Seeking help for hiccup and stomach microbe problem
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 12:28 pm
Hello everyone,
I am a college student from Zhengzhou, China, and I have a problem with my stomach that has been bothering me for a long time. I hope someone here can help me or give me some advice.
My main symptom is that I often hiccup, especially after meals. The hiccup lasts for 10 to 30 minutes every time, and about 1 to 2 hours per day. I have done the H. pylori test before, and it was positive. I took the quadruple therapy and then it turned negative, but my symptom did not improve. I have also done the gastroscopy, and it showed that there was no anatomical abnormality in my stomach, only superficial gastritis.
My guess is that there are some other bacteria or microbes in my stomach or intestines, besides H. pylori, that can break down food and produce a lot of gas, which is expelled through hiccup. I want to do some experiments to verify this hypothesis, and to identify the type and number of microbes in my stomach.
The experiments I want to do are:
1.To culture the gastric juice or brush the gastric mucosa to determine whether there are such microbes in my stomach, and to identify the species of microbes.
2.To analyze the gas composition of my hiccup by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and compare it with normal people, to determine whether there are any abnormal metabolic products in my stomach, and also to assist in finding out whether there are any abnormal microbes.
The help I need is:
1.Gastric juice culture or gastric mucosa brushing are very rare tests in general hospitals, and may require special equipment and sterile requirements. So if anyone knows any laboratory or hospital that has such equipment, please let me know.
2.I am not very familiar with the operation of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, so I need to borrow a laboratory or laboratory equipment, preferably with someone to guide me to complete the experiment.
I would appreciate it if anyone could help me or give me some suggestions. Thank you very much for reading my post!
I am a college student from Zhengzhou, China, and I have a problem with my stomach that has been bothering me for a long time. I hope someone here can help me or give me some advice.
My main symptom is that I often hiccup, especially after meals. The hiccup lasts for 10 to 30 minutes every time, and about 1 to 2 hours per day. I have done the H. pylori test before, and it was positive. I took the quadruple therapy and then it turned negative, but my symptom did not improve. I have also done the gastroscopy, and it showed that there was no anatomical abnormality in my stomach, only superficial gastritis.
My guess is that there are some other bacteria or microbes in my stomach or intestines, besides H. pylori, that can break down food and produce a lot of gas, which is expelled through hiccup. I want to do some experiments to verify this hypothesis, and to identify the type and number of microbes in my stomach.
The experiments I want to do are:
1.To culture the gastric juice or brush the gastric mucosa to determine whether there are such microbes in my stomach, and to identify the species of microbes.
2.To analyze the gas composition of my hiccup by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and compare it with normal people, to determine whether there are any abnormal metabolic products in my stomach, and also to assist in finding out whether there are any abnormal microbes.
The help I need is:
1.Gastric juice culture or gastric mucosa brushing are very rare tests in general hospitals, and may require special equipment and sterile requirements. So if anyone knows any laboratory or hospital that has such equipment, please let me know.
2.I am not very familiar with the operation of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, so I need to borrow a laboratory or laboratory equipment, preferably with someone to guide me to complete the experiment.
I would appreciate it if anyone could help me or give me some suggestions. Thank you very much for reading my post!