Many parents are very worried when children have peptic ulcers caused by the bacterium Helicobacter Pylori (HP). So how to recognize this disease in a child?

Causes of peptic ulcers caused by H. pylori infection in children

H. pylori are capable of surviving and causing disease in a highly acidic gastric environment. The disease can be transmitted orally-orally and fecal-orally, from humans and flies.

It is increasingly common for children to be infected with H. pylori bacteria, especially in developing countries, including ours. Because of living conditions, the ability and understanding of H. pylori is very limited.

Children infected with H. pylori are mainly contagious in families, and studies have shown that if a parent or caregiver is infected with H. pylori bacteria, it is easy to spread it to children.

Consequence

When young children are infected with H. pylori bacteria, it can cause some stomach diseases such as gastroduodenitis, peptic ulcer, more severe gastrointestinal bleeding and stomach cancer, but this possibility is rare in young children.

Signs of infection with H. pylori in a child

In children, the sign to recognize whether or not there is an infection with H. pylori is often much more difficult than in adults because it has no characteristic signs. 

For children, the most frequent problems are: 

- Gastric mucosal tumors, peptic ulcers... with signs quite separate from adults.

- Pain around the umbilical region, epigastric pain, located between the navel and sternum. 

- Heartburn. 

- Vomiting blood or passing black stools.

In some cases, babies will not have any special signs, but only paleness, fatigue, anemia of unknown cause.

How is the treatment?

Treating H. pylori in young children is often difficult, and doctors need to consider whether to treat H. pylori or just symptomatic treatment. Because the treatment of HP requires prolonged use of antibiotics, it can cause harm to the health of young children. Therefore, it can be seen that the treatment of H. pylori in children is still very challenging for doctors.

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