Bacteria - Helicobacter pylori - Ulcers

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Drinking the urea solution:

Blowing out into a test tube.

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H. pylori breath test – gas chromatograph reads results.

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How the test works.

Ammonia identified in exhaled air.

This is due to H. pylori conversion of

Urea into ammonia.

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Results that provide further proof of the connection between H pylori and ulcers.

H pylori removed within 2 weeks after taking antibiotics!

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Communicating their findings

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Book: The Ease & Difficulty of a New Discovery.

Author: Robin Warren

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Acceptance at last!

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Nobel prize announced - 2005

From initial discovery in

1981 until acknowledgment

by the scientific community

in 2005!

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H. pylori in the blood

Spread by poverty

and down through

the families!

Now thought

to be responsible for stomach cancer and heart disease. Remove

H pylori and reduce the risk!

Further findings…

Simple prevention!

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