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Tuberculosis or TB (Tubercles Bacillus) is an infectious disease and is caused by several strains of mycobacteria. All questions concerning signs and symptoms, causes, transmission, risk factors, treatments and medications can be found here.

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How was Tuberculosis cured in the civil war?

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== == Pneumonia was a particularly unpleasant disease to catch during this time, as doctors were unsure how to treat it. Some patients were "bled," meaning that doctors would open one of their veins in an effort to cleanse the body of diseased blood. This cure often proved fatal. Alcohol, opium and quinine were also popular treatments.

Also, since water was limited and reserved for the war effort, doctors rarely washed their hands while tending to the ill. This, combined with the close quarters soldiers lived in, allowed pneumonia to spread rapidly through a unit.

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Pneumonia was a major cause of suffering and death during the Civil War. Soldiers sometimes went days or even weeks without seeing battle, but disease was ever-present within their camps. The winter months were a particularly deadly time in the North, when pneumonia struck down many of the exhausted, under-fed soldiers. Those already ill or hurt, as well as prisoners, were particularly at risk. Unsanitary conditions inside the soldiers' camps also led to wide-spread disease. Because many of the soldiers were also very young, lack of immunity was also a factor. At this time, doctors in the United States were not knowledgeable regarding what caused the spread of diseases like pneumonia, though this knowledge was common in Europe. This was one reason why outbreaks proved so fatal. One study claims that during a 19 month period during the early 1860s, more than 17 percent of the Confederate army came down with pneumonia. Of these afflicted, one out of every six eventually succumbed to the disease and died. Pneumonia was the third most fatal disease among Civil War soldiers, following typhoid and dysentery. The number of men who died from diseases like pneumonia was double that of the number of men who died from gunshot wounds. Pneumonia often began as an innocuous-seeming cold. But exposure to the elements could easily turn a cold into full-blown pneumonia. Pneumonia is basically a lung infection that can be present in either or both lungs. Coughing (with or without blood and mucus), pain in the shoulder and chest, fever and difficulty breathing were all symptoms of pneumonia that an ill Civil War soldier may have experienced. Pneumonia was a particularly unpleasant disease to catch during this time, as doctors were unsure how to treat it. Some patients were "bled," meaning that doctors would open one of their veins in an effort to cleanse the body of diseased blood. This cure often proved fatal. Alcohol, opium and quinine were also popular treatments.

Also, since water was limited and reserved for the war effort, doctors rarely washed their hands while tending to the ill. This, combined with the close quarters soldiers lived in, allowed pneumonia to spread rapidly through a unit. In general, the Confederacy suffered more than the Union as a result of disease and poor medical treatment. By 1865, the Union had triple the amount of medical officers that the Confederacy did. Some approximate that nearly 2 out of every 3 Confederate deaths were due to diseases like pneumonia, while the Union soldiers fared a bit better, with only 3 out of every 5 deaths attributed to disease . Some speculate that this is one of several reasons why the Union was able to win the Civil War.

The challenges of the Civil War led to many medical advances. As a result of the deadly diseases that claimed so many soldiers, doctors gained a better grasp of the relationship between sanitary conditions, diet, and illness.

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== == == == OK! I found this from http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/pneumonia-treatment-overview

It is about present ways of treament but it may work the same...

Your doctor will choose your antibiotic based on a number of things, including your age, your symptoms and how severe they are, and whether you need to go to the hospital. Although experts differ on their antibiotic recommendations, the first antibiotic used usually is one that works against a wide range of bacteria (broad-spectrum antibiotic). All antibiotics used have a high cure rate for pneumonia.

I hope this help and i wasn't to late!

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What is the surgical treatment for intestinal obstructions?

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The obstructed area is removed and part of the bowel is cut away. If the obstruction is caused by tumors, polyps, or scar tissue, they are removed. Hernias, if present, are repaired. Antibiotics are given to reduce the possibility of infection.

What kingdom does mycobacterium tuberculosis belong to?

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Tuberculosis, or Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, belongs to the genus Mycobacterium. This in turn belongs to the family Mycobacteriaceae. Therefore, Tuberculosis belongs to the family Mycobacteriaceae.

What are Difference between tuberculosis and typhoid ulcer?

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TB ulcer is transverse while typhoid is longitudinal

How does TB enter the body?

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Tuberculosis is transmitted through infected saliva particles that leave a person's mouth when they cough. Coughing into ones hand, touching someone else, and that person touching their nose or mouth could transmit the disease. Tuberculosis is also airborne, meaning if you cough near someone, those particles could affect that person without you directly touching them as well.

Is tuberculosis also known as consumption?

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Because common symptoms were loss of appetite, fatigue and a chronic cough that expelled blood and so the sufferer could be said to have been 'consumed' by the disease as it took over their life until they died, since no one would go near them because it was so contagious, they would no longer go out, eat or socialise. People used to cough themselves to death.

I think anyway.

When did John Doc Holliday get Tuberculosis?

