H pylori - You can catch it from people, too

Ulcers and h pylori

Q:I recently read an article on stomach ulcers. It stated that recent research has unearthed the presence of a bug called helicobacter pylori (H pylo...

Wash your hands: - The doctor won't, so you'd better

Possibly the single greatest advance of modern medicine was a discovery made around 1850. Doctors were spreading disease because they weren't washing...

Mrsa: now wash your hands

It s been said that the greatest medical breakthrough was to get doctors to wash their hands an observation that was made around 140 years ago Sadl...

A spoonful of honey for h pylori

Having suffered from stomach lining inflammations and duodenal ulcers for over 30 years, it was a relief to discover three years ago that the underlyi...

H. pylori - You can catch it from people, too

Researchers have found that Helicobacter pylori can be caught from someone who has gastroenteritis and not just from infected food.

Doctors detect h. pylori bug with breath test

Doctors can easily detect Helicobacter pylori, the bug responsible for most ulcers, with a simple breath test without resorting to endoscopy which, fo...