Message Number: SG971 | New FHL Archives Search
From: FerretGM@yahoo.com
Date: 2002-08-22 16:44:58 UTC
Subject: Interesting Helicobacter article
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <23646416.1030034698810.JavaMail.root@scandium>

I was just on Howard Hughes Medical Institute site (www.hhmi.org) and found a summary of a January 2002 article on treatment of patients with long-term acid blockers for helicobacter. The suggestion is that long-term treatment will lead to other problems (overgrowth of other bacteria due to changed pH in stomach) that ends up causing problems of equal seriousness. The article is at www.hhmmi.org/news/merchant.html. If you can't find it, search for "helicobacter" and perhaps add the researcher's name - Merchant.
I am not clever enough to determine what impact this might have on treating ferrets with ulcers and/or gastritis, but thought it might be of interest to others.
Melissa