Tuberculosis

since tuberculosis is in ur lungs mainly it will affect u breathing. and my spread to other parts of the body

No, you do not. A TB test is a skin test placed in your forearm. You must return to have the test read 2-3 days after it is placed. Do not scratch the TB test or it will turn red. Only your nurse, PA, DR can correctly read the TB test so be sure to go back to have it read.

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this a highly infectious disease of the lungs. the only way it can be spread is air bound.... ex: this is why it is so likely to cme up in jails. the firsrt thing they do is give you a T.B. shot. if after 3 days O.K. than you're o.k. .....T. W.

Whooping cough normally starts off with cold type symptoms. That can include a mild fever or cough. After a week, you will start coughing and it basically sounds like your making a "whooping" noise when you cough. It can be diagnosed by having a physical examination or a blood test. It can be treated with antibiotics and it is good to have early treatment because after three weeks of having the whooping cough, it is hard to get rid of.

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Yes, because it is airborne.

Tuberculosis typically attacks the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. The infection is spread through the air through a cough or sneeze.

The question "what causes a cold, cough, asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis, lung cancer, and cystic fibrosis" is too broad to be explained in one answer. Each condition has it's own causes (example: a cold is from a virus; tuberculosis is from the TB organism). But at the root of each of these is the start of a mechanism or microorganism that causes irritation of the bronchi/bronchioles and lung tissue, restriction of lung expansion, and often resulting in a type of cough specific to that condition or disease. For example, pneumonia can often create serious lung sounds that help define how serious the pneumonia is (such as "rales" or "rhonci") but a general cough from a viral cold usually only produces some wheezing and cough. Again, each of the conditions or diseases you listed have a specific and different causative factor, but each can have direct effects on respiration.

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ya primary complex is acommunicable disease.

a primary complex is a term used to describe tuberculosis of the lungs, this term is used when being applied to children who have the infection. Children is not communicable, it's always been from adult to adult or from adult to child but never from child to child or from child to adult.

I'm not sure what you are looking for exactly but bronchitis and pneumonia have similar symptoms.

Those people who are most likely to contract tuberculosis are those already infected with HIV or AIDS or those people who are homeless and living on the streets as these people are succeptable to catching infections due to their lower immune systems which happens with AIDS and poor diet along with damp living conditions and which in turn leaves them open to all sorts of other diseases and infections too

Yes, TB is curable. The standard "short" course treatment for TB is isoniazid, rifampicin (also known as rifampin in the United States), pyrazinamide, and ethambutol for two months, then isoniazid and rifampicin alone for a further four months. The patient is considered cured at six months (although there is still a relapse rate of 2 to 3%). For latent tuberculosis, the standard treatment is six to nine months of isoniazid alone.

In recent years many strains of bacteria have become more virulent. This is due, in large part, to the prescribing of antibiotics. One may ask, I thought antibiotics kill bacteria. This is true, but to understand how this works, we must delve a little deeper.

Nature has given every organism on the earth defense mechanisms for survival. With people, it is our immune system. With bacteria, it is the principle of a bacteriophage. Bacteriophages are chemical compouds secreted by bacteria to fight off colonies of other competing bacteria. Hence the term anti + biotic or literally, against bacteria. All the original bacteria used to make antibiotics were taken from soil bacteria, grown as a pure culture and the compouds extracted and manufactured. This worked great at first. People were cured of illnesses that had had no cures before. But, the problems we face now are really twofold. First, all the really easy antibiotics have been made and second, the bacteria that we want to kill have become resistant through adaptation. This really is evolution happening in front of our eyes.

There is another problem that has made matters worse. It is the over prescribing of antibiotics when their use was not required. We have all gone to the doctor for a bad cold (which is a virus) and received a presciption for an antibiotic (which have no effect on viruses). This has speeded up the adaptation of bacteria because of their over use. The same is true when animals have a constant supply of antibiotics added to their food to prevent dieases. This allows a constant supply of the drugs inserted in the food chain and eventually into our bodies.I am not saying do not take antibiotics if you are sick. I am saying don't take them unless you really need them. Now back to the question.

A strain of TB has developed that is resistant to almost all antibiotics currently available. There is a period of about six weeks in which to start a series of drugs or there is basically no hope. The mortality rate of this strain is 50%. Not only that, it is extremely contagious. It appears that the strain originated in central Asia and infected many men in Russian prisons. Due to the lack of medical care in these prisons, it has made a jailbreak and is heading out into the general population of the world. As of this date , May 29,2007, a person who was infected with this strain, boarded an airliner in possibly Europe, (details are still sketchy) and flew to Canada and then the United States. He has been placed in quarantine and officials are actively searching for the people that he flew with. If this strain gets into the general population, it will be worse than anything we have been talking about, including the bird flu.

The reason why TB has become a major cause of death with people who have HIV is because such people already have a compromised immune system, making their body weaker and unable to fight off the disease.

This is because if you don't get vaccinated then you could catch TB and maybe even pass it on to your friends or your work colleagues and maybe even die and get very ill.

Yes. Tuberculosis does not give you immunity against the strep throat.

It is complex. TB can indeed cause suffocation from excess fluid (blood or pleghm), however the most common cause of death is simple respiratory failure. Tissue in your lung is killed by TB and eventually you simply cannot absorb enough oxygen. Not to mention TB may spread to other parts of the body can cause organ failure in other places.

Tuberculosis spreads through droplet contact, meaning respiratory route through coughing or sneezing. Microorganisms suspended in warm, moist droplets and may enter through the eyes, nose and mouth surfaces. Person with low body mass index, diabetics, and individuals on immunosuppressive therapy with low immune system are susceptible to Tuberculosis.