How much does Helicobacter pylori cause bad breath? And the smell of bad breath

In China, the average infection rate of Helicobacter pylori is close to 60%.

Helicobacter pylori (H.P.) is also examined in many routine physical examinations. People who know panic see the test results show "positive":

"Finished, do I have stomach cancer?"

"I was infected, and my family was infected? ! "

"How can the family avoid it?"

Why is the infection rate of Helicobacter pylori so high? How will it affect us? Today we will learn about this bad Helicobacter pylori!

What route can be infected with Helicobacter pylori?

Helicobacter pylori is usually hidden in the stomach, saliva or feces of infected people. Generally speaking, it is oral communication.

There are two types of oral communication:

Oral route: for example, dinner without chopsticks and spoons and kissing between two people can spread H.p；;

Fecal route: spread through contaminated water and food. Because helicobacter pylori is not resistant to high temperature, such as some unclean food on the street, raw and cold food that is not fully cooked, it is possible to eat it in this way.

Children may also be infected with Helicobacter pylori. Children's infections are mostly related to their parents being infected with H.P. and living in close contact with each other.

Is the infection rate of HP really high?

In China, the infection rate of Helicobacter pylori reaches 50%-60%. But it also includes some regional differences, which are lower in the south and higher in the north and west.

According to statistics, the infection rate in Qinghai and Tibet is as high as 80%-90%, and that in Beijing is about 58%.

However, some data from western developed countries show that the infection rate of Hp is gradually decreasing, even lower than 10% in some areas. The more developed the economy, the better the living conditions, and the lower the infection trend of Helicobacter pylori.

What symptoms can you see from HP?

About half of the people have no symptoms.

Many patients infected with H.P. were found by physical examination reports. At this time, many patients did not feel uncomfortable when asked, but some people showed some symptoms.

The symptoms of H.p infection are mostly nonspecific symptoms, such as mild intermittent stomachache, abdominal distension, belching, gastric acid reflux and so on. As for the online saying that bad breath has little to do with HP.

Can Helicobacter pylori infection develop into other diseases?

Generally speaking, the disease of Helicobacter pylori is not an independent disease, it is an infectious state. After being infected with bacteria, Helicobacter pylori will continue to grow in the stomach if it is not treated.

It will form chronic, persistent and active gastric mucosal inflammation. This is called chronic gastritis. Some patients with chronic gastritis have symptoms and some have no symptoms.

If these patients have some bad habits, such as irregular diet, drinking strong tea and coffee, or drinking alcohol, about 10- 15% of patients will develop peptic ulcer, which is what people call gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer.

In addition, when the season changes to cold, it is also a high incidence period of peptic ulcer disease.

Let's talk about the relationship between HP and gastric cancer. H.p is only one of the conditions that lead to gastric cancer, because the formation of gastric cancer is the result of many factors, including bad living habits in the history of gastric cancer.

However, according to the big data of medical statistics, about 1% of people infected with Helicobacter pylori may suffer from malignant stomach diseases, including gastric cancer and gastric lymphoma.

1% may not seem high, but if we count China's huge population base and high infection rate of H.P., it can explain why China is a big country with gastric cancer.

China accounts for nearly half of the total number of new cases of gastric cancer in the world every year. Therefore, it is still necessary to attract everyone's attention.

Are gastritis and gastric ulcer caused by Helicobacter pylori?

About 95% of peptic ulcer and chronic active gastritis are closely related to Helicobacter pylori infection.

Only about 5% of peptic ulcer diseases are related to other factors, such as drinking a lot of alcohol and taking drugs that are easy to damage gastrointestinal mucosa, such as non-steroidal antipyretic and analgesic drugs, aspirin and voltarin.

Can diet therapy cure HP?

Many people on the Internet shared their examples of curing Helicobacter pylori through dietotherapy. For example, eat honey, vitamin C, broccoli and so on.

All of the above are foods, and the effective ingredient for treating H.P. is antibiotics. Food can't contain such high levels of antibiotics.

If broccoli is used for sterilization, why do you need antibiotics? Even garlic and broccoli can't kill Helicobacter pylori. There is no data and research in medicine to confirm and support this statement.

I suggest you eat more vegetables, fruits and foods rich in vitamin C, which is good for your stomach. Because the deep-processed pickled food contains a lot of salt and nitrite, it will make Helicobacter pylori even more powerful and greatly increase its lethality to the stomach.

Can HP infection heal itself? Must I be treated?

In most cases, HP cannot heal itself. It lives on the surface of gastric mucosa. If you don't take medication, you will stay there to breed and cause persistent inflammation, and you need to go to the hospital for specialist guidance.

If children are infected with Hp, according to the advice of "20 15 experts on diagnosis and treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection in children", if children have no special symptoms and grow normally, it is not recommended to screen and treat asymptomatic Hp babies too actively.

How do we prevent it every day?

When eating, whether outside or at home, you should use public chopsticks and spoons to share meals; If you are infected with HP, let your family do a test, find the problem in time, and eradicate it together; Feeding the baby without mouth to mouth; Don't drink raw water or eat raw food; Wash your hands before and after meals; Brush your teeth carefully and regularly. Finally, a question that everyone is very concerned about is:

Since helicobacter pylori can spread through the mouth, can you still kiss?

It's best to cure Helicobacter pylori before kissing and protect the people we love, isn't it?