Tuberculosis

I don't know if the illness specifically makes you lose weight, I doubt it. But during most illnesses you lose weight because your diet grows considerably smaller. You eat a lot less, so you consume far less calories than you normally would. The illness itself generally doesn't cause weight loss. There are some that do, however, but I don't think Tuberculosis is one of them.

Mycobacterium smegmatis is a non pathogenic organism so it is used in labs to study about Mycobacterium tuberculosis .

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No. The homeless and HIV+ populations are infected with TB at higher rates because of environmental and physical susceptibility to the disease. However, TB is a contagious infection and individuals with active TB infection who are not in treatment should be avoided.

There is no vector for the spread of TB.It is primarily spread person to person

no it was only discovered in world war 2

droplet

Tuberculosis

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are usually given at a clinic, hospital, or doctor's office. Sometimes the tests are given at schools or workplaces and may be a pre-employment requirement

produce antibodies to help kill germs

Tuberculosis is highly contagious, airborne, and occurs mostly in the lungs, meaning it causes lots of coughing. Coughing itself helps spread the disease, and it's incredibly damaging, and fatal to infants, so preventing its spread is incredibly important.

Not at all. . If he is suffering from such a dangerous disease, the patient must take care of himself until he is completely cured. After cured tb. He can do anything he want.......

a person who carrier a stage 3 tb it can prolnged upto 3mos.

yes it can...i suffered with leg pain on and off for a couple of years and finally a doc said it woz my bad diet, and cud actually feel poo when massaging my tummy, after eating brill for years it went. starting eating crap again and the leg pain is back

To get tuberculosis, a person must be exposed to the air exhaled by an infected person for an extended period of time in a confined area.

the results will not be accutare... and you will get a positive result.

Isoniazid does not affect hormonal birth control, but rifampin may. If your TB regimen should change, be sure to check out any new possible interactions with your pharmacist or health care provider.

The Philippines government use many of the same strategies all countries do in trying to control one of the most common infectious diseases in the world.

1) Screening - the government is working with international funders and the US to build lab capacity, training and infrastructure to run the most common tests for TB: PPD, X-ray, sputum smear microscopy and culture. Placing the PPD test intradermally and reading the test site 48-72 hours later is sometimes difficult in places like the Philippines, where access to clinics and hospitals is not as easy as in the US. Most diagnosis is done after disease has manifested; few latent disease cases are detected. X-rays are only available in big city hospitals.

2) Medication - treatment of TB and, most importantly, prevention of antibiotic resistant TB, requires multiple drug therapy. The four first line drugs are isoniazid, ethambutol, rifampin and pyrazinamide. These are given at the outset of treatment while testing for resistance is conducted and, if no resistance is detected (the process can take months to grow cultures and test) the treatment is adjusted to two drugs, usually Isoniazid and Rifampin. There are other drugs, combination drugs and different dosages and durations used.

3) Adherence - treatment of TB in the best case can take as long as 6 months. Even in the US, few people will continue taking medication once they feel well and even fewer in developing nations where people have barriers to obtaining treatment and competing needs that outpace adherence to a disease which is no longer making them feel sick. Development of Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) programs, in which trained paramedical workers in conjunction with a case management nurse monitor the patient and observe them taking the medicine for the duration of treatment.

4) Contact Investigation - household and close social contacts of TB patients are at risk of developing TB. These individuals should be examined for TB by placement of a PPD and, if no disease is detected, a course of INH to preventively treat the exposure and destroy the possibility of developing disease.

In the Philippines and other emerging nations, there are major problems with unregulated access to over the counter antibiotics. Sometimes, individuals are able to take just enough medication to make the sputum and culture tests come out negative. Also, the chance of developing a resistant strain of TB is high under these circumstances.

Many people emigrate from the Philippines to the US - in Hawaii, the highest TB rate state in the US, the bulk of newly detected cases are found in foreign-born individuals, usually from the Philippines. Although there are some safeguards in place through the immigration process, many cases still surface years later.

Through the Department of Health, the Philippine government is implementing the National TB Program. This program is being implemented nationwide. Its aim is to detect active TB cases and cure them.

The TB organism (Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, a type of bacteria) is projected airborne when an individual with active TB sneezes, coughs, speaks or sings and someone else inhales the respiratory droplets. Transmission requires close, frequent and/or prolonged exposures. Infection occurs when these particles are inhaled into the lungs, where it settles and begins to grow.

Signs and symptoms of TB may include the following:

A cough lasting 3 weeks or more (may produce discolored or bloody sputum).

Unintended weight loss

Fatigue

Slight fever

Night sweats

Chills

Loss of appetite

Pain with breathing or coughing (pleurisy)

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Tuberculosis

It can irritate the site and give you a false positive