On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the weather is getting warmer and the sun is shining warmly on me.
Seeing that it was almost noon, Sun Chengren and his family walked slowly towards the village square.
He is over 50 years old, and his parents are old. Although he has brothers and sisters from his hometown to take care of him, he still has to come back every year to honor his parents during the Chinese New Year.
Especially this time, I met a distant nephew who was getting married, so I stayed at home for two more days, planning to go back after the wedding banquet.
The relatives in my hometown are doing well, and every family has built a new building. They are all acquaintances since childhood, and they are very warm when they meet.
Along the way, someone from every house would chat with Lao Sun, and his daughter Sun Xiaoshi's face was frozen with laughter.
By the time we arrived at the wedding venue, everything was ready.
The shed was set up and the tables and chairs were set up. At a glance, there were about thirty tables.
There was a stage in the center, and bright red roses were placed in bundles around it.
Flower stands were placed around the venue, and a red carpet was laid out on the entire ground.
There were bunches of red balloons tied to the shed, which was extremely festive.
There are also a bunch of firecrackers and fireworks piled up outside, ready to be set off when the feast is served.
"Hey, it's quite impressive."
As Sun Chengren watched, he nodded secretly in his mind. This wedding was really well-arranged. It was very festive and luxurious in the village. This nephew's family should be in pretty good condition.
Generally, for wedding banquets in rural areas, the groom's house starts to get busy the day before.
In the morning, I went to the market to buy vegetables and drinks, and in the afternoon I was busy picking vegetables, cooking vegetables, and decorating the wedding room.
In the evening, we had dinner, set off fireworks, watched a theater troupe, sang, danced, etc., all in one line, and the fun didn't end until late at night.
For the wedding banquet the next day, guests started arriving one after another in the morning. When it was almost noon, everyone arrived, and the square suddenly became lively, with chatter everywhere.
"Oh, this wedding is beautifully decorated."
"No, generally wedding banquets have 16 dishes, but today there are 24 dishes. It's very grand."
"It seems that the successful family has indeed made a fortune by doing business outside. I heard that they have bought houses in the county and provincial capitals. No wonder they are so generous in getting married."
"The woman is a girl from the city. She has good conditions and is pretty."
"Oh, this is Chengren, long time no see. Is this your little poem? She looks so beautiful. When are you getting married?"
Sun Xiaoshi, who was looking around, turned her head in confusion.
When you were talking about your wedding, why did the conversation suddenly come to her?
Sun Chengren chuckled: "She is still young. She just graduated from college this year. Don't worry, we will talk about it in two years."
As he spoke, he found a table and sat down, continuing to chat with the other guests at the table.
"It's already noon, why hasn't the person who picked up the bride come back yet?"
"Hurry, hurry. The cannons will be fired when we reach the entrance of the village. You will definitely hear them."
"I heard that the bride is very beautiful. She looks like a big star. Let's get to know her later."
Seeing that the time was getting closer and closer, everyone became more and more anxious and stopped chatting much. They all stretched their necks and looked towards the entrance of the village, waiting to see the legendary beautiful bride.
Not long after, there was a rumble in the distance.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief instantly, with beaming expressions on their faces.
"I heard a voice, the bride is here."
"Let's go and see the bride~"
Children love to join in the fun. After hearing the sound, they all ran to the entrance of the village to watch.
The adults were relatively stable and sat at the banquet, waiting for the bride and groom to come over.
Soon, a wedding car drove slowly over, with eye-catching flowers placed on the front of the car. At the front was a luxury car, a dozen of them.
The wedding car circled the square and stopped.
A pair of young people in red Chinese dresses got off the carriage with smiles on their faces and walked onto the stage amidst the deafening sound of firecrackers.
Festive music also sounded, and various types of fireworks continued to rise into the sky.
Sun Xiaoshi attended a wedding banquet in a rural area for the first time. She was so happy that she took out her mobile phone and kept logging on.
"Hey, there's no one here, so just sit here."
A tall, thin young man wearing glasses, who seemed to have come with the groom, saw an empty seat here and walked over to sit down.
When he saw the young and lively Sun Xiaoshi next to him, his eyes suddenly lit up. He smiled and said, "Hello, my name is Gao Yuan. I am the groom's classmate. You are all his relatives, right?"
