helicobactor pylori?

Question

whats the next step medically if i finish triple therapy and still test positive for h pylori or symptoms continue ?

Answer 1

Helicobactor pylori is the bacteria that is one of the causes of ulcers in the stomach. If you are getting treatment with the triple therapy, then you should be OK, but if you are one of the few unlucky ones then go back to your GP and tell him you are getting no relief, he will send you back to the hospital for a follow up Gastroscopy, if this proves the bacteria has not cleared up then you may be put on further treatment, it could be more of the triple therapy or something else.

Answer 2

Don't be discouraged, and don't suspect your doctor, whatever you do. Triple therapy for heliobacter pylori is a first-line treatment, so of course they would have done that for you. That's not the only treatment available, however. You have heard of the bismuth treatment here. That is certainly an option and you might well want to try that if another round of triple therapy doesn't work, and if I were you I'd want to try another round. See your doctor again.

But there are other drugs as well that the doctor may want to substitute for one of the standard triple-therapy drugs in the next course of treatment.

Meanwhile, there are a couple of things that you can do that might help. They are almost like herbal treatment, but they don't hurt, and there is some thought they might actually help. They're cheap, too:

Broccoli sprouts and green tea. Interestingly, there is some evidence that a kind of sugar in green tea may help keep H. pylori from sticking to the stomach wall. And broccoli sprouts seem to be antagonistic to H. pylori:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15387326

(this is on the Pubmed website)

Anyway, it doesn't hurt to eat broccoli sprouts or drink green tea, so start on those and go back to your doctor and tell him what's going on. Maybe the second time will be the charm.

Good luck.

Answer 3

I had this about a year ago , as far as I am aware the bacteria will still show up in blood and breath tests for about 12 months after the triple therapy but that does not mean its still an active bacteria. Go back to your doctors in about 12 months for a re test. But if you have no symptoms then I wouldn't bother. The meds are usually 100 % effective so im told

Answer 4

If you are seeing a general practioner or a family medicine doctor, let him/her know your symptoms have not gone away. If you have not followed the recommeded diet changes, you should do so. As well, decrease stress, eliminate smoking, most caffiene and alcohol. You can get rid of H.pylori and still have symptoms of GI distress if you have not made other lifestyle changes that cause gastric problems. If you compiund a crummy lifestyle with H. pylori, you will keep having problems.

Answer 5

Two weeks of quadruple therapy, which uses two antibiotics, an acid suppressor, and a stomach-lining shield, looks promising in research studies. It is also called bismuth triple therapy.

Have you tried licorice root extract.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

For everything you meed to know, check out this website:
http://www.medicinenet.com/helicobacter_pylori/article.htm

I can't really explain it as it's not my field but this website can. Good luck.

Answer 8

You should again repeat the above treatment judiciously.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

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