Patients suffering from chronic and recurring abdominal pain often visit the gastroenterology clinic, the internal medicine clinic, or even the general practitioner’s clinic (especially the private sector), and I have noticed that a large percentage of cases have wandered between this clinic and that and that the final outcome of those visits was not feasible. After all the examinations, analyzes, medicines and money spent, and here I find myself surprising why many doctors or patients insist that the cause of this pain is stomach germs, and work begins from the first visit to the clinic, trying to direct the treating doctor in this direction and trying to convince the doctor of what is going on in many of our councils from Diagnostics and prescriptions without any reference and without any background in the medical field, and then you find the references in the clinic. He starts by requesting specific analyzes and tests for the stomach germ and asks the doctor not to do any other tests (according to his opinion, they are not necessary) and then the intervention in the treatment plan continues in a surprising manner He asks the doctor not to take a lot of medicines because they are harmful to health (according to him) and after you write him a prescription instead of listening to the doctor’s advice about starting to change some of his behaviours, for example (smoking or the type of drug you take). (to eat) begins by giving his experiences to the doctor in his desire to convince the doctor that these behaviors have nothing to do with what he suffers from or for fear that the doctor will prevent him from some of these behaviors or from some of the patient’s favorite types of eating, and after the patient is discharged, the interventions continue in the treatment plan and the patient begins to reduce the amount The daily dose because it is strong on his body (as he says) and then he does not complete the specified period completely and is satisfied with the first or second week and throws the rest of the treatment and says (I am much better than the first), then after a month or two he starts organizing a new visit and a new budget, whether with the same doctor or With another doctor, and this is governed by the cost and the reputation of the doctor or the extent of personal satisfaction with this doctor.

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She has no symptoms

In fact, I hope everyone knows that stomach germs do not have specific symptoms of abdominal pain or other, and in many of these cases, which suffered and were subjected to a lot of financial depletion (if you will) is the result of a great lack of knowledge about what the stomach germ is My main patient has and I do not forget that some doctors have a role in this.

And since the stomach germ is transmitted by infection, it is abound among children and the lower living classes, especially in developing countries, but it does not lead to any problems in many cases, but it is treated in certain cases (the presence of ulcers in the stomach or duodenum or the presence of a family history of stomach tumors), where It must be ensured that it is eliminated in order to prevent any future complications that may arise, and it is detected by several methods, the most accurate of which is the examination of a sample taken endoscopically from the lining of the stomach (a procedure that takes a few minutes while the patient is under the influence of a sedative and may not be necessary, then the endoscope is passed from the mouth to the esophagus and then the stomach, and the patient may feel some bloating without any inconveniences or problems except in very rare cases) and there are other methods such as the exhalation test (blowing). Endoscopy, note that there are some other methods of detection, but they are less accurate and sensitive.

Pain has nothing to do with it

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As for its susceptibility to treatment, it reaches more than 90 percent, and there are several treatment plans that the doctor can implement as he deems appropriate.

What is also known that the proportions of stomach germs in this region of the world exceed 60% needs to be discussed, as we – the scientific research group for the digestive system at King Abdulaziz Medical City for the National Guard in Riyadh – this year completed a study (on the way for publication) on more than 700 A patient over a full year, and the study showed that the percentage of stomach germs is 37% of patients suffering from abdominal pain, and the germ was examined by the most accurate examination methods known, which is by taking an endoscopic sample from the stomach wall and then examining it under the microscope, but there were many other reasons that were The reason patients complain, not stomach germs, is always to blame.

Therefore, I hope the patients who are visiting first to look for a doctor who specializes in this field and not to set himself a target for financial exploitation and to try to accurately identify his health condition and not to interfere in the treatment plan drawn up for him and to listen to the doctor’s advice accurately in order to benefit from this visit, which He paid some of his money for it.