A friends cat has been diagnosed with a helicobacter infection in the stomach and small intestine. Details are in her note below.
Her vet, does much with natural remedies, but so far is not supportive of using colloidal silver. Anyone here have anything they can pass my way to help the vet understand that CS could be helpful here? Or, human experience treating helicobacter? Thanks! Lin As usual, our little angel is a medical mystery. The biopsies were all very abnormal, but in abnormal ways. So, not definitive. There were lots and lots and lots of lymphocyes in all samples, which isn't normal. If that were the only thing, she'd conclude it is small cell lymphoma. However, there was another bizarre finding: a massive Helicobacter infection! These are little spiral bacteria that occupy the stomach, the same ones found to be responsible for ulcers in people (the "H" in H. pylori). However, there were large numbers in the small intestine as well--THIS IS NEVER SEEN. Helicobacter can cause inflammation and gastritis. Recently, there are more and more that are appearing antibiotic resistant. So the question is, are the lymphocytes there fighting a massive helicobacter infection, or, is there a massive H. infection because her lymphocytes are abnormal, as a result of cancer? The pathologist wants to do some staining of the samples to determine the subtype of lymphocytes, which will help answer this. If all the lymphs are the same subtype, then it's most likely cancer (small cell lymphoma)... if they're all different, then it points more to a response to an infection. I gave her the thumb's up to do the tests. So, this is very strange. Helicobacter is not supposed to be able to SURVIVE in the intestine... according to the textbooks. It's such a radically different environment than the stomach, which is highly acidic.
