First of all, stop the treatment and verify the persistence of the infection after a 30-45 day period with a non invasive test. then, if still infected, a quadruple bismuth-based should be the choice.
Clarithromycin is contraindicated in patients with hypersensitivity to the macrolide antibiotics and should be used with caution in patients with liver disease or certain heart problem such as QT prolongation, or who are taking HIV drugs. For these patients, dual therapy may be a useful therapeutic option for H. pylori infection,
dual therapy with 750 mg amoxicillin and 30 mg lansoprazole three times daily for 2 weeks was similar in effectiveness to the standard triple therapy and had fewer side effects when given as first-line treatment for H. pylori.
Macrolide antibiotics affect cellular recepters e.g. enhance motilin receptor in the GIT and similarly on cardiac myocytes and this effect might be also similar to the effect of prokinitic drug Cisapride
prolonged Qt was not identified, some patients presented diarrhea that was self-limited, tolerable. If there is no tolerance or allergy to penicillin or treatment failure,quadruple therapy with bismuth, tetracycline, furazolidone, and omeprazole was given for 10 days.