1 The main ways of infection

Bacteria in the open space can not develop, and therefore seek to get into the new stomach through dishes, hygiene products and airborne droplets. The bacteria have properties that help it penetrate and strengthen in the mucous membranes of the stomach, gradually destroying its tissues: Helicobacter pylori does not frighten the acid medium, it is quite resistant to it. Therefore, getting a bacterium into the body threatens not only with inflammation, erosions and gastritis, but over time, if pathology is ignored, ulcers and even stomach cancer will appear.

The trouble is that bacteria are able to generate and release enzymes and toxins, and in a huge amountthey will bring down their negative force on the cells of the mucous membrane. This also contributes to the onset of inflammatory processes in the stomach and duodenum.

These bacteria develop in the human body for a long time, but found them not so long ago, for which scientists from Australia even received the Nobel Prize. R. Warren and B. Marshall were able to prove the existence of Helicobacter pylori, and when it was discovered that because of this pathogen there is gastritis, ulcer and other diseases of the stomach, and the infection can be transmitted from person to person, in medicine a small revolution occurred,appeared in a completely new way.

How can you get Helicobacter pylori? The most common reason is ignoring simple hygiene products. Physicians could calculate that in percentage terms the development of diseases when these bacteria enter the stomach occurs in most of those people who live in hostels, boarding schools, often go on business trips and eat in public canteens.

In countries with a lower standard of living, the incidence of Helicobacteriosis is higher than in developed countries. But still the statistics are very disturbing, since more than half of the people on Earth are carriers and distributors of a dangerous bacterium. True, if the infection has got inside, it does not mean that there will be a peptic ulcer.

If someone has become infected with the family, then the rest of the households become infected with one Helicobacter pylori strain, and antibiotic therapy will be passed by everyone. But treatment is not required if inflammation in the stomach or intestine is not observed.

2 Main symptoms of

If infection occurs, the symptoms of infection will appear. Sometimes the illness for a long time does not make itself felt, but more often it starts to appear on the 6th or 8th day after the bacteria got into the body, settled and started active activity.

Symptoms of the life of bacteria appear in:

• frequent abdominal pain, especially before eating, and after eating the pain is reduced;
• feeling of heaviness after eating, often there is a burp;
• rapid emetic pumping.

All these symptoms are the body's signal that the gastrointestinal tract is not in order. But if it is helikobakterioz, they arise and quickly disappear, so most people do not attach importance to such manifestations.

A person has a chance not to provoke bacteria, then they can remain in the body for years, but they do not cause problems. However, if they are given even the slightest chance, they immediately begin to intensify and become too big a threat to health.

To such dangerous manifestations are:

• malnutrition, lack of useful substances and vitamins in the diet;
• smoking and alcoholic beverages( in large quantities);
• other infectious diseases;
• weakened immunity;
• persistent nerve stress, stress;
• heavy physical work;
• some complicated formulations that weaken the defenses;
• is a constant violation of hygiene standards.

But when the discovery of bacteria became a fait accompli, it became possible to study their role in the development of diseases and it became clear how to treat them, the recurrence of those who have a stomach ulcer or duodenal ulcer decreased markedly. Therefore, now doctors insist on passing the diagnosis to identify Helicobacter pylori.

3 How to detect bacteria?

If it appears that the infection has occurred, the study should be thorough. There are a number of methods that allow:

• to identify the organism;
• reveal signs of his life;
• with the help of antibodies in the serum get the immunological response of the body in response to infection.

Usually the patient then undergoes an examination when the inflammation is in the active phase.

Rapid results give blood and exhaled air tests. But for the results to be more truthful, a breathing test will require preliminary preparation. To do this, for 2 weeks should be abandoned some medicines:

• antibiotics;
• anti-inflammatory;
• antisecretory;
• antacid.

To this list you need to add alcoholic beverages and food consisting of legumes, and in a few hours you can not smoke and use chewing gum. To test the stomach and 12-colon, a biopsy is performed, which gives a more accurate result. But with endoscopic examination it is more reliable to take samples from different parts of the tissue.

How to expel bacteria? For treatment, there are certain schemes that have the right to appoint a gastroenterologist. Therapy includes drugs:

• antibacterial;
• of bismuth;
• antisecretory.

Antibiotics are not always prescribed to not harm the body, but if there are erosions, ulcers, atrophic gastritis, then for healing such medications will be needed. Drug therapy is usually designed for 14 days, and interrupt this process is undesirable, otherwise microorganisms will be able to adapt and the course will have to prescribe a new one, with other medications. A few months after the therapy, you may again have to pass laboratory tests.

Of course, in order to avoid the fate of carrying dangerous bacteria in your body, it's better not to get infected. To do this, you need to control your lifestyle, maintain a healthy diet and adhere to health standards.

When it is known how Helicobacter pylori is transmitted, the danger of infection can be minimized to protect your loved ones and not to waste your health and time on fighting against the microscopic enemy.