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SUSslimey
post May 2 2016, 08:18 PM


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well.........

mostly clinical........

cough should reduce.
the fever, night sweats, weight loss should be absent
the sputum for AFB should reduce or be negative after some time of treatment

the strain and sensitivity of the tuberculosis would take a lot of time to test

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post May 2 2016, 10:24 PM


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QUOTE(tekoo @ May 2 2016, 10:05 PM)
The problem is, from the beginning I do not have any of those symptom.
No cough, fever, night sweats, and my Sputum AFB is negative.
The only thing is confirmed is I lost weight that's it.

Which is why if they base on those clinical ways, I don't see how is it going to help in my case you see.
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i see...........

then it is likely they treat you based on high suspicion of exposure and probably where tb is endemic, not an easy decision to start you on treatment.......unless no other cause of weight loss or very suggestive chest x-ray


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post May 6 2016, 05:07 PM


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QUOTE(ExCrIpT @ May 6 2016, 04:27 PM)
Thank for you ur reply.  So if the person's body managed to contain the bacteria that person is not infectious? What if that person suddenly starts coughing, will it be infectious? Usually when a person cough they usually brush it off as normal coughing.  Will tb spread through sharing of drinks or food?

I have people continuously being exposed to the patient who is tb positive. The patient is also having lung cancer and she is 80 yrs old hence she requires people to take care of her all the time.  Having her putting on a mask will create great discomfort for such an old lady.  And worse, she is unable to take her tb meds because her intestine could not handle such heavy dosage of meds daily.  She has Ben vomiting all the meds out Everytime she takes them.

Will her caretakers eventually be infected with tb once their immune system drops?
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it is very hard for a healthy person to get infected and to have active pulmonary tb. everyone has been exposed to tb at some point of their lives'

it takes a lot of exposure and time with proximity to get infected.


anyway........if the person is missing medication or not tolerating the medication........time for a visit to the hospital/clinic.

there's only 1 type of mask that is "safe" for people handling with tb.........the n95 and above mask...........normal surgical mask do not help at all

also........if you know that you have been exposed to tb and you have a prolonged cough........better have it checked out to ensure it is not tb

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post May 6 2016, 07:28 PM


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QUOTE(Ramjade @ May 6 2016, 06:53 PM)
Now that's worse. If some kind of drugs managed to get into the system (without the full dosage), the TB will develop into multiple/extreme drug resistant strain which needs longer term antibiotics (1-2 years) with more severe side effects.

They can wear N95 mask to protect themselves. It's possible if  no protection is worn. A normal mask (white side outside) offers only 40% protection. Can wear double or triple mask but no evidence shows how effective wearing multiple layers.

Again they can get infected but if body cannot contain the infection, a person gets TB. If TB is contained, the person is not infectious until it reactivate. So again, it comes back to the immune system.

Precautions can be taken other than mask. Buy the single gas burner/induction cooker/slow cooker, slowly simmer the following :
Cinnamon sticks (better if you can blend into powder)
Rosemary herbs
Serai
Pine leaves (make sure it have the fresh pine scent when you break them)

Replace them regularly like every 3 hours or else not effective in decontaminitaing the air.
The above is a crude DIY essential oil air decontaminator.
Best is if you can get 100% pure essential oil to disperse into the air.

TB is airborne, and spread through air which makes it hard to control.  It don't spread through food.
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on the subject of reducing the concentration of the tb microbs in the air the best method is still ventilation.

ideally have the room in "negative pressure" : something like a exhaust fan extracting air out of the room constantly and having only 1 opening which is closed most of the time, the door.

so the air in the room constantly gets replaced..........

if you want to be fancy you can install uv lighting in the air exhaust tube and also in the room(something like a uv tube on the inside of a pipe like structure and a small fan blowing air through it).



 

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