Exactly How to Treat Tuberculosis
The Patients of pulmonary TB (pulmonary TB) is expected tends to increase, it is supported by increasing numbers of poor people and behavior that are less healthy lives, such as smoking. Doctors have no easy task for treating his patients, especially pulmonary TB is a contagious disease caused not only due to the entry of the TB germs into the body of the patient, but also the condition of the body that are less good (bad nutrition) and unhealthy behaviors (smoking) also because of environmental factors that do not support or housing conditions and environments that do not meet health such as slums, which lack basic sanitation and adequate clean water unavailability.
Tuberculosis in children often didn’t cause specific symptoms. Coughing with a long duration is not a major symptom of TB in infants and children. This may be a manifestation of allergic children experienced to anyone. If have active TB, they are treated with antibiotics. Because the bacteria can become resistant tuberculosis (resistant) to a single drug, they will be given a combination of antibiotics. Tuberculosis difficult to cure and the drug should be used for at least six months. If they do not use any drugs, Tuberculosis in the body may become resistant and the drug will become ineffective. Some antibiotics used to treat TB can damage the liver or kidneys. If the Tuberculosis bacteria spread to organs other, which caused various symptoms, among others, rigid in the neck, vomiting and loss of consciousness in the brain and nervous tuberculosis (TB meningitis), Bone swelling hips, knees, feet and hands, in the case of bone and joint TB.