Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) are bacteria found in saliva, stomach or mouth secretions. For Vietnamese people, using chopsticks to pick food into their mouths and take them to everyone, drinking from the same glass of water has a very high risk of H. pylori from the mouth of an infected person spreading.
High rates of H. pylori infection, high drug resistance, can lead to stomach cancer
With more than 30 years of experience in endoscopic testing and treatment, Dr. Le Kim Sang, Head of Endoscopy - Gastrointestinal Department, City International Hospital, each day treating about 50 cases of stomach, colon pain and H. pylori bacteria infections. The doctor said that in the case of patients suffering from peptic ulcer disease, H. pylori bacteria infection is the most difficult thing to treat.
Dr. Le Kim Sang, Head of Gastroenterology Department of City International Hospital is performing GI endoscopy on patient
Infection with H. pylori bacteria is quite common and the vast majority of people in Vietnam have it. From 1987 to 1989, the rate of infection of adults was 88 - 90%, children were 10%, the rate was almost unchanged in recent years. In particular, the most common route of infection is the oral route, the level of infection often infected across all ages, excluding men, women, and children.
In particular, the number of infections is large but the drug resistance is also large, which makes the patient afraid, the doctor is "confused" in the treatment. People infected with H. pylori bacteria often have symptoms of indigestion, bloating. Painful and hemorrhagic stomach ulcers are complications of peptic ulcers. In some cases, peptic ulcer is more severe when complications such as gastrointestinal bleeding, atrophic inflammation of the gastric mucosa, transformation of the gastric mucosa such as dysplasia, and real ...
According to Dr. Le Kim Sang, Head of Endoscopy at City International Hospital: “Cases of long-term H. pylori bacteria infections have the potential to cause complications such as inflammation, peptic ulcers and stomach cancer. Therefore, it is important to immediately diagnose a patient infected with H. pylori bacteria or not and find the optimal treatment for that patient. Here we encounter many cases of adults and children infected with H. pylori bacteria and the most important thing is that there is a lot of return, leading to drug resistance so it is difficult to treat.
Endoscopic procedure at City International Hospital
Sharing food or cutlery: person-to-person transmission through oral/oral
Doctors also believe that the main cause of the spread of H. pylori bacteria is due to eating habits and common activities. Most of Southeast Asians live emotionally, respectfully, so they eat and drink, they don't consider and be vigilant, but eat together. That creates the advantage of infection, spread HP.
When detecting the disease, many people feel indigestion and pain in the epigastric abdomen automatically buying oral drugs, regardless of the purpose of treatment, causing drug resistance in the community. There are people who, for their livelihood, take medicine every day to relieve pain and have the power to work. This is also a bad habit and also sets the stage for drug resistance.
H. pylori drug resistance affects treatment results and improves clinical conditions of patients, affects economic conditions ... Continued use of antibiotics in the next treatment regimen is both costly for patients and the rate of resistance of H. pylori bacteria will increase.
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People infected with H. pylori bacteria if not treated promptly, the condition worsens or the disease goes into a chronic stage, resulting in cancer. However, whether cancer progresses or not depends on many factors such as the person's location, the toxicity of the bacteria, diet, geography, ethnicity, and genetics. Treatment of H. pylori bacteria is very difficult, so the best measure is prevention, avoid H. pylori bacteria spreading from person to person. Everyone should have a sense of pathology, automatically examine and treat themselves, and prevent diseases in their families.
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