H. Pylori

H. Pylori
* starts between meals or during the night
Keira always wants to eat. She’ll be playing or reading with us, jump up, go to the fridge and demand to eat something or drink. This isn’t new, but I never thought it was a symptom of something else.
* briefly stops if you eat or take antacids
Keira has terrible sleeping patterns. But the one constant is that she would wake up crying and go to the table and sit there until I gave her something to eat and drink. She will wrap her hands around her stomach, which I thought she was cold, but now I’m second guessing myself, maybe she was hurting. After she had a little snack she’d usually go back to bed, sometimes she’d just about fall asleep in her chair. We took Keira off milk about 2 months ago and I wonder if that was coating her stomach. I thought I was creating a bad habit by giving her a snack every night, now I’m thinking the food was calming her tummy. If I didn’t give her a snack she’s scream for hours on end – probably in pain – very glad I gave in.
* lasts for minutes to hours
Don’t know how long it lasts she’s non-verbal.
* comes and goes for several days or weeks
It comes and goes.
* weight loss
She has had weight loss now, she’s been vomiting for nights.
* poor appetite
Her appetite has gone down hill. I think she’s eating just enough to make herself feel better. She keeps going to the fridge getting stuff out, but only takes a few bites.
* bloating
I don’t know how I’d know this
* burping
Bad burps lately
* vomiting
Only at night
* feeling sick to your stomach
Don’t know. She must be feeling sick some of the time because she is going to her bed from time to time and just laying there.
* sudden sharp stomach pain that doesn’t go away
I don’t know
* black or bloody stools
Keira does eat a lot of blue berries but recently her stool has looked odd. It’s brown swirled with dark black. I figured it was just the blueberries, but now I’m questioning myself.
* bloody vomit or vomit that looks like coffee grounds
I’ve been wondering if her vomit had blood in it, since she eats blueberries, tomatoes I figured the color of the vomit was probably from what she’s been eating. Sometimes it’s fluorescent pink – other times it looks like a dark purple almost black thick goo. I figured the different color and thickness may have something to do with how long the food had been in her stomach, but now I’m afraid there could be blood. Today we took her off the fruit because of the acid – she’s eating nothing healthy except carrots.
The bacteria most likely spread from person to person through the fecal-oral route (when infected fecal matter comes in contact with hands, food or water) or the oral-oral route (when infected saliva or vomit comes in contact with hands, food or water).
Keira puts everything in her mouth.
The vomiting started when we took her off the anti biotic that Dr MacDonald put her on back on the 18th because they thought she had a UTI. She had 4 doses, she had the last dose on Monday morning, they called me, told me she didn’t have a UTI and to stop the anti biotic, that night around midnight she started vomiting.
Keira also started this spitting thing after we took her off milk. I think the milk was coating her tummy and now that she doesn’t have that I bet she’s trying to spit out that taste.
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/pepticulcers_ez/
http://www.idph.state.il.us/public/hb/hbhylori.htm