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Health Encyclopedia: Peptic Ulcers Highlights

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Peptic Ulcers Are Caused by an Infection

Both patients and doctors used to think that peptic ulcers resulted from high stress and other lifestyle factors, such as diet. A 1982 discovery found that an infection in the stomach caused by Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) bacterium is actually the usual culprit. This discovery meant that eradicating the bacterium could enable patients to be cured by medication instead of suffering from a chronic, often recurring painful condition. In 2006, r...

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Expert & Community Posts

Straight Talk About MRI's

By Christina Lasich, MD , Health Expert

...the corner. Treating pain is not like treating an infection; find a bug and get an antibiotic... Read more »

Chronic Pain Damages Brain

By Karen Lee Richards , Health Expert

...discovered a clue that may help explain why chronic pain patients also often suffer with sleep... Read more »

Dr. Eisner Answers Your GERD Questions: Throat and Ear Pain

By Todd Eisner , Health Expert

...throat and hoarseness as well as ear pain and even ear infections, other more serious conditions... Read more »

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Health Guide

Foot Pain: Causes

...can cause pain, loss of sensation, and tingling in the feet, and can increase the susceptibility for infection and foot ulcers.Blood pressure is the force applied against the walls of the arteries... Read more »

Erectile Dysfunction (Impotence): Other Treatments

...restore or improve the function of a penile prosthesis in patients with a failed device.)Complications. Infection is the major concern with these devices. Redness and fever often accompany a... Read more »

Sickle Cell Disease: Complications

...medication was withdrawn than those treated with opioids alone. Because steroids can suppress the body's infection fighters, they should not be given to patients with bacterial infections or any... Read more »

Genital Herpes: The Basics

...genital herpes is caused by HSV type 2. Most people have no or minimal symptoms from HSV-1 or HSV-2 infection. When symptoms do occur, they usually appear as one or more blisters on or around the... Read more »

Peptic Ulcers: Risk Factors

...once were. Research suggests that ulcer rates have even declined in areas with widespread H. pylori infection. The increased use of proton pump inhibitor drugs may be responsible for this... Read more »

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Prevacid Oral Uses and How to Use

...treat certain types of ulcers caused by bacterial infection. How To Use Take this medication by... Read more »

Prevacid Oral Uses and How to Use

...treat certain types of ulcers caused by bacterial infection. How To Use Take this medication by... Read more »

Prevacid Oral Uses and How to Use

...treat certain types of ulcers caused by bacterial infection. How To Use Take this medication by... Read more »

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