Iqaluit project eyes link between tummy troubles-climate change
Climate change, which affects food security, may also lead to an increase in stomach illnesses among Inuit.
That’s according to the “Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change” project.
This project sent researchers in to Iqaluit to conduct 20-minute interviews with Inuit in Iqaluit about what they eat, whether or not they hunt, and whether or not they have stomach problems, such as vomiting or diarrhea, which are among symptoms of acute gastrointestinal illness.
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Gastrointestinal illness is spread by poor sanitation, most particularly by failure to wash hands after using the bathroom and before preparing food. It can also be spread by improper human waste disposal practices.
H. pylori is treatable. There's no excuse for all this panic peddling. A course of inexpensive antibiotics along with some Pepto-Bismol - and some of the antibacterial soap that environmentalists hate - should be enough to curb this problem.
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