ulcer cure?

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I heard on a tape today where a wholistic healer said that ulcers were caused by bacteria and lack of a trace element, I can't remember exactly how it was prononuced, but it was obeviously the element that "pepto bismo" was named after. Can any of you college types chime in here with a yea or nea?

-- mitch hearn (moopups1@aol.com), June 20, 2001

Answers

Hi Mitch, I saw a news report about the bacteria several years ago, and right after that alot of the prescription drugs for ulcers became over the counter products for heartburn, I think that it was 1st discovered and cured in pigs, as I recall it was a doctor in Australia. He drank a beaker of the bacteria to prove it, got ulcers, and cured it.

-- Thumper (slrldr@aol.com), June 20, 2001.

Not all, but more than half, stomach and intestinal ulcers are caused by (from memory) helicobacter pylori. Took over ten years to convince "not all, but more than half" doctors that this was the case. That couldn't possibly have been because you substituted a two- week course of antibiotics for years of continuing treatment (and medication from the drug companies), could it? There's been some evidence lately that this bacteria may also be implicated in some heart disease and hardening of the arteries.

I assume the element you're talking about is bismuth, but I don't know anything about that side of it.

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), June 20, 2001.


mitch, not all ulcers are caused by the same thing. I do know that I was particularly prone, as was my whole extended family, to ulcers and bladder infections. I began drinking cranberry juice every day (or eat blueberries as they have the same property in them that causes the stomach lining and bladder lining to stop the bacteria from implanting) and I have not had an ulcer or infection since. Perhaps they contain that missing trace element??

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), June 20, 2001.

No new information but just a comment. Isn't it remarkable that until just a few years ago, EVERYONE thought that stomach ulcers was caused by high acidity? We land a man on the moon but the medical community doesn't do something about ulcers until 2000!... and then, the medical folks would not accept the Australian doctor's claim about bacteria being the cause until he proved it. Every wonder what other ailments continue to be treated the same way year after year, death after death until someone is unwilling to do something about it? Kind of sounds like the Lorenzo Oil story. Wouldn't a concerted, centralized, international group for each type of major disease or disorder be able to focus its attention to resolving these problems. If perhaps we had the same committment, resources and attention to these medical problems as we had for landing on the moon, perhaps we would be a lot further along today in curing mongoloid syndrome, diabetes, AIDS etc.

-- JON HOJNAR (EVERGREEN.FS@WORLDNET.ATT.NET), January 07, 2002.

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