Ive been diagnosed with H-Pylori bacteria in my body. Where did it come from?
It’s smart of you to get your partner tested. Most don’t and ping pong the bacteria back and forth between each other. You may need to take four antibiotics at the same time instead of three if you have a bacteria resistant strain. “An increasing number of infected individuals are found to harbour antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This results in initial treatment failure and requires additional rounds of antibiotic therapy or alternative strategies such as a quadruple therapy, which adds a bismuth colloid. For the treatment of clarithromycin-resistant strains of H. pylori the use of levofloxacin as part of the therapy has been suggested.
