New YORK (Reuters Health) – eradicate the bacteria H.
pylori would provide some relief to people with indigestion,
even if they do not have detectable, ulcers, he suggested a new
study.
For people which changes do not work you in
lifestyle, how to modify your diet, exercise and
reduce stress, Brazilian researchers now suggest
test with a combination of antacid drugs and
antibiotics.
Experts randomly allocated 404 patients with dyspepsia
functional (indigestion) to a group that received only omeprazole or
to another that joined the drug antibiotics amoxicillin and
clarithromycin, during 10 days.
A year later, 49 per cent of patients in the
cohort treated with antibiotics said that their symptoms had
improved at least 50 per cent, compared with a 37 by
percent among people in the group control.
According to a report on the study of the team of Dr. Luiz
Edmundo Mazzoleni, of the Hospital de ClÃnicas of Porto Alegre in
Brazil, eight patients would have to be treated with
antibiotics so that a patient experience this type of
improvement.
Previous studies threw mixed conclusions about the
effect of eradicating the H. pylori, which affects half of the
world population, according to the authors of the research,
published in Archives of Internal Medicine.
While their findings come only from a hospital, and by
therefore may not be universal, suggest controlling the
the presence of the bacteria and treat it in people who have
stomach pain and not have ulcer.
However, the authors urged that occur more
studies to know if the strategy is feasible in terms of
cost and effectiveness.
In an editorial, Dr. Paul Moayyedi, the McMaster
University in Hamilton, Canada, indicates that there is now evidence
strong that to eradicate the H. pylori can help a small
Group of patients.
“The challenge will be to establish the mechanism that underlies this
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effect in order to move forward and try to better our patients
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with this condition common and costly”, concluded Moayyedi.
Source: Archives of Internal Medicine, online 28 of
November 2011
