“Is your gastric acid eroding your stomach wall? Does infection with this microbe make it worse?” A peptic ulcer is a lesion or discontinuation in the lining of your stomach or the upper part of your small intestine. It happens…
Doctor, what is Helicobacter Pylori? H. pylori infection occurs when a type of bacteria called Helicobacter pylori infects your stomach. The H. pylori infection transmission mechanism is oral-oral or fecal-oral, as well as through contaminated water. This usually happens during…
The causes of vomiting blood, or haemetemesis, are a myriad ranging from the most common to the least heard of possibilities. This article, however, concentrates on two issues that plague the community worldwide – bleeding peptic ulcer disease (PUD) and…