"Well, just call me Xiaoshi." Sun Xiaoshi nodded and was about to say something when a strong odor suddenly hit her nose. She felt like she was suffocating, and the smile on her face suddenly froze.
She slowly leaned back in the chair, feeling less uncomfortable now.
Gao Yuan didn't realize it, still smiling and constantly looking for topics to chat.
A faint stench kept coming, Sun Xiaoshi held her breath, her whole body felt bad.
But she couldn't just say "You have bad breath, stay away from me", or even make it too obvious.
We can only move to the other side inch by inch, trying to open a suitable distance, so that we can quietly breathe.
Fortunately, while I was speaking on the stage, the dishes were served quickly.
She forced a smile: "You have been busy all morning, so you must be hungry. Let's eat first."
After finishing speaking, he quickly buried his head in eating without waiting for the other party to speak.
Although banquets in the countryside are not as luxurious and exquisite as those in big hotels, they are all solid dishes with ample portions and plenty of oil and water.
As soon as it was served on the table, a mouth-watering aroma instantly wafted out, and the guests' eyes suddenly lit up and their mouths watered.
They didn't even eat much breakfast for this wedding banquet. They had been hungry all morning and their stomachs were growling.
Anyway, the bride has seen it all, and the most important thing is to do the work.
Like a snake coming out of its hole, a pair of tachyons pounced directly on the yellow dragon, picked up a large piece of meat in an instant, and returned home with a full load.
In the entire square, there were thirty tables of people eating enthusiastically, and the atmosphere was extremely lively.
Sun Chengren opened a bottle of liquor and drank slowly with a few familiar cousins.
Gao Yuan was very busy, with tachyons in his hands constantly attacking, but he kept chatting non-stop, with a grain of rice popping out of the corner of his mouth from time to time.
Sun Xiaoshi maintained an awkward but polite smile on her face, eating her meal silently, replying a few sentences here and there, complaining in her heart.
"Damn it, how come this guy has bad breath and doesn't realize it? He still likes to chat with people so much. Ah, it feels so uncomfortable. I can't even breathe. Woohoo~"
Finally, after the bride and groom had toasted, the banquet was almost finished, and the guests began to disperse.
Sun Xiaoshi immediately stood up and said goodbye as if she was a great monk.
"Sister Xiaoshi, we have such a good conversation, why not add WeChat." Gao Yuan burped and took out his mobile phone.
"Okay." Sun Xiaoshi readily agreed in order to escape as soon as possible.
After the two exchanged WeChat messages, she pulled Lao Sun's sleeve and signaled with her eyes.
"You girl, why are you so ignorant? You didn't notice that I was chatting with your third uncle. You and your mother should go back first."
Sun Chengren waved his hand and said with some displeasure.
"Ah, I'm in a hurry, I have to go back quickly." Sun Xiaoshi made an excuse, pulled her mother, and ran away in an instant.
Gao Yuan looked at Sun Xiaoshi's hurriedly leaving figure, smiled nonchalantly, sat down on Xiaoshi's seat, and came closer.
"Uncle, you guys are drinking. Actually, I like this. How about we have a drink too."
When he opened his mouth, thick bad breath came out with his breath.
Sun Chengren was stunned for a moment, then stood up with a start.
"Well, I suddenly remembered that I have something to do at home, so I have to leave quickly. Let's continue drinking in the evening."
Watching him leave with windy footsteps, Gao Yuan couldn't help but frowned and scratched his head in confusion.
Sun Chengren walked on the road with long strides. Thinking of the stench, he couldn't help but feel sick.
Only then did he understand why his daughter, who had always been well-behaved and sensible, left in such a hurry, and deeply regretted not following him.
As soon as I entered the house, I heard my daughter complaining.
"Mom, you don't know, the person sitting next to me has a bad mouth. It's so unbearable that I couldn't even finish the meal. I have to eat some more snacks to suppress this disgusting feeling. .”
Sun Chengren shook his head, walked over and scolded: "Now that we are back, don't talk behind people's backs. This guy has such bad breath, maybe he has gastrointestinal problems, and he doesn't want to."
Unexpectedly, his daughter glanced at him and immediately gloated: "Dad, aren't you going to continue drinking? You won't be smoked back too, so you have the nerve to accuse me."
"You..." Sun Chengren was suddenly speechless, glared at her fiercely, and walked towards the house.
