Peptic Ulcer Cure, Antibiotic neither Sippy Diet nor Rest from Stress!

Peptic ulcers are aching sore in the gastrointestinal tract. It gives symptoms of loss of appetite, abdominal pain, weight loss and nausea.

The treatment for this infirmity took some time for medical scientists to work out.

Long before now, complaint to doctor of signs of peptic ulcer, will probably be followed by advice that you should avoid coffee, spicy foods, and alcohol, and also that you should manage your stress. In the early twentieth century, the medical world thought peptic ulcers were caused by what you ate and drank, and by stress.

In 1915, Dr. Bertram W. Sippy formulated the “Sippy diet” for taking care of peptic ulcers. Dr. Sippy advised ulcers patients to take little amounts of cream and milk every hour so as to neutralize stomach acid. And then, increasingly, introduce soft bland foods with frequent meal times.

For a period this diet sometimes worked, fooling both patients and doctors. However, the disappearance of peptic ulcer symptoms was likely the effect of having a full stomach all the time, as the symptoms more often crop up when the stomach is empty.

In the long run, the Sippy diet did not heal peptic ulcers and yoward the end of 1960s scientists discovered the diet was linked with a high increase in heart disease because of its high saturated fat content.

In the 1980s, Barry Marshall and Robin WarrenCurrey - Australian physicians (link), in their hypothesis titled:

Ulcers—The Culprit Is H. Pylori!

proposed that the cause of ulcers was bacteria that could live in the acidic medium of the stomach and small intestine.

Marshall infected himself with the H. pylori bacteria to prove his point. Some days later he had sore tissue in his stomach. The presence of H. pylori was confirmed. He later took an antibiotic and the symptoms of bacteria infection faded.

In 1994, the National Institutes of Health had a summit on the cause of peptic ulcers. There was scientific agreement that H. pylori cause most peptic ulcers and that patients should be treated with antibiotics.

In 1996, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first antibiotic that could be used to treat patients with peptic ulcers.

Therefore peptic ulcers are a curable condition calling for treatment with antibiotics and not antacid medications nor changing of diet and reduction of stress.

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