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well... the only way to prevent it is to have a super healthy immune system.
If you test positive for latent TB infection, your doctor may advise you to take medications to reduce your risk of developing active tuberculosis. The only type of tuberculosis that is contagious is the active variety, when it affects the lungs. So if you can prevent your latent tuberculosis from becoming active, you won't transmit tuberculosis to anyone else.
Protect your family and friendsIf you have active TB, keep your germs to yourself. It generally takes a few weeks of treatment with TB medications before you're not contagious anymore. Follow these tips to help keep your friends and family from getting sick:
- Stay home. Don't go to work or school or sleep in a room with other people during the first few weeks of treatment for active tuberculosis.
- Ventilate the room. Tuberculosis germs spread more easily in small closed spaces where air doesn't move. If it's not too cold outdoors, open the windows and use a fan to blow indoor air outside.
- Cover your mouth. Use a tissue to cover your mouth anytime you laugh, sneeze or cough. Put the dirty tissue in a bag, seal it and throw it away.
- Wear a mask. Wearing a surgical mask when you're around other people during the first three weeks of treatment may help lessen the risk of transmission.
This is the most important step you can take to protect yourself and others from tuberculosis. When you stop treatment early or skip doses, TB bacteria have a chance to develop mutations that allow them to survive the most potent TB drugs. The resulting drug-resistant strains are much more deadly and difficult to treat.
VaccinationsIn countries where tuberculosis is more common, infants often are vaccinated with bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine because it can prevent severe tuberculosis in children. The BCG vaccine isn't recommended for general use in the United States because it isn't very effective in adults. Dozens of new TB vaccines are in various stages of development and testing.
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∙ 12y agoTuberculosis prevention and control efforts primarily rely on the vaccination of infants and the detection and appropriate treatment of active cases.[6] The World Health Organization has achieved some success with improved treatment regimens, and a small decrease in case numbers
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∙ 11y agoGood personal hygiene
Good hand washing and drying
Avoid direct contact
Use personal protective clothing where necessary
Keep areas clean and tidy -use appropriate anti bacterial cleaners
get oneself immunised/vaccinated/inoculated
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∙ 12y agoAvoid going near to patients having active TB lesion, eat healthy, and get regular checkups.
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∙ 11y agoGood personal hygiene including hand wash and drying
Avoid direct contact
Get yourself inoculated/vaccinated
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∙ 10y agoby haveing a 3 foot bubble
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How tuberculosis prevented?
I don't think that you can prevent this disease so to speak, the only way would be to not get exposed to it in the first place. So if you know someone that has TB avoid contact. This is partly true, and partly false. Having been exposed to tuberculosis and having inhaled tuberculosis germs, one can prevent tuberculosis; meaning tuberculosis disease, or TB by taking preventive medicine, primarily isoniazid or INH supplemented by vitamin B6. The course of treatment is typically 6 months. As the previous person commented, if you never get exposed to TB in the first place, there would be nothing to prevent. Persons that breathe in TB germs and do not have active tuberculosis disease have latent tuberculosis infection, or LTBI. The preventive meds, or INH would be prescribed to persons with LTBI in order to prevent them from developing tuberculosis disease, or TB.
What are some preventions for tuberculosis?
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Would wearing a face mask the only way to prevent the spread of tuberculosis?
Yes
Is there a vacine for tuberculosis?
there is vaccines for newborns called BCG given intradermally at deltiod. This vaccine will give 50% protection of Tuberculosis to children. Have all newborn vaccinated with BCG especially to countries where TB is common.
Can you prevent Tuberculosis?
Avoid going near to patients having active TB lesion, eat healthy, and get regular checkups.
What is BCG vaccination?
The BCG vaccine is given to prevent tuberculosis. This vaccine is anywhere between 0 percent and 80 percent effective in preventing tuberculosis.
What is the species of tuberculosis?
i think it is the similar species of tuberculosis.
Difference between Miliary tuberculosis and open tuberculosis?
difference between miliary tuberculosis and tuberculosis
What is the pathogen name for tuberculosis?
The pathogen that causes tuberculosis is Mycobacterium.
what does Tuberculosis do?
It gives you tuberculosis.
What type of microorganism is tuberculosis?
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
What is tuberculosis and how to prevent tuberculosis?
Oftentimes tuberculosis can be asymptomatic, and only show up on skin test or x-ray after exposure. When tuberculosis does become symptomatic, it can be accompanied by a productive cough, shortness of breath, and general malaise.
