Mum says £7 test could have saved son who caught 'stomach-eating' bug while travelling
A mum is campaigning for backpackers to take a £7 test on return from their travels - as she believes her son died from cancer caused by a 'stomach-eating bug' he could've picked up while abroad.
She added: "The symptoms of stomach cancer are either non-existent or so mild people pass them off as indigestion until it is too late." However, the UK Health Security Agency say that as H. pylori is an infection present in the UK as well as abroad, there is no current data to suggest that travel is a risk factor for developing infection. Rebecca says that her son was scrupulous with hygiene and was aware to wash his hands often when backpacking, and made sure to not drink the tap water.At the time, he believed he caught a bug from food there - as it can be washed in tap water.
He never made it to the endoscopy as he was already dying. "It was totally devastating," Rebecca said. "Hearing he had cancer hit me in the gut with a baseball bat. I couldn't believe it - he was apparently fit and healthy, had a good diet, and only drank socially. It was terrible." The cancer had blocked his stomach and so in January 2021, he went into surgery to remove it - at a time when hospitals couldn't have visitors amid the coronavirus lockdown. They thought it had worked, only he came home to die a few weeks later.
"I know a test could have saved him," she asserted. "It's a reasonable test with antibiotics to treat it. They [Government and agencies] aren’t warning about it in advice for travellers. They warn you about specific areas if you need malaria pills, and warn you about diarrhoea.... this bug slowly eats away at the stomach and buries into the lining, it doesn’t like stomach acid, so you might not know you have it.
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