Does oral antibiotic treatment of Helicobacter pylori lead to persistently reduced intestinal colonization rates with Oxalobacter formigenes?
Antibiotics for HP infection effectively reduced colonization with OF, an effect present at 1 and 6 months after treatment. The lasting elimination of OF could be associated with hyperoxaluria and be a factor in recurrent kidney stone disease.
In general Dutch YHC physicians have a relative positive attitude towards IP; more than half of the respondents used one or more forms of CAM and one third recommended CAM therapies. However, the majority of YHC physicians did not ask their clients about CAM use and seemed to have a lack of knowledge regarding CAM.