I was diagnosed with the H Pylori a year ago. I was prescribed antibotics. After returning to my doctor, I asked if it was gone and I was told that once you have this infection, you will always have it. I was told that I needed to control it with my diet. Is this true?

Basically,
You need to take probiotics or eat yogurt to replace the good bacteria and follow a diet that eliminates the problem foods
Or you will keep having problems
Avoid foods high in salt.
I think you want the macrobiotic diet or

Lesson 18 - Acid - Alkaline Balance


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Originally Posted by gomer58

I was diagnosed with the H Pylori a year ago. I was prescribed antibotics. After returning to my doctor, I asked if it was gone and I was told that once you have this infection, you will always have it. I was told that I needed to control it with my diet. Is this true?

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This can become a chronic infection if left untreated, and sometimes (but often not) may lead to ulcers. If you were prescribed treatment, I presume it was to eradicate it, and success rate of most treatments regimens lie between 90-95%. There are ways to check if the infection was cleared, including endoscopy (invasive), C13 urea breath test, and more recently stool testing (although this one not widely available yet). Blood test looking for antibodies is not reliable to check for clearance of infection.

What Does HpSa detect


Stool / feces for h pylori antigen can test non invasively whether therapy was "curative"

Has a 95 % sensitivity means it will only have a 5% false negative rate.

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Originally Posted by gomer58

I was diagnosed with the H Pylori a year ago. I was prescribed antibotics. After returning to my doctor, I asked if it was gone and I was told that once you have this infection, you will always have it. I was told that I needed to control it with my diet. Is this true?

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Firstly, Helicobacter pylori is not a disease or condition, it is a bacteria that causes a number of infections. And with any bacteria, it can be killed with the right antibiotics and treatment, although H. pylori has become resistant to a lot of regular antibiotics. Example, Have you heard of MRSA? It's the same principle. MRSA is just plain old staph, but the normal medicines do not work to kill it because it has mutated and evolved over time. H. pylori is just a little hard to kill because once it's in you, it builds up resistance.

Changing your diet or eating habits will alleviate the pain you are feeling (I assume you have an ulcer or such) and if your doctor suggests it, I would follow it very rigidly.

I hope this was helpful.