Two Australians saved 0.8 billion lives in China! So won the Nobel Prize!
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2017-08-22
2017-08-2216:41 Microbiology On December 10, 2005, the annual Nobel Prize Ceremony was held as scheduled in Stockholm, Sweden. When the dean of the Karolinska Institute announced the ownership of the medical award that year, the flash of the audience gathered on the two Australians. Rubin Warren (RobinWarren) and Barry Marshall (BarryMarshall), these two names will be solemnly recorded in history from that moment on-their understanding of "Helicobacterpylori-secluded."
2017-08-22 16:41 Microorganisms
On December 10, 2005, in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual Nobel Prize ceremony was held as scheduled. when the honored guest, president of the karolinska institute, announced the ownership of the medical award that year, the audience flashed,
All gathered in two Australians. The names Robin Warren and Barry Marshall will go down in history from that moment on--
Their discovery of "Helicobacter pylori-Helicobacter pylori" is hailed as one of the most important achievements of modern medicine, because this bacterium is by far the most infected, infectious and potentially carcinogenic bacterium in the world. If we can develop a cure for this bacteria, it will save countless lives!
As time goes by, it has been 12 years since two Australian scientists discovered Helicobacter pylori. In the past 12 years, the number of people infected with this bacterium in the whole western society has been declining year by year. In some developed countries, the infection has even been achieved for many years. This medical achievement, which benefits all mankind, is implemented in China in the opposite way!! According to the World Health Organization report quoted by People's Daily Online, as of 2017, the Helicobacter pylori infection rate in China has risen instead of falling, reaching 60% (that is, nearly 0.8 billion people have been infected!!), Globally, about half of the new and dead patients with gastric cancer due to Helicobacter pylori are from China!
Why is it that a bacterium discovered in 2005 can infect nearly 0.8 billion Chinese people 12 years later? Why is it that this bacterium, which is classified by the World Health Organization as a Class I carcinogen, can run amok over half of China, but we know nothing about it?
The story behind this, today is the time to tell! Humans have suffered from stomach problems for more than 58000 years, and the cause was not found until 1982! If you want to understand why so many people are infected with Helicobacter pylori, you must first understand the background of this bacterium. Studies have shown that this bacterium has been living in our stomachs for at least 58000 years, causing stomach problems for generations! However, it is strange that in such a long time, human beings have not found its existence!
The reason is that it is hidden in the tiny folds of the stomach. In the past, it was difficult to find its figure without sophisticated medical equipment! Second, because scientists feel that there is so much stomach acid in the stomach and the PH value is very high, how could there still be bacteria that can survive in that environment? So previously the medical community generally believed that it should be greasy, spicy and unclean food to stimulate the stomach, in order to treat stomach problems, must be taboo, at the same time to be light, to rely on nourishment.
However, such a method of "nourishing the stomach" often ends in failure, and some patients even fall into the root of the disease, get chronic gastritis, and be tortured by stomach pain for a lifetime! In the face of difficult stomach problems, the medical profession tried its best, but there was no good prescription. This state continued until 1982, when two Australian doctors, Rubin Warren and Barry Marshall, did not believe in this evil. They felt that there must be some unknown bacteria that could survive in gastric acid!
With this belief, they cultivated human gastric mucus and finally found the hidden Helicobacter pylori!
In 1984, the Lancet, an authoritative British medical journal, published this report. There was an upsurge in the study of Helicobacter pylori all over the world. There were countless research papers on Helicobacter pylori. People realized that the symptoms of gastritis and gastric ulcer, such as stomachache, sour swelling, nausea, vomiting, halitosis, etc., had nothing to do with stimulating food and nourishing the stomach, but Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium, was playing tricks!
See here, maybe you will not understand, just found a stomach bacteria, as for directly to the Nobel Prize?! In fact, discovering it is only the first step. The follow-up study of it by two Australian doctors, Rubin Warren and Barry Marshall, is the key to getting them the Nobel Prize! The most horrible bacteria: 3.5 billion people around the world are infected, one person is sick and the whole family suffers. It is the main cause of gastric cancer! After the extraction of Helicobacter pylori, the two Australian doctors actually did not pay attention to it at all, let alone compete for the Nobel Prize, because their original purpose was to prove that this bacterium does exist! However, with the in-depth study of it, the two doctors have discovered more amazing facts! These facts make their hair stand on end, their spines are cold, and they can no longer sit idly by with this germ!