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John Henry ("Doc") Holliday may had either caught Tuberculosis by his mother , Alice Jane (McKey) Holliday (she died from the disease September 16, 1866 when John was 15 [ two years after moving to Valdosta, Georgia from Griffin, Georgia ]) ; or had caught it from one of his patients , while he was a Dentist ( as few of his patients came into his office , coughing and sneezing, while he was working on their teeth ). It is not known exactly when he contracted it, but it is known he had it form the time he was a young man - early 20's, anyhow.

Which of these adaptations helps spread the bacteria that cause tuberculosis?

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Tuberculosis (TB) is spread through oral contact and is extremely contagious.

It is most often caught through coughs an sneezes, though on very rare occasions you can catch it from eating/drinking infected meat from cattle with bovine tuberculosis (BTB)

The problem with TB is that the first time you contract it, it is indistinguishable from a cold, and so is not picked up on and treated. The TB bacteria can then lay dormant in your system for years before you experience the second stage which is the dangerous disease - people used to call it consumption, and many thousands of people died.

This is why it is so important to vaccinate against it.

What is the medical term meaning Tb skin test?

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The medical term meaning Tb skin test is Mantoux. It's a term that refers to a skin test to check for tuburculosis.

What is the icd9 code for pyelitis due to tuberculosis?

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016.00 (tuberculosis)

590.81 (pyelitis)

What are the long term effects of tuberculosis?

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There may be no symptoms of TB or the symptoms may appear several months or years after infection.

Pulmonary TB symptoms that do present will include:

  • Persistent Cough with lots of phlegm.
  • Coughing up blood
  • Fever
  • Tiredness
  • Loss of appetite
  • Weight Loss
  • Night Sweats
  • Chest pain when breathing in.

TB can present in different parts of the body and symptoms can include swollen glands in your neck, joint pain or a headache.

Serious damage to the human body can be caused through undiagnosed, delayed, or untreated tuberculosis. TB can affect the central nervous system, cause brain damage, circulatory system damage, skin, lymph nodes, joints, bones and intestines. TB can also cause permanent lung damage.

How does Tuberculosis cause coughing?

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the body is trying to expell the tb bacteria.

Who invented a vaccine for tb?

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The discovery was made by the French Calmette and Guerin who instituted the basis for the vaccine against tuberculosis by using a low virulence Tb bacteria vaccine. The last step needed in the therapy of tuberculosis was made in the middle of the Second World War when chemotherapy was invented.

What is the diagnosis code for TB test?

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Screening Pulmonary TB V74.1 TB Test Reaction 795.5 Exposure to TB v01.1

Why are elderly people more at risk for TB?

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The aging process itself may weaken the body's immune system, which is then less able to ward off the tubercle bacillus. Finally, bacteria that have lain dormant for some time in elderly persons may be reactivated and cause illness.

What action must be taken if one has been in contact with a tuberculosis carrier?

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what kinds of precations are necssary in tuberculosis

Who discovered the bacteria of tb?

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Dr. Robert Koch discovered the tuberculosis bacillus

Can you kiss your wife who is a abdominal TB patient?

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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 famous people had tuberculosis?

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People who have died from pneumonia:

Albert Schweitzer, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew W. Mellon, Aristotle Onassis, Armand Cardinal de Richelieu, Benjamin Franklin, Boris Karloff, Charlemagne, Charles H. Mayo, Conrad Hilton, "Duke" Ellington, Eli Lilly, Enrico Caruso, Eugene O'Neill, Florence Ziegfeld, Franz Liszt, Geronimo "Groucho" Marx, U.S. President Herbert Hoover, Ivan Pavlov, John Ringling, Leo Tolstoy, Louis C. Tiffany, Mario Lanza, Otto von Bismarck, Pope Pius X, Pope Pius XI, René Descartes, Robert E. Lee, Texas President Sam Houston, Simon Guggenheim, Sinclair Lewis, Sir Francis Bacon, Stonewall Jackson, Tsar Nicholas I, Victor Hugo, U.S. President William Henry Harrison, William Tecumseh Sherman, William Wordsworth

People who have died from tuberculosis:

Amadeo Modigliani, Cardinal Richelieu, Caroline Harrison, C. P. E. Bach, D. H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Monroe, Emily Bronte, Franz Kafka, Frédéric Chopin, George Orwell, Hannah Van Buren, Henry Clay, Henry David Thoreau, Jane Pierce, John Keats, Karl Marx, King Tutankhamen of Egypt, Martha Jefferson, O. Henry, Robert Louis Stevenson, Simon Bolivar, Vivian Leigh, Walt Whitman

People who have died from syphilis:

Al Capone, Erasmus, Ferdinand Magellan, Florence Nightingale, Giovanni Casanova, Gustave Flaubert, Ivan the Terrible, John Keats, King Henry VIII of England, Lord Randolph Churchill, Ludwig van Beethoven, Napoleon Bonaparte, Paul Gaugin, Vincent van Gogh

People who have died from malaria:

Alexander the Great, Martha Washington, Oliver Cromwell, Pope Innocent III, Pope Leo X

What age group is mostly affected by TB?

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Sickle cell is an inherited blood disorder. It is a illness that you are born with.

Is tuberculosis viral or bacterial?

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It is a bacterial illness, contracted by consuming food or water infected with human faeces containing the bacterium Salmonella thyphi.