Symptoms of Helicobacter pylori infection in infants

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Since Australian scholars Marshall and Warren successfully isolated and cultured Helicobacter pylori (HP) from gastric mucosa of patients with chronic gastritis in 1982, a large number of studies from adults have confirmed that HP is related to many upper gastrointestinal diseases. HP is the main pathogenic factor of chronic active gastritis and an important factor of peptic ulcer. Long term HP infection is also associated with gastric adenocarcinoma and gastric mucosa associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma. Clinical studies have found that HP eradication can significantly reduce the recurrence rate of peptic ulcer disease, and can reverse or even disappear the course of gastric MALT lymphoma; It can also improve the symptoms of refractory dyspepsia in some patients with chronic gastritis. It can be said that the discovery and research of HP has pushed the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases to a new level. Let's talk about the symptoms of Helicobacter pylori infection in infants

Symptoms of Helicobacter pylori infection in infants

1. Children with chronic gastritis: there are different degrees of dyspepsia, the degree of clinical manifestations is different, and the course of disease is prolonged. The main performance is repeated abdominal pain, no obvious regularity, usually aggravated after eating. The location of pain is not exact, mostly around the umbilicus. The symptoms of older children are similar to those of adults. They often complain of epigastric pain, followed by belching, early satiety, nausea, epigastric discomfort and acid reflux

2. When eating hard, cold, spicy food or getting cold, the temperature drops, it can cause or aggravate symptoms. Some children may have loss of appetite, fatigue, emaciation and dizziness, and those with gastric erosion may have black stool

3. Most of the signs are not obvious. The tenderness can be located in the middle and upper abdomen or around the umbilicus, with a wide range. With the increase of age, the clinical manifestations are close to that of adults. Abdominal pain above symptoms and around the umbilicus are the main symptoms. Sometimes there are nocturnal pain, or acid regurgitation, belching or chronic anemia. A few people show painless melena, fainting, or even shock.

matters needing attention

Prognosis: generally, the prognosis is good, but it is easy to relapse, and the nutritional status and growth of children will be affected by the disease. Prevention: due to the high infection rate of HP in developing countries and the difficulty of eradication and recurrence, researchers began to develop high-efficiency HP vaccine, trying to fundamentally solve the infection and transmission of HP.?