
GASTRIC ULCERS
Ulcers of the stomach attract the descriptor "gastric" and with duodenal ulcers they combine to produce the medical entity known as Peptic Ulcer Disease. More and more the weight of scientific opinion is swinging towards the notion that most peptic ulcers are caused by a bacterial infection. Helicobacter Pyloridi is the organism found in relation to both gastric and duodenal ulcers and not surprisingly both varieties of peptic ulcer clear up after a course of antibiotic therapy.
When doctors are serious about the treatment of Peptic Ulcer Disease they prescribe Amoxil, Denol, and Tetracycline antibiotics. Before that time they usually puddle around with drugs such as Zantac and Tagamet because authoritative therapeutic guide lines have still not caught up with advances in the laboratory. In part this lack of advice from eminent gastroenterologists and academics springs from a conflict of interest.
Academics receive research funding and numerous perquisites from companies which still advertise and sell conventional anti ulcer therapy. Gastroenterologists can make up to a million dollars a year peering down ulcer victims throats with endoscopes. For them to come out in favour of initial triple antibiotic therapy merely serves to undercut a very lucrative source of personal income indeed. Perhaps all a GP really needs to do before prescribing triple antibiotic therapy for a suspected peptic ulcer is do a blood test for the bacteria before and after commencing treatment.
Home Remedies
Now that science has identified a bacteria central to the development of both gastric and duodenal ulcers, treatment and prevention is set to change. Prevention involves great care dealing with human vomitus. Bacteriologists identify vomit as Helicobacter's mode of transmission. Don't handle vomit without rubber or vinyl gloves. If clothes, carpets or furniture are contaminated by vomit, wash out the stains with an antiseptic solution rather than just plain water.
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