My best friend has just been diagnosed with TB. I want to help her in any way that I can. How contagious is it? How is it passed? What kind of treatment it there? Will it kill you no matter what? Anything you can possibly tell me, please do!
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http://www.dhpe.org/infect/tb.html Pretty much all you need to know
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TB is a common but sometimes deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria, which usually attacks the lungs but can also affect multiple systems throughout your body. TB is spread through the air, but only from people that have active TB - not latent. Treatment for TB uses antibiotics to kill the bacteria, usually requiring six to twelve months of treatment. I hope that this provides a little bit of information that you were looking for. I would check out the Wikipedia page on TB - it provides a lot of helpful information.
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Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection, usually confined to the lungs, but can occur in bone, the meninges (TB meningitis), and other organs. Early tuberculosis, and practically all childhood TB in the US presents like pneumonia and is not very contagious. But sometimes a pocket of infection in the lungs erodes into the bronchial tubes, after which the TB germs are coughed up in the sputum. Such persons are very contagious. Ordinarily the TB germ spreads very slowly in the human body, and many healthy persons can contain the infection successfully. Infants, small children, malnourished individuals, chronically sick persons and persons with HIV/AIDS are more susceptible and the disease progresses much more rapidly. Ditto for persons on high doses of steroids, maybe even lower dosages. There are several antibiotics effective against TB. Unfortunately some multiple resistant strains have emerged, making treatment more difficult. But odds are, your otherwise healthy friend should be OK.
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If she takes treatment regularly, she will be non infectious to others in 2 to 4 weeks. She needs regular treatment for at least 8 months, presuming that this is TB of the lungs. She should be cured completely. TB may flare up later when she becomes old and weak or immunocompromised due to any cause. She should take a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables, and get sunshine and fresh air
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