AltMedAngel: Alternative Medicine Angel

H. pylori is an acid-loving bacteria. It thrives on the acid in your stomach. Therefore logic dictates that if you dilute your stomach acid, the bacteria will not be able to survive. I never heard of H pylori before getting it a few years ago soon after eating a piece of Kentucky Fried Chicken in one of their not-the-cleanest-in-the-world establishments. It got progressively worse for 3 weeks until finally I could not stand up.

After being educated by my doctor about what it was, I cured a very bad case in three days simply by drinking water... lots of water. I started by drinking two 12 oz. glasses every hour for three or four hours and then went to one glass every hour for the rest of the day. As the pain subsided I lengthened the time between drinks to two hours, then three, etc. until I reached three times a day. 

I am 5'4" and weigh 135 pounds. If your stomach is larger you may need to drink more water. If your stomach is smaller, you may need less. You need as much as it takes to dilute your stomach acid and change the pH in your stomach. I also did not eat any meat or foods that need a lot of acid to digest -- since I obviously did not have enough stomach acid to digest them. I fasted the first day, ate only chicken noodle soup the next day and stuck with alkaline foods for the last day... no acidic foods such as citrus or tomato sauce that would have put the acid back in my stomach. 

Of course it goes without saying that you should never drink that much water within an hour of eating.  That means you drink the water, wait an hour, eat, wait another hour, and drink more water. Otherwise the water will dilute your stomach acid and you won't have enough acid to digest your food.  That can cause a whole other set of problems.

If I had to do it again, I would have put Microhydrin in my water to make it more alkaline. I think the cure would have worked faster. I also would have put some bladderwrack in the water once or twice on the first day to act like a soap. As it was, it took about three days to completely rid myself of the problem. Between Saturday morning, when I saw my doctor who advised a blood test to verify the H pylori, and the following Wednesday, when his nurse called to confirm and tell me I needed three weeks of antibiotics, I was not only completely cured but I had stopped drinking water and been eating anything I wanted for at least 36 hours.

They could not believe it. So I took another blood test on Thursday to confirm and also to educate them on the benefit of logically thinking through a problem -- and proving that drugs are not always the answer.  

This article was written in 2002 and I have never had a recurrence of H. pylori.  -- Angel  (2006)

Since H. pylori was targeted as the cause of stomach ulcers several years ago, the total elimination of H. pylon from the body with antibiotic therapy has now become the accepted therapy for ulcers in the stomach and small intestine. What researchers are now discovering is that patients who have killed off all their H. pylori colonies are subsequently developing gastro-esophageal reflux and esophageal cancer. It seems that, while an overgrowth of H. pylon might contribute to stomach ulcers, normal populations of the bacteria provide a protective effect for the esophagus. [J Infect Dis 99;179(6):1523-30] [Am J Gastroenterol 00;95(9):2306-11]

Few people will ever connect the elimination of H. pylon with problems of the esophagus. The average person will take prescribed antibiotics to cure their ulcers. When they start having reflux problems or esophageal cancer, they'll never have a clue that the two are related.

H. pylon is not a new bacteria that has recently invaded our bodies. It has been in our intestinal tracts since the beginning of time. Just like all systems in nature, there has to be a balance. This is a perfect example of how little doctors really know about some of the more basic functions of the human body.

The following has nothing to do with H. pylori but everything to do with antibiotics. Over the last year or so there have been numerous articles in the press claiming that the regular use of antibiotics could provide protection against future heart attacks by treating any underlying infections.

New studies have found that antibiotics do not improve cardiovascular disease or protect against future heart attacks. Two such studies were recently presented at the scientific sessions of the American College of Cardiology in Atlanta, Georgia.

One study that was conducted at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angles gave antibiotics to 1,440 study participants, and could find no long-term benefits. Another study conducted by the pharmaceutical firm Pfizer involved 7,700 individuals with a history of heart disease and evidence of infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae (past studies have suggested that Chlamydia pneumoniae might be associated with heart disease).

The researchers gave the antibiotic azithromycin or a placebo to the patients for a period of three months and then monitored them for an additional two years. The benefit, if any, was minor, and even then was limited to the first six months of the period studied.

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