Whether a child infected with Helicobacter pylori needs treatment depends mainly on whether the child has a combined peptic ulcer and clinical symptoms, if there are no clinical symptoms generally do not recommend treatment, if there are symptoms or combined peptic ulcer is the need for treatment.
Eradication of H. pylori treatment is usually done using the quadruple eradication method, which requires a combination of four medications, including two antibiotics. Eradication therapy may lead to treatment failure, as well as complications such as antibiotic-associated diarrhea.
Therefore, eradication therapy needs to be weighed against the benefits and risks to the baby, and a comprehensive judgment is needed. It is currently believed that if the infection is simple and has no clinical manifestations, treatment is not routinely recommended.
On the contrary, if the child is infected with Helicobacter pylori and symptoms of gastritis, gastric ulcer and other diseases is the need for treatment, follow the doctor’s advice to take the quadruple therapy eradication of Helicobacter pylori, and regular review of Helicobacter pylori infection, because Helicobacter pylori is very easy to recur after the patient’s antibiotic resistance.
Children infected with Helicobacter pylori still need to follow the doctor’s advice, not self-medication.