Studies have pointed out that H. pylori lives in the pyloric region of the human stomach and is one of the most common bacterial pathogens. This bacterial infection first causes chronic gastritis and leads to gastric ulcers and gastric atrophy, and in severe cases, develops into gastric cancer …… So, many people are screened positive for H. pylori, and the moment they get the report card, many of them panic and keep asking their doctors, “Am I going to get gastric cancer? How can I kill these germs?” Will H. pylori cause stomach cancer? There is a relationship between the two, but there is no inevitability. H. pylori is a spiral-shaped bacterium found in the bulb of the stomach and duodenum, and it was not discovered until the 1980s. There are scientific studies that confirm that H. pylori is the main causative agent of chronic gastritis, and up to 90-95% of patients with chronic gastritis are positive for H. pylori, far more than other populations. Also if gastroscopy is performed on H. pylori-positive people, they all suffer from gastritis to varying degrees. According to statistics, China is a large country with H. pylori infection, with up to 50-80% of the general population infected with H. pylori. However, the course of gastric cancer progresses over a long period of time clinically, so being positive for H. pylori does not mean that you will definitely get gastric cancer in the future, and being positive for H. pylori is only one part of the development of gastric cancer; human factors and environmental factors are also crucial. How much do you know about the ways to prevent H. pylori infection? 1.Mouth-to-mouth transmission is the main way It is currently believed that mouth-to-mouth transmission is the main way of transmission. For example, kissing between lovers, therefore, H. pylori is also called “kissing disease”; there are parents chew food and then feed it to their children; sharing utensils and so on may spread. 2, backward areas H. pylori infection rate is significantly higher From the current data, H. pylori belongs to the typical “rich and poor” disease, the infection rate in developing countries is much higher than in developed countries. In developing countries like China, the infection rate in the backward areas of the mainland is significantly higher than in developed coastal areas. The data in recent years also suggest that the overall infection rate in China is decreasing, which should have a great relationship with the continuous improvement of our economic level. 3, multi-level preventive measures From a personal point of view, infected with Helicobacter pylori, stomach disease, should be standardized treatment, not self-righteous indiscriminate treatment. In order to prevent infection, the daily diet to develop good hygiene habits – before meals and after the stool to wash hands such “cliché”, but also continue to talk; in addition, to inhibit the activity of H. pylori, to protect the stomach, you can usually also use more clove tea leaves to drink water.