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Tuberculosis
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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A small amount of greenish or yellow sputum may be coughed up when the person gets up in the morning. In time, more sputum is produced that is streaked with blood. Persons with pulmonary TB do not run a high fever, but they often have a low-grade one.
Is it safe if your breastfeeding while your diagnose with tuberculosis?
no! its not safe.
Mothers with untreated and active tuberculosis should not breastfeed their babies. Tuberculosis is an infectious disease most commonly spread by adults who have active tuberculosis. so this could spread to yyour new born child. you can get medicinces from the doctor though. :)
What is the common and scientific name for tuberculosis?
Hey...tuberculosis it self a scientific name for disease.....also abbreviated as T.B. although in clinical practice it also called as"kox" or K-chest for pulmonary(lungs) tuberculosis
What is an increase in the incidence of tuberculosis is due to?
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What exercises needed for tb patients?
we can just walk for 5 or 8 min.....if u will put pressure on ur body during exercise ,it can be harm your lungs...do not try to pick up heavy things and don't stretch your body...i advice full rest...
Is Tuberculosis a DNA or RNA virus?
Tuberculosis is a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is not caused by a virus.
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Why do tuberculosis patients sweat at night?
Tuberculosis patients sweat at night for a few reasons; first, they have a serious disease which affects their breathing. If they are not breathing normally, their lungs must work extra hard to both inhale, and exhale. Since the lungs are working so much harder than they should be, the work causes the patient to sweat. What some people don't know, is that tuberculosis isn't merely a lung condition which causes excessive coughing. The respiratory system can have an impact on virtually any given part of the body, including stable internal conditions (temperature of the interior body.) Someone with tuberculosis may experience the following, as a result of the respiratory system being a vital part of health.
Nausea
Sudden rise in temperature
Feverish symptoms
Dizziness
Loud, deep, and painful cough
Chest pain
Feeling of bloating in head area.
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How Tuberculosis bacteria is harmful?
It is a contagious disease that kills people. Not very helpful.
Can tuberculosis transfer by french kiss.?
Yes.
Tuberculosis and spread just when a person with the disease coughs, because of the bacteria they send into the air. If they directly kiss you, especially with a French kiss, you are prone to getting the disease, too.
How many people die from tb a year?
Africa is the home to 11% of the world's population yet it carries 29% of the global tuberculosis cases and 34% of related deaths. As a disease TB is the second most deadly in the world, killing roughly 5000 people every day, which is approximately 1.8 million a year. If we let TB spread without check-ups for the next 20 years, 1 billion new infections would occur, 230 million of which would develop active TB, and 35 million would die
Tuberculosis is a disease caused by an infection with the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
During the 19th century, up to 25 per cent of deaths in Europe were caused by this disease. The death toll began to fall as living standards improved at the start of the 20th century, and from the 1940s, effective medicines were developed.
However, there are now more people in the world with TB than there were in 1950, and 3 million individuals will die this year from this disease - mainly in less developed countries.
The disease is more common in areas of the world where poverty, malnutrition, poor general health and social disruption are present.
In the UK, too, the number of TB cases is again rising. Alcoholics, HIV-positive individuals, some recent immigrants and healthcare workers are at increased risk.
The disease is most commonly found in places such as hostels for the homeless, prisons, and centres for immigrants arriving from areas with high rates of HIV infection or inadequate health provision.
How does tuberculosis disease effect healthy cells?
tuberculosis disease affects the cells of the lungs. They infect them with the tuberculosis bacilli making the host vulnerable to other infections in the body.
How accurate is a tb skin test?
Skin allergy testing is usually done by placing a series of adhesive patches on the skin containing potential allergens, or allergy-causing substances.
How does tuberculosis reproduce?
Tuberculosis reproduces through the air and often on contact. It is spread through coughing, mucus, sneezing, and reproduces very quickly.
What is the difference between tuberculosis and cancer?
Both are harmful. TB is an infectuous disease- meaning you catch it from someone else. It is caused by a mycobacterium, and usually infects the lungs. If not treated, can be fatal, but there are drugs that can cure it.
Cancer is generally not a contagious disease, and affects many different parts of the body, depending on what type of cancer. Some cancers can be treated with good results, others are harder to treat. There are too many different forms of cancer to give a simple answer- sorry.
What types of microbes cause tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis, commonly known as TB, is an infectious disease caused by infection with the Mycobacterium tuberculosisbacterium.
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Tuberculosis, commonly known as TB, is an infectious disease caused by infection with the Mycobacterium tuberculosisbacterium.
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Is tb communicable or non communicable disease?
TB is a communicable disease. A communicable disease is a disease that can be passed on in one way or another from a Carrier of the disease to some one else. and is usually the result of a virus or bacterial infection.
What did tuberculosis used to be called?
The name comes from the small lumps or "tubercules" that form in the lungs.
"Tubercule" is the diminuitive of the Latin word "tuber" that comes to us unchanged to describe a type of fleshy root in English. It could be translated literally as "small potato".
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.
