[quote=ocrenter][quote=earlyretirement][quote=spdrun]H. Pylori is 30-40% prevalent in Americans — no need to have picked it up while traveling.
Susceptibility is likely more down to genetics and diet than location. Good that you got rid of it; it’s reputed to cause ulcers, at least in some people.[/quote]
Ah.. I didn’t realize it was so prevalent in Americans as well. They said they rarely see it here. I guess because most people are asymptomatic? I’m not sure.
All I know is I’m darn glad they diagnosed it and I can go back to eating In-N-Out burgers and other junk food that I love so much! LOL.
For a while there I didn’t want to eat as there was so much pain all the time. All I know is now I’m back in FULL force clogging up my arteries. It feels good.[/quote]
That peaked my interest so I looked up prevalence rate per the world GI organization (WGO). Yes US and Western Europe are at 30-40%, Asia is at 60-70%, Latin America and Africa are more like 80-90%. So while it is possible to simply just get Hpylori in the US, if a native born US citizen was in Latin America or Africa for a few years, came back and got diagnosed, I’ll put my money on him getting the bacteria from the travel instead of from the US.[/quote]
Yes, that is what the doctors that I saw said. They said almost definitely I picked this up abroad. Again, know nothing about this. Just going off what the doctors I saw said.
I’d rather trust my docs info vs. some random posts from armchair docs on Piggington. LOL.
Fortunately, none of my family had it. I got paranoid for a while after I was diagnosed with it. Every time my kids said their stomach hurt, I would take them to Kaiser for an H. Pylori test! LOL. (Well, exaggeration…just the one time for each kid…LOL).
But none of them had it. Just pops.
Maybe my immune system is getting weak in my advanced old age! I hate getting old. It sucks.