Three days later, Lao Sun and his family returned to Kunming.
After dinner in the evening, while sitting in front of the TV, Sun Chengren suddenly felt a churn in his stomach and a feeling of acid rising up.
"Have you been drinking too much recently? Or maybe you have eaten too much fish and meat, and you have some indigestion."
He groaned secretly in his heart, but he didn't take it seriously. Instead, he turned to his wife and shouted, "I've been eating too much lately. Let's eat something lighter tomorrow."
Seeing his wife nodding, he turned back and watched TV again.
However, as he watched, he suddenly felt bloating in his stomach and burped. A sour smell poured from his stomach into his esophagus, and instantly he felt a strong burning sensation in his sternum.
Lao Sun immediately sat up and said, "Did he make the same old habit again?"
He got up and rummaged around the room, and quickly found a box of remaining stomach medicine. He took a few pills before feeling better.
As a salesman, he socialized a lot at the wine table, often overeated and did not eat on time. Therefore, he always had some stomach problems and often had to take some stomach medicine.
"If it's still like this tomorrow, go to the hospital."
He thought to himself that he might have overeated during the Chinese New Year, ate greasy food, and drank alcohol all the time. He drank for fun, so he didn't like to take hangover medicine, which resulted in stomach problems.
Early the next morning, as soon as he sat up, a feeling of nausea came over him.
At the same time, I began to feel a dull pain in my upper abdomen.
"No, why isn't it better after taking medicine? I'll go to the hospital later."
Sun Chengren frowned, suspecting that the over-the-counter stomach medicine he bought from the prescription was not strong enough, so he decided to go to the hospital after breakfast and prescribed some powerful stomach medicine to suppress the symptoms of acid reflux and nausea.
After breakfast, I immediately took a taxi to a nearby hospital, where I was diagnosed with chronic gastritis and prescribed a bunch of medicine.
But after taking the medicine for several days, the symptoms never improved.
He even felt that the pain in his upper abdomen was becoming more and more frequent, showing a cyclical trend.
I felt anxious and quickly went to see a doctor again.
This time, the doctor fell silent while looking at his test sheet.
"Doctor, what's wrong with me?" Sun Chengren suddenly felt a little panicked when he saw the doctor didn't speak.
The doctor raised his glasses and said slowly: "It seems to be more serious. Have you always had chronic gastritis, and then you like to drink. With such a lifestyle, stomach diseases are difficult to cure."
Sun Chengren nodded: "Yes, my stomach has been bad before, but it gets better every time I take medicine, so I didn't think much about it. Maybe everyone drank too much during the New Year party and relapsed."
The doctor shook his head and said: "You are getting older. You should pay attention to your health. Alcohol is very irritating to the gastric mucosa. Stop it as soon as possible. You have probably developed from chronic gastritis to peptic ulcer. Things have already happened. It is very serious and must be taken seriously. If this continues, there is a possibility of developing gastric cancer."
Sun Chengren was shocked: "What? Gastric ulcer? Gastric cancer?"
He then said with a mournful face: "Then can my disease be cured?"
"This is just my suspicion. Let's do a comprehensive gastric examination first. By the way, you just said that there are a lot of dinner parties during the Spring Festival? Then the possibility of Helicobacter pylori infection is very high. Let's do a C-13 breath test. "
The doctor opened the examination form, Sun Chengren paid the money, and went to do the C-13 breath test first.
This is recognized as the gold standard for detecting Helicobacter pylori. As long as you take a C-13 urea capsule, if Helicobacter pylori is present in the stomach, the bacteria will secrete urease to hydrolyze urea. After the urea is hydrolyzed, it will form carbon dioxide and enter the lungs with the blood. It is discharged in the form of gas, so as long as you detect whether there is labeled C-13 in the exhaled breath, you can know whether Helicobacter pylori is present.
Sun Chengren waited for more than half an hour and finally saw the test results.
Taking a closer look, the words 'HP positive, DOB value 80, strong positive infection' on the test report came into view.
His face turned green instantly.
After all, he also works in a pharmaceutical company and still has basic medical knowledge.
This report proved that he was not only infected with Helicobacter pylori, but also that the infection was very serious.
He also knew something about this germ.