They found that this bacteria has infected at least 3.75 billion people around the world! 3.75 billion this number is by no means a fantasy. On the Wikipedia "Helicobacter pylori" page, it clearly reads: "More than 50% of the world's population has Helicobacter pylori in the upper part of the digestive system"!
In the history of modern medicine, there has never been any kind of virus or bacteria that can infect such a large number of people!
No wonder there is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine: "ten people and nine stomachs". What I mean is that nine out of ten people have had mild or severe stomach problems! And the culprit, is Helicobacter pylori! So how did H. pylori spread across the globe?
If one person gets sick, the whole family suffers! And once infected, the self-healing rate is almost 0!
The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated Helicobacter pylori as a class I carcinogen!
With the in-depth understanding of Helicobacter pylori, Rubin Warren and Barry Marshall discovered the greatest harm of Helicobacter pylori-the possibility of gastric cancer among Helicobacter pylori infected people can increase by about 65% compared with the normal population! At the same time, they also found that more than 90% of duodenal ulcers and about 80% of gastric ulcers are caused by Helicobacter pylori infection! The reason for this result is that Helicobacter pylori is very resistant to common antibiotics,
Generally, people who feel uncomfortable in their stomach usually go to the pharmacy to buy some stomach medicine. Even if they go to the hospital, the doctor will only prescribe some antibiotics unless they are very serious. However, what people don't know is that such treatment can't kill Helicobacter pylori at all, but will increase its drug resistance!
The reason why many people's stomach diseases often recur is here. General treatment cannot remove grass and root, which gives time for Helicobacter pylori to develop into chronic gastritis and gastric ulcer,
Eventually these incurable wounds will evolve into gastric cancer, and a check is late! There are really countless such cases. Sohu News reported before that a young man, because he was infected with Helicobacter pylori by his parents in his infancy, never took it seriously and allowed it to develop. As a result, he suffered from advanced gastric cancer at the age of 21 and died young! And "people's network" has also issued an appeal: early eradication of Helicobacter pylori in the body, can effectively reduce the risk of gastric cancer! Doctors Rubin Warren and Barry Marshall did not expect that their accidental discovery would uncover the solution to a major cancer of mankind. 3.75 billion people in the world are infected with this bacterium. If they could be reminded as soon as possible and treated as soon as possible, how many lives would be saved! Therefore, the World Health Organization/International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO/IARC) designated Helicobacter pylori as a class I carcinogen in 1994. And began to call on the public to check whether they have Helicobacter pylori, follow the doctor's advice for treatment!
Since then, western developed countries have changed their previous treatment methods for stomach diseases, and at the same time invented a detection method specifically for Helicobacter pylori. Since 1982, the incidence of gastric cancer in the United States, Britain, Australia and other countries has shown a straight downward trend. Numerous stomach patients have also been cured because of this invention, avoiding gastric cancer, one of the incurable diseases!
It is in the treatment of gastric disease, prevention of gastric cancer in the field of remarkable results, Rubin Warren and Barry Marshall, well-deserved to win the 2005 Nobel Prize in medicine, Western countries significantly reduced the number of gastric cancer patients, while China has become the largest gastric cancer country?! As of 2017, we have found two magical and extremely strange phenomena on the global distribution map of gastric cancer. One is that as of 2017, the infection rate of Helicobacter pylori in China has risen instead of falling, reaching 60%, the number of infected people has reached nearly 0.8 billion, and more than half of China has been infected.
The other is that those western countries with high incidence of gastric cancer have become light green with extremely low number of patients after 12 years of treatment for Helicobacter pylori, but China is still dark green with extremely high number of gastric cancer!
What is even more frightening is that the situation in China has not improved, but has become more serious! according to a report by "sina news,
Today, half of the world's gastric cancer patients are in China! And when it was discovered, it was already late!
