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“L’amour est une mer dont la femme est la rive.”

 Victor Hugo, (1802 – 1885), French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.

This pathology fills offices of specialists and GPs as well.

Despite diagnosis is on most occasions obvious on simple clinical examination for the experienced physician, endoscopy, a costly and cumbersome procedure is still most frequently ordered.

Modern ultrasound, (such machines are present since turn of the century), permit precise localization and diagnosis.

Though this procedure needs some experience and interest in practicing hands.

Since more than half a century antibiotics are used for therapy.

In the view of more experienced gastroenterologists, even this practice can be questioned.

Dr Desbaillet, a Swiss specialist (Montreux Riviera), was saying 40 years ago, that if he would prescribe only NaCl in such cases no one would send him patients any longer.

Despite the ease of germ eradication, and few resistant cases, reinfection is frequent and fast.

Hence, treatment remains an open question!

Recently, interest in research has been attracted to intra-cellular proliferation of the Helicobacter pylori.

Thus, a virus operating as a helper of the bacterial germ is not to be excluded. Candidates are manifold, from the spectrum of intestinal viruses.

Since more than a century (Mycobacteria) the positive action of sun rays is well known, and this especially against bacteria with intra-cellular penetration (Tuberculosis sanatoriums of beginning of 20^th century).

UV skin exposition can be proposed as a secure option. (Avoid sun burns!)

During the “bad season” solariums can be used for this purpose, usually available in big cities.