Welcome to Ulcer Treatments
When you hear people talking about ulcers it usually sound as though they are talking about something that can occur from an over abundance of stress. They often say things like “don’t worry so much or you’ll get an ulcer”. This is because the ulcers they are usually talking about are peptic ulcers, and at one point it was believed that they were caused by an over abundance of stress. However, thanks two a couple of curious scientists, we know better.
What exactly are ulcers? Well, that is actually a very easy question. An ulcer is a sore. This means that it is a wound that is open and painful. Peptic ulcers, the ones that are most commonly referred to, like in the phrase above, are the painful ulcers that form in the small intestines towards the upper part. This is called the duodenum.
So what exactly is it that causes an ulcer if it isn’t stress? Well for close to one hundred year it was truly believed that ulcers were caused by stress and foods that are very spicy. Barry Marshall and Robin Warren were that two scientist that made the fantastic discovery in 1982 that those were not at all what caused ulcers.
In the year of 1982 these two scientists were able to discover that it was a bacterium that was causing most of the ulcers. This discovery meant that these painful afflictions could actually be treated with medicine. The bacteria that causes so many people this pain is called Helicobacter pylori, more commonly called H. pylori.
Now I bet your wondering how it is that this one particular bacterium is able to cause all these problems when there are probably thousands of other kinds in your stomach. Well this particular bacteria weakens your stomach and upper small intestines first, then your stomach acid gets into the sensitive tissue, ad finally both acid and bacteria work to irritate this tissue until the ulcers, or sores, are formed.
If your stomach begins to burn really bad, there is a chance that you have an ulcer. The only way to know for sure is to go to the doctor and get it checked out; not doing so can make things a lot worse.
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