Rubin Warren and Barry Marshall never thought that their discovery could have saved 0.8 billion Chinese people, but now it backfired!! So why is China not keeping pace with the world? There are two main reasons.
Helicobacter pylori was discovered when China had just reformed and opened up, and medicine was not in line!
Helicobacter pylori was discovered by two Australian doctors in 1982. At that time, China had just reformed and opened up. Many forward-looking scientific research results will not be introduced to China soon. So the lag of information, let the Chinese face stomach, can only take less effective treatment!
In 2005, after the Nobel Prize was awarded, China's economy became better. Some hospitals in well-informed big cities realized the seriousness of Helicobacter pylori and began to count the number of patients. However, at that time, the main way to detect Helicobacter pylori in China was traditional gastroscopy, which would cause additional trauma and pain to patients and have to wait for a long time! Therefore, the way the hospital chose at that time was to save the emergency first! First, treat those with serious stomach problems. If you only have occasional stomach discomfort, you should prescribe anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics!
To tell the truth, this way is also helpless, after all, China's economic strength at that time, the national conditions are there,
There are so many people in the country, one by one queuing for examination and treatment, which is simply unrealistic! In western countries, there are few people, and the medical level is ahead of China in that era, so the prevention and treatment of Helicobacter pylori is better.
The second reason: lack of publicity, people do not take stomach trouble seriously!
There is a more important reason for the large-scale infection of Helicobacter pylori in China, that is, there is no such string in the hearts of ordinary people! Think about how you usually treat stomach discomfort and discomfort. Most people are directly hard-fighting and don't care. It's really hard to go to the drugstore to buy some medicine. They don't care at all!
In western countries, such lovely posters drawn with cartoons can be seen everywhere on the propaganda boards of kindergartens or hospitals, telling children in an easy-to-understand way to be careful of Helicobacter pylori, even if it is not a western country, our neighbor Japan has done a good job in this respect. According to the "People's Daily Online" report, from a global perspective, China, Japan, and South Korea are areas with a high incidence of gastric cancer, but Japan has long regarded Helicobacter pylori as one of the public health inspection items. According to statistics, the examination of Helicobacter pylori and radical treatment have reduced the infection rate of Helicobacter pylori in young people in Japan to less than 10%, and the incidence of gastric cancer has a predictable downward trend. So really don't underestimate the power of propaganda. If our children and our family members knew the harm of Helicobacter pylori from the beginning, then nearly 0.8 billion Chinese people would not be infected at all! So what do we do?
First of all, I would like to thank the rapid economic development of the motherland in recent years, and the medical level of hospitals is getting higher and higher. Helicobacter pylori, which used to need gastroscopy to confirm, can now be found out only by blowing a breath! Now the regular hospital, will be equipped with special detection device, go to the hospital to take reagents, blowing on the instrument, you can detect whether infected with Helicobacter pylori! This examination, cheap, convenient, high accuracy, and no pain, is currently the most commonly used clinical testing methods!
Then after the examination, don't panic if you are unfortunately recruited. It's 2017 now, and the treatment of Helicobacter pylori is no longer a problem! At present, the treatment time in large hospitals is about 14 days. If it is the first time to be infected with Helicobacter pylori, eradication is relatively simple. Please be sure to treat it with a sufficient amount of full treatment under the guidance of an experienced doctor to "annihilate" the bacteria in one fell swoop.
Remember here that those traditional Chinese medicines and health products that are effective in eradicating Helicobacter pylori are most likely to be mixed with antibiotics,
This kind of unknown dose, type of practice, very undesirable! Go to the regular hospital, reasonable treatment, remember to remember. It is hard to imagine that nearly 0.8 billion people in China have been infected with Helicobacter pylori. If it were not for the discovery of the two doctors in Australia,
How many people will suffer from stomach cancer, and how many people will lose their lives as a result? Here, I really want to thank these two Nobel Prize-winning doctors. You deserve the honor you have received, and I sincerely praise you! Finally, I hope that in the near future, with the efforts of all medical scientists around the world, human beings can completely defeat bacteria and cancer, so that there will be less painful parting and more laughter in the world! This day must not be too far away!
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