More recently, scientists have been convinced that the cause of chronic stomach diseases is exclusively internal processes in the human body and patients can not infect other people. In the literal sense it is, gastritis is not transmitted in direct form, but its most common pathogen is a direct threat to get infected.
Australian Robin Warren, who conducted studies of samples of damaged stomach ulcers, concluded that these tissues contain a large number of microorganisms, which allegedly are the cause of the formation and development of chronic gastric diseases such as gastritis, and, consequently, and infectiousness for others. After practical experiments, this theory was proved, and the detected bacterium was called Helikobakter Pilori. Today this microorganism is considered the main causative agent of stomach diseases, including gastritis.
The bacterium can be transmitted in various ways from a sick person to a healthy one: it can enter the body with dirty products or water, through badly washed dishes, with non-compliance with hygiene. Gastritis is contagious only in the case when your organism has got its causative agent. The further course of events will depend only on how much the microbe can walk. There are people in the body of which this bacterium does not survive at all, but the percentage of such lucky ones is very small. In the main, Helikobakter easily adapts to the internal environment of the stomach and gradually harms it. According to statistics, this pathogen provokes up to 90% of all varieties of gastritis.
But despite all possible danger, if you are infected with this microorganism, timely intervention will help to avoid serious consequences. The main difficulty here is to identify the bacterium, but it is by no means due to any complex research. The whole problem is people's unwillingness to take their health seriously and to be examined as prevention. To prevent the development of gastritis and not to infect their loved ones, you need to undergo a course of treatment on time and remove the pathogen from your body.
In Russia, a method by which a routine blood test allows one to detect abnormalities in the state of the gastric mucosa is successfully practiced, which means the presence of this microbe in the body. But the main reason for the low percentage of infection detection is the careless attitude of patients towards their health. Therefore, taking yourself seriously, you will not only avoid gastritis, but also exclude the possibility of infecting others with the pathogen.