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My daughter is 11 years old and has had anxiety since she was a toddler. Last year she was vomiting intermittently and was complaining about stomach issues. We took her in to her doctor and when her blood work came back she had h. pylori antibodies. We had already been giving her prilosec at this time but we were informed we needed to give a stool sample, it came back negative. I was told that she could not do a breath test because of her age....why? Her symptoms are back along with tension headaches, teeth pain, weight loss, and depression. I feel bad cause she got better and I feel like I didn't follow through with this.

I feel sad to read your post. I think you should contact a good doctor.

I am not sure what your doctor meant by children not suitable for breath test. Here is an article about FDA approval on children as young as 3 years old to conduct breath test on H. pylori.

http://www.clinicaladvisor.com/web-excl ... le/229373/

I think your daughter could be suffering from other diseases other than H. pylori. Anyway, let's fix one issue at a time. If H. pylori is truly negative, then she can proceed to other checkup.