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Question
Hello doctor,
I'm on treatment for HP but I've been taking medicine recently but still feel pain in my stomach. Ask the doctor if it's okay to have a stomach ache while being treated for HP bacteria?
Anonymous customer
Answer
Answered by Specialist I Dong Xuan Ha - Gastroenterologist - Department of Medical Examination & Internal Medicine, Vinmec Ha Long International Hospital.
Hello friend,
To the question "What's wrong with stomach pain while being treated for HP bacteria?", the doctor would like to answer as follows:
Abdominal pain is a common symptom of peptic ulcer disease. .
According to the doctor, because of abdominal pain, you just went to the doctor, after excluding other diseases causing pain in the abdomen, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, H.Pylori test and positive H.Pylori results . Your doctor prescribes medicine for you to kill H.Pylori. However, you did not add the doctor's diagnosis, inflammation or peptic ulcer.
Usually, in the common diagnosis is gastric mucosal inflammation, positive H.Pylori or duodenal ulcer and depending on the extent of damage, the doctor will have a specific treatment plan for each case.
In your case, you have a stomach or duodenal ulcer and are positive for H.Pylori. So here there are 02 problems:
Inflammation - stomach ulcers - duodenal pain. However, this disease is caused by many causes, of which H.Pylori infection is only one of the causes. Although this is an important cause, it is not the only one. H.Pylori infection. You are on treatment to eradicate H.Pylori, so your doctor's plan will be to treat the main cause first, in cases where the endoscopic damage is not too severe and the pain is still present even if you have used up the insecticide H.Pylori.
If your pain symptoms do not increase compared to before taking the drug, you can rest assured to take the medicine, finish the course of H.Pylori eradication, and then you must immediately contact your doctor, discuss further symptoms that remain. for further treatment. If your pain worsens, you should see your doctor right away.
For example, with a diagnosis of H.Pylori duodenal ulcer – positive, when the ulcer is not at risk of bleeding, the doctor will focus on eradicating H.Pylori first (the course is usually 14 days). With this time, the ulcer will not be able to heal and of course you will still be in pain. Next, the doctor will give medicine to heal the ulcer and when the ulcer heals, the pain will go away.
If you still have questions about HP bacteria, you can go to the hospital of Vinmec Health System for further examination and advice. Thank you for trusting and sending questions to Vinmec. Wishing you lots of health.
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