Helicobacter pylori sounds like a very powerful bacteria, parents in the care of the baby, a little careless, the baby is also easy to be infected. So what are the symptoms of baby infected with Helicobacter pylori? How to treat it? So for parents, we must develop scientific and reasonable feeding habits, so as to eliminate the possibility of infection from the root.
Symptoms of Helicobacter pylori infection in infants
It has been found that repeated abdominal pain, anorexia and emaciation are the three main symptoms of Helicobacter pylori infection in children. So when the child appears abdominal pain, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, belching, acid regurgitation, hematemesis, bloody stool, malnutrition, constipation, early satiety and other symptoms, should first consider whether there is Helicobacter pylori infection, do not be careless!
Helicobacter pylori is transmitted by mouth to mouth.
1. Family meals
Chinese residents are generally not used to separate meals. Family and friends eat together without public chopsticks. If you give me a chopstick, I will give you a chopstick. This is the process of infection. Helicobacter pylori infection has the characteristics of family aggregation, so as long as one person in the family is infected with Helicobacter pylori, it is easy to infect other people in the process of eating together!
2. Eat and feed the children
Now many families are old people taking care of their children. The feeding concept of the older generation is somewhat different from that of our young people. In particular, some old people are afraid that the children will not bite, so they chew the food before feeding the children, just as we mentioned in the news at the beginning. Helicobacter pylori is the easiest way to spread mouth to mouth, once the elderly infected with this bacteria, it is very easy to infect children.
3. Kiss the child mouth to mouth
Some time ago, a news report about sister-in-law kissing Xiao Qi from mouth to mouth has aroused netizens' criticism. Most people think that adults can't directly kiss children's mouth, so there is no sense of sexual concept. In fact, the most serious thing about mouth to mouth kissing a child is unsanitary! Studies have shown that traces of Helicobacter pylori can also be found in saliva. If adults have been infected with this pathogen, they will naturally be unobstructed when kissing children.
4. Do not brush teeth, do not pay attention to oral hygiene
Many people brush their teeth in the morning without knowing that H. pylori can grow and reproduce on dental plaque and dental caries. Especially for children, as long as they begin to grow teeth, it is better to cultivate the habit of keeping oral hygiene as soon as possible, such as gargling after meals, teaching them to brush teeth after one and a half years old, and not eating snacks before going to bed.
5. Eating stimulating food for a long time can easily stimulate the gastric mucosa, resulting in the low body resistance of the stomach, thus easily leading to the invasion of Helicobacter pylori. Stimulating food for Helicobacter pylori antibody infection, although not immediate, but it is imperceptible, can not be ignored. Therefore, the family diet should be light, especially the children during the long tooth change!
How does baby infect Helicobacter pylori to do
1. Some children with Helicobacter pylori infection can be cured without treatment, if the baby does not appear any signs of infection, parents do not need to panic, there is no need to take the baby to the hospital for examination.
2. If the baby has a clinical manifestation of stomach discomfort and is confirmed to be infected, the baby needs to take medicine and sterilize according to the doctor's advice. Usually develop good health habits, to avoid being infected.
3. Children's immediate family relatives and parents who have gastrointestinal cancer need to be examined for Helicobacter pylori; children with repeated refractory iron deficiency anemia, indeed, can not find other reasons, so they need to be checked for Helicobacter pylori.
4. Helicobacter pylori eradication often occurs after the age of 18, according to the general choice of eradication in children at the age of 16.