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atombender a day ago

> ulcers are bacter

To be clear, some peptic ulcers are caused by H. pylori, but not all ulcers.

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hinkley 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The guy who won the Nobel prize for giving himself an ulcer estimated it as 90%, which is very comfortably “most”. If that has been drastically estimated down I hadn’t heard.

Also don’t abuse advil, kids. OTC painkillers can burn a hole in your digestive tract. I in fact know someone missing a few feet of intestine because of chronic back pain and overuse of non narcotic painkillers.

	▲	Calavar 17 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> The guy who won the Nobel prize for giving himself an ulcer estimated it as 90% That's worldwide. In developed countries the proportion is closer to 10 to 15% [1, 2] [1] https://www.jwatch.org/na50875/2020/02/24/prevalence-h-pylor... [2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31972622/
	▲	jjtheblunt 20 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I did the oops too much Advil on myself naively over years. Gastritis and resolves once the cause is figured out but scared me to respect otc meds more.

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dekhn a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah the real outcome of all this was "stress is not a cause of ulcers and other GI issues, but it can increase the negative impact" and "some uclers and other GI issues can be treated by antibiotics".

	▲	hinkley 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Stress of course makes pretty much all multicellular organisms more susceptible to pathogens and environmental toxins. But it’s the trigger not the bullet.