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By following the accepted medical procedure. If you're a doctor, you should already know what this is; if you're not, you have no business treating anybody.
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Can you kiss your wife who is a TB patient?
No
Is lung tb and brain tb the same virus?
Tuberculosis is caused by the bacteria and not the virus. It is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. yes, both lung's and brain's TB are caused by the same.
What food is better for the tb patient?
A healthy diet is vital for anyone who has TB; foods should include plenty of vegetables and fruits, lean protein, and unsaturates fats.
What specimen from a TB patient would the acid fast stain be performed on?
The specimen is taken from TB lesion
Can you kiss your wife who is a abdominal TB patient?
Yes, one can contract TB from inhaling the infected particles from someone who has TB, so therefore kissing someone with TB will definitely give you the disease.
What is the recommended diet for a patient with tb meningitis?
green vegetable
Why nurses are under no obligation to put themselves at risk?
That's like asking why a firefighter has to right to not be incinerated, it's logical. A nurses job is to care, assist, treat etc. Say under the circumstances of say, a TB patient coming into the hospital, and asking a nurse to not only treat the patient, without any choice, but to not wear a safety mask as well?
Can a fully cured TB patient be suspected to have latent TB?
Yes, it is possible that a person previously diagnosed with active TB and was completely cured be suspected to haveÊlatent TB. Aside from the medicine that cured the patient of active TB, there is also a high chance that the body's immune system has controlled the infection but unable to completely remove it from the body. Hence, the infection remains in the body, lying in an inactive or latent state.
Can penicillin treat tb bacteria?
No. TB is commonly resistant to numerous antibiotics. It's generally treated with a cocktail of antibiotics, none are Penicillin.
Can a patient get TB from a cadaver ligament used in ACL reconstruction surgery?
very unlikely
Will a tb patient remain still contracted with the disease after a full treatment?
With a full treatment TB is completely cured. A reactivation of the disease can sometimes occur after several years
Do you need a special respirator mask before caring for a suspected or confirmed TB patient?
yes
