What is "helicobacter pylori"?

What is "helicobacter pylori"?

Siamak Tabib (Gastroenterologist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA) gives expert video advice on: What are the symptoms associated with helicobacter pylori?; What is the treatment of helicobacter pylori? and more...

Helicobacter pylori, or what we generally refer to as H. pylori, is a bacteria that lives in the lining of our large intestine. We feel that this bacteria does not belong there and generally should not be there, as it is the culprit for most of the ulcers that form in one's stomach cavity. Helicobacter pylori has been rendered as a carcinogen, or a cancer causing agent, by the World Health Organization. When we find this bacteria, we generally like to get rid of it by giving a short course of combination antibiotics and acid reducing agents.