Ngenkathi ngisekolishi eminyakeni engama-30 eyedlule, ngafunda ukuthi izilonda ngokuyinhloko zaziyizifo zengqondo ezazelashwa ngokulawula ingcindezi nokuthatha ama-antiacid. Yeka imigwaqo esihambe ngayo kusukela lapho!

Udokotela wase-Australia, uDkt Barry Marshall wasola ekuqaleni kwawo-1980 ukuthi amagciwane ayinqaba atholakala esiswini seziguli ezithile angadala isifo sezilonda. Wakwazi ukutshala amabhaktheriya esitsheni se-petri. Ngo-1984, ekhungathekile ukuthi ozakwabo babengakholelwa ekuxhumaneni phakathi kwama-bacteria nezilonda, waba nomqondo wokugwinya isiko lamagciwane okukhulunywa ngalo. Vele ngaphandle kokuxoxisana nanoma yiliphi ikomidi lezimiso zokuziphatha futhi nangaphansi komkakhe. Ezinsukwini ezintathu kamuva kuvela ukungakhululeki, futhi i-gastroscopy eyenziwe ezinsukwini eziyi-14 kamuva ikhombisa i-carbine gastritis. Wathatha ama-antibiotic ukuyelapha. Ukucwaninga okuningi emhlabeni jikelele ngemuva kwalokho kukuqinisekisile ukubaluleka kwamagciwane H Pylori njengesizathu sezilonda. Ekugcineni wathola umklomelo weNobel for Medicine ngo-2005.

Kusukela lapho, isifo sezilonda siyelapheka kalula. 

D^r I-Dominic Larose, MD, i-CMFC (MU), i-FACEP