Helicobacter pylori is a pathogenic bacterium that lives in the stomach. More than 90% of duodenal ulcers and more than 80% of gastric ulcers are caused by Helicobacter pylori. It is also a class of carcinogen. New gastric cancers are discovered every year. Half of it has something to do with it.
Under normal circumstances, the stomach wall has a series of complete self-protection mechanisms.
Gastric acid, the secretion function of proteases, the protective effect of insoluble and soluble mucus layers, regular exercise, etc., can resist the invasion of thousands of microorganisms entering through the mouth, so basically there is no place for bacteria to survive in the stomach.
But Helicobacter pylori is the only killer that can break through this natural barrier.
Since the eating habits of Chinese people are generally based on dining together, and they rarely share meals or use serving spoons, the infection rate of Helicobacter pylori among Chinese people is relatively high in the world, with an infection rate of 59%, while the infection rate among foreigners is only 25% about.
This bacteria is highly contagious and is mainly transmitted through droplets and mouth-to-mouth, so you may be infected by eating or drinking together.
He recently went back to his hometown to have dinner every day, and even had a banquet for 30 tables. The people who ate with him came from all over the world. It would not be unusual at all to say that there was a Helicobacter pylori infection among them.
In addition, drinking a lot of alcohol irritated the gastric mucosa and promoted bacterial infection.
Helicobacter pylori infection may not necessarily show symptoms. It is usually not obvious when the body is in good health, but when the body becomes worse, it is easy to attack. Old people like him, who have a bad stomach and poor body resistance, are prone to various diseases. Seizures under stimulation are normal.
If not treated early, it is likely to develop into gastric cancer.
Thinking of this, Sun Chengren suddenly broke into a cold sweat.
He had another gastroscopy and was diagnosed with peptic ulcer. It was obvious that this time the gastric ulcer was mainly caused by Helicobacter pylori infection.
The doctor read the examination report and shook his head repeatedly.
"Your disease requires complete eradication of Helicobacter pylori, otherwise it will keep relapsing. Let's try quadruple therapy. I'll prescribe you some medicine first. If you're not allergic to penicillin, then take omeprazole + citric acid." Bismuth potassium + amoxicillin + levofloxacin. Take it for 7-14 days and see the effect."
"By the way, it's best to ask your family members to come over and get checked. This germ is very contagious. Generally, if one person has it, the whole family will be infected."
Sun Chengren's heart skipped a beat as the figure of his daughter Xiaoshi appeared in front of him, and he immediately felt regretful.
Dejected, he returned home and told his wife and daughter what had happened.
Both of them were shocked and immediately went to the hospital for examination, and sure enough, Helicobacter pylori was also detected.
However, the daughter escaped because she was in good health and did not show severe infection.
Because his wife is old and weak, she also has a certain degree of infection. It may be because there is no stimulation from tobacco and alcohol, so it is not as serious as his.
The family sat at home with the confirmed cases, looking at each other, speechless for a moment.
Sun Xiaoshi puffed up her mouth and said angrily: "I'm so angry. I ate a few meals on this special day and got infected by this germ. It's too much. I didn't do anything wrong."
She took out her mobile phone and started searching for relevant information on the Internet, when she suddenly let out an exclamation.
"Dad, I know who infected us. This germ will cause bad breath after we get it. It must have been passed on to us by the guy with bad breath at the wedding banquet. Damn, I still have his WeChat account. I must give him a good scolding. .”
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Sun Chengren quickly stopped his daughter's mischief.
"First of all, you have no evidence. It is best to remind him tactfully. Just say that he has recently been tested for this bacteria and may be infected, and let him check himself. Secondly, this bacteria is very contagious. He may have been at a dinner party. What's the use of scolding someone who's been tricked? I'm a victim just like you."
Sun Xiaoshi curled her lips, lowered her head and sent the message: "Okay, I got it."
Sun Chengren looked at his case and fell into deep thought. After a while, he suddenly cried out in surprise.
"I remembered, didn't our company recently release a specific antibiotic against Helicobacter pylori?"
"This drug is already in the third phase of clinical trials. I have to quickly find the company to apply for a clinical quota."
After saying that, he glanced at the pile of medicines he took home with a look of disgust.
"Everyone says that this quadruple therapy has serious side effects and is more uncomfortable than the disease. There are special antibiotics from the company, so why should I take this?"
