Helicobacter pylori test (carbon-13 urea breath test or stool antigen test)

'test and treat'

tests per year, UK, at presentation with uninvestigated reflux-like symptoms ('test and treat')

“Manage uninvestigated 'reflux-like' symptoms as uninvestigated dyspepsia. ... Offer H pylori 'test and treat' to people with dyspepsia.”

NICE CG184, Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease and dyspepsia in adults: investigation and management, sections 1.4 and 1.6, 2014-09

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Tested with a carbon-13 urea breath test, a stool antigen test or validated laboratory serology (1.9.1), after a 2-week PPI washout (1.4.2).

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