helibacterial pylori anyone heard of it?

[suzie942]

my husband suffers with helibacterial pylori, we dont know much about it, but it has cause him to loose 4 stone within the last 2 months, he cannot keep food or water down and he constantly vommits, he has been on anti biotics, which where no help and hospital said they couldnt find the cause, i'm just wondering if anyone has heard of this ugly unsightly bug????

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[SamQKitty]

I believe you mean helicobacter pylori...it's a bacterium that causes ulcers, among other things. Your husband sounds as if he might indeed have, if not an ulcer, at the least gastritis, which is similar.

The usual treatment for h. pylori is an antibiotic, coupled with antacid treatment, for a period of approximately 2-6 weeks (at least 2-4 weeks with the antibiotic and up to six weeks with the antacid).

If your husband doesn't show signs of improvement after a few weeks, it's possible that there is something else going on in addition to the h. pylori. He should definitely go back to the doctor. There are other bacteria that could be causing his symptoms, as well as intestinal parasites such as giardia, etc.

[Yucca13]

Hi
I've had H. Pylori for a couple of years & went through some of the antibiotic treatments (some of which were really awful). They didn't lower the count much.I tried a something I got in the healthfood store named Mastik gum. You take it for about a month or so. I think it is one or two capsules a day. Since I did that regime, my symptoms have improved tremendously. I don't need Zantac too often now. I haven't gotten another blood test because we don't have insurance right now, but I am quite sure it improved the problem quite a lot.
Hope it works for you.
Val

[midgirl]

i have had it and seen people with it, sometimes it takes multiple treatments , was he on prevacid, or prilosec, or zantac and pepto bismol? like a prevpac?

[Titchou]

You might try the Digestive Disorders thread as there were lots of posts on H. pylori there.