Many people know that garlic is also very common in life and has many medicinal values. Eating raw garlic often can kill Helicobacter pylori in the body, but do you know what effect this kind of garlic has on our health?

The popularity of garlic is getting higher and higher in recent years, which is related to some people's advertisements. Indeed, some research papers reported that the functions of garlic and its extracts include: 1) antibacterial, including bacteria and fungi. A large number of in vitro experiments have proved the bacteriostatic effect of garlic and its extract; 2) Anti-virus, including fighting the common cold, flu and even HIV; 3) Anti-tumor, garlic contains organic germanium compounds and trace element selenium, which has auxiliary anti-cancer effect; 4) Benefits to cardiovascular system, including lowering blood lipid, reducing platelet aggregation and lowering blood pressure. These research reports are not authoritative and their authenticity needs to be verified, but they do make garlic a magical ingredient for health care and disease prevention. Once the price went up, so it was called? Garlic, are you cruel .

Can eating raw garlic kill Helicobacter pylori?

Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative bacterium, spiral, and slightly aerobic. It is well known that more than 90% of gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer are caused by Helicobacter pylori infection. Eradication of Helicobacter pylori can be used as a primary preventive measure for gastric cancer, which shows that the invisible killer can be eradicated? Helicobacter pylori? It's crucial. Of course, whether to eradicate Helicobacter pylori needs to be combined with individual specific circumstances and must be carried out under the guidance of a specialist.

Can eating raw garlic kill Helicobacter pylori? It is true that garlic has antibacterial effect, and it has also been reported in the literature. A large number of in vitro experiments have proved that garlic and its extracts have antibacterial effect, but in vitro experiments are not equal to in vivo experiments. There have also been clinical studies on the inhibition of Helicobacter pylori by eating garlic, but due to its roughness and small sample size, the research results can not prove that garlic can really inhibit Helicobacter pylori.

Apply an online buzzword. Is it hooliganism to talk about curative effect without dose? This sentence also applies here. Allicin, as the essence of garlic, is known as? Plant natural broad-spectrum antibiotics? Modern medical research has confirmed that allicin has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. However, as a concentrated and purified product of garlic, the allicin content in garlic is very low, so it is almost difficult to kill Helicobacter pylori by eating garlic, and eating a lot of garlic raw will also cause damage to gastric mucosa, which is not worth the candle.

How should Helicobacter pylori be eradicated?

In fact, the eradication of Helicobacter pylori can be completed in a short time, and eating garlic every day is not so troublesome and the effect is not clear. At present, triple or quadruple therapy is mainly used to eradicate Helicobacter pylori in clinic, that is, proton pump inhibitor combined with metronidazole and clarithromycin, and bismuth is added to quadruple therapy. The fifth national report on the treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection released by Chinese Medical Association on 20 17 pointed out that the resistance rate of Helicobacter pylori to clarithromycin, metronidazole and levofloxacin was on the rise, while the resistance rate to amoxicillin, tetracycline and furazolidone was low. In order to avoid drug resistance or treatment failure, it is more appropriate to choose antibiotics with low drug resistance rate or quadruple therapy scheme 14 days.

To sum up, the eradication of Helicobacter pylori needs to go to the hospital to improve the relevant examinations, and an experienced doctor needs to formulate a scientific treatment plan according to the patient's condition and local antimicrobial resistance. It is unscientific to kill Helicobacter pylori by eating garlic. The garlic we eat every day can't achieve the sterilization effect at all, but it will bring bad breath and gastrointestinal discomfort.

In fact, generally speaking, the efficacy and function of garlic is also very powerful. If taken regularly, it can achieve sterilization effect and ensure our health, especially for some patients with oral cavity and constipation. In order to be healthier, we must remember to eat a little garlic every day, so as to ensure that our bodies are no longer infected by some bacteria.