to eradicate H. Pylori and to the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. CONCLUSIONS: Eradication of H. Pylori infection markedly changes the natural history of peptic ulcer in patients with duodenal or gastric ulcer. Most peptic ulcers associated with H. Pylori infection are curable.
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Doctor told me I had gastritis and prescribed me zantac I took for about a week and I felt like it went away, but I was wrong, so I'm on zantac again but this time its taking longer  to go away, ive been on zantac for a good 2 weeks now and it has not gotten any better. Should I go back to my doctor or do I keep on taking it?
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Helicobacter pylori is a Gram-negative, microaerophilic bacterium that infects various areas of the stomach and duodenum. The cases of peptic ulcers, gastritis, duodenitis, and some cancers are caused by H. Pylori infections. However, many who are infected do not show any symptoms of this disease. So if the virus is cancerous, one can die with the disease.

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