Hurrah for the scientists from Australia who were at first laughed at and chided for their work on the theory turned fact that a bug treatable with antibiotics was the cause of all the pain and misery of peptic type ulcers! I went through this about 9 years ago. In fact I just ran into a leftover bung of the medicine I took. The symptoms were painful stomach aches and pains which were somewhat soothed by anti-acids, baking soda, eating crackers and so on. When I mentioned this to Dr. Brunner, my personal physician, he immediately tested me for the varmints. Sure enough, they showed up in excessive numbers. They apparently like to live in and feed on the stomach's protective mucus liner exposing the delicate tissues to the harsh digestive juices and thus cause the pain. After only a few days of medicine the pain was gone and for good! Absolutely amazing! Too bad it took all these years for the prize folks to name and honor these these guys for their work! Beware, the bugs can be transmitted orally!
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/2005/index.html The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease" was recenetly awarded to Barry J. Marshall J. Robin Warren
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Nine years later, this is still really gross.
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