ulcers

The story of stomach ulcers is especially wonderful, because it's so recent [1] (stomach ulcers were obviously caused by stress, and poor diet, etc).

It took decades to recognize the link between stomach ulcers and bacteria and begin treating ulcers with antibiotics, and that's a lot easier to quantify than mood.

Pylori can cause ulcers doesn't mean there can't be other causes.

It reminds the history of stomach ulcers where bacteria, not the stress, happened to be the primary reason.

Then the idea that ulcers are just an infection took hold so the psychogenic manifestations of stress shifted.

I think the situation is more akin to stomach ulcers, which everyone _knew_ were caused by stress, until of course a physiological cause was found.

My wife suffered with ulcers all her life until a comment on the NHS website suggested cutting out SLS.

These people getting back pain and carpal tunnel syndrome were all getting ulcers 60 years ago.

There was a model of how milk would be a good treatment, and doctor would recommend milk to patients with ulcers.

Did you miss the comparison to ulcers and how long their real cause was overlooked in favour of a mistaken cause?

Given that psychological stress increases stomach acid, it's plausible that stress can cause ulcers.

Everyone knew that there were multiple contributing risk factors, including physiological, behavioral, and stress-related, for gastric ulcers before H.

This 2006 page from the CDC says, "Recently scientists have found that most ulcers are caused by an infection".

> “WH1 (has) the potential to treat wounds created by necrotising bacteria, for example from spider bites and chronic wounds such as pressure sores, tropical ulcers, diabetes-related ulcers,” she said.

Like the pain from mouth ulcers, it's not a massive area but sharp and quite agonising." To be able to get up and run again day after day and put yourself through that is quite an accomplishment.