The bacteria H. pylori (Helicobacter pylori) usually don't cause problems in childhood. However, if left untreated the bacteria can lead to digestive illnesses, including gastritis (the irritation and inflammation of the lining of the stomach), peptic ulcer disease (characterized by sores that form in the stomach or the upper part of the small intestine, called the duodenum), and even stomach cancer later in life.
But even though the bacteria can cause these illnesses, experts believe that most H. pylori infections are "silent" and produce no symptoms.
The bacteria are found everywhere in the world, but especially in developing countries, where up to 10% of children and 80% of adults can have laboratory evidence of an H. pylori infection - usually without having any symptoms.
In industrialized countries, the infection is rare in children, and only about 40% of adults are infected. The risk of infection is higher for those who live in overcrowded or unsanitary conditions.
What Are the Signs and Symptoms?Anyone, including a child, can have an H. pylori infection without knowing it. When the bacteria do cause symptoms, they're usually either symptoms of gastritis or peptic ulcer disease.
In children, symptoms of gastritis may include nausea, vomiting, and frequent complaints about pain in the abdomen. However, these symptoms are seen in many childhood illnesses.
H. pylori, which used to be called Campylobacter pylori, can also cause peptic ulcers (commonly known as stomach ulcers). In older children and adults, the most common symptom of peptic ulcer disease is a gnawing or burning pain in the abdomen, usually in the area below the ribs and above the navel. This pain typically gets worse when someone with ulcers has an empty stomach and improves as soon as he or she eats food, drinks milk, or takes antacid medicine.
Children who have peptic ulcer disease can have ulcers that bleed, causing hematemesis (bloody vomit or vomit that looks like coffee grounds) or melena (stool that's black, bloody, or looks like tar). Younger children with peptic ulcer disease may not have symptoms as clear-cut as those of older children, and their illness may be harder to diagnose.
Is It Contagious?Scientists suspect that H. pylori infection may be contagious, because the infection seems to run in families and is more common where people live in crowded or unsanitary conditions. Although research suggests that infection is passed from person to person, exactly how this happens isn't really known.
How Is It Diagnosed?Doctors can make the diagnosis of an H. pylori infection by using many different types of tests. Your child's doctor may:
look at the stomach lining directly with an instrument called an endoscope. This procedure is performed under sedation and involves inserting an endoscope - a small, flexible tube with a tiny camera on the end - down your child's throat and into the stomach and duodenum. The doctor may then take samples of the lining to be checked in the laboratory for microscopic signs of infection and for H. pylori bacteria.
do blood tests, which can detect the presence of H. pylori antibodies. Blood tests are common, although they typically aren't as accurate for children as they are for adults.
do breath tests, which can detect carbon broken down by H. pylori after the patient drinks a solution. But breath tests are also used mostly in adults.
How Is It Treated?
Doctors treat H. pylori infections using antibiotics. Because a single antibiotic may not kill the bacteria, your child may be given a combination of antibiotics.
If your child has symptoms of bleeding from the stomach or small intestine, these symptoms will be treated in a hospital.
Because H. pylori infection can be cured with antibiotics, the most important home treatment is to give your child any prescribed antibiotic medicine on schedule for as long as your child's doctor has directed. Your child's doctor may also give antacids or acid-suppressing drugs to neutralize or block production of stomach acids.
One way to help soothe the abdominal pain of H. pylori infections is by following a regular meal schedule. This means planning meals so that your child's stomach doesn't remain empty for long periods. Eating five or six smaller meals each day may be best, and your child should take some time to rest after each meal.
It's also important to avoid giving your child aspirin, aspirin-containing medicines, ibuprofen, or anti-inflammatory drugs because these may irritate the stomach or cause stomach bleeding.
12/12(Tues) afternoon 3pm to 4pm, heavy rain & strong wind blow until all the trees behind my house all Collapses.My father lovely tree “artocarpus” (malay call cempedak or nangka) oso Collapses. no cempedak anymore:( My neighbour Big Tree oso same condition, Collapses!! lucky no one is injured.
词曲：作词：林唯/蔡旻佑 作曲：蔡旻佑 编曲：洪信杰
my 1st time playing bass on the stage, i'm still in learning condition but the song leader asking me to play coz they dun mind i play wrongly, really feel my finger a bit cacat haha!! can't play smoothly i still need time to learn for it.Need to pay more attention if i wanna to be a successful bassist
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Yesterday went to our old long house with my mum to do clean up,on the way doing clean up, mum found my pillow which i use when i'm kids, haha!! mum take it out and show me, i look on it feel funny, then i ask mum to hold it i snap photo keke!!!Then ask mum to throw it, coz i no longer use it. 
bought a new Nike sandal from ISETAN, coz got sport fair hehe quite cheap compare to normal price, wait for so long at last GET IT!! YEAH YEAH!!!
so old only learn piano, feel shame of myself haha!! see my teacher standing beside very fierce looking at me, hope can play some nice songs soon. Hard to cope coz finger all keras like batu liao, compare to those kids their finger very soft can play easily.But, i can play david tao songs only playing wif chord haha!
10/8 frens of my celebrate my b'day at cheras cafe house.The food there quite nice oh!! but i forgot the shop name haha. Actually this day we celebrate 2 person b'day coz we not manage to celebrate for her. Ming Xia b'day is on 27/7. Then we suggest them to celebrate together on this day. hehe!!
My b'day present haha!! tis year i ate a lots of cake but forgot to snap down the photo. Guess wat i have for my b'day?? hehe got wallet, watch, webcam & etc.
ytd night go to my old house clean those things, coz the developer wan to take back the land.I found something from there hehe!! my grandmum keep all my childhood toys inside a box when i open and see jus remember wat i play last time, yoyo & etc haha!
05/08 My earlier b’day celebration with myfers..this cake make by a sister call xiao wei. Orange butter cake,Feel touched.Guess how old am I tis year?? haha!! Time really fly One year older loh, but wat I always say, Age is just a number hehe!! Anywhere thanks a lots for that night. No worry I will be guai guai lui haha!!
This is my niece, her name Tiang Tze Xin we call her little star.She is super naughty like to cry and always stick to her mum if you carry her she will cry non stop till her mum come to carry her, stubborn girl. Don't like others to carried her. BUT hapenning wednesday 2/8 i bring her to pasar malam haha finally she let me carry, kids really clever, if u bring them out always, they will let u carry for the rest of the time liao. YTD i fetch her out to jalan jalan oso, she is so enjoyed sitting inside the car. I manage to buy her heart hiak hiak hiak!!!!
This cute bottle starbucks coffee never see before in malaysia. When i went to Hong Kong i saw it at those 7-eleven shop WAH!! i quickly go and grap and drink it haha, coz i like the bottle not the coffee, feel weird ho? anywhere all my group members bought and drink there, then they all give me the empty bottle, i bring it back to m'sia. hiak hiak hiak!! 
