When I was 8 years old I was diagnosed with TB. I was placed in a sanitorium for a couple of months, then cleared by doctor to leave sanitorium taking meds for the next year. A month later the doctor called and said I could discontinue the medication. Can it become active again even 32 years later?
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many people have inactive TB (tuberculosis), almost everyone have been exposed to TB and get immunity against it, it is something like global natural immunization, it wont come back as long as you are healthey.....remember that it is not your body only, it is in the lungs of about 50-90% of populations (differ according to country).... it come back if your immunity fall down, this occur in these situations: 1- if you got AIDS 2- receiving chemotherapy. 3-bad nutrition and starvation
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Inactive tuberculosis or healed tuberculosis is a scar or a calcified, fibrous, or caseous nodule in the lung pleura, lymph node, or other organ, resulting from previous tuberculosis that has regressed; reactivation is possible. Synonym: arrested tuberculosis, inactive tuberculosis So the answer is no more then anyone else. Just have your chest x-ray yearly. If a spot shows up then have a sputum test. Good Luck.
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yes, tb can become active again. it has inactive/active periods. but i think tb can be cured with antibiotics now, i can be wrong. i would talk to your doctor about.
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