Tuberculosis
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 00:31:07
Category: / Science & Technology / Biology
Length: 1 pages (328 words)
Category: / Science & Technology / Biology
Length: 1 pages (328 words)
BASIC SYMPTOMS OF TUBERCULOSIS;
A person with TB infection will have no symptoms. A person with TB disease may have any, all or some of the following symptoms:
A cough that will not go away
Feeling tired all the time
Weight loss
Loss of appetite
Fever
Coughing up blood
Night sweats
TREATMENT FOR TUBERCULOSIS;
Treatment for TB depends on whether a person has TB disease or only TB infection.
A person who has become infected …
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…with TB. As a result many public health authorities recommend Directly Observed Therapy (DOT), in which a health care worker insures that the patient takes his/her medicine.
If the medicine is taken incorrectly and the patient becomes sick with TB a second time, the TB may be harder to treat because it has become drug resistant. This means that the TB germs in the body are unaffected by some drugs used to treat TB.
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