Does taking BCG vaccination after birth completely prevent TB in the future ?
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No, not necessarily.  There are different strains of TB, some of which may not be entirely prevented by the vaccination.  This vaccine is for the most common strains.\nAlso, if the vaccine itself happened to be manufactured poorly, this would of course lessen the degree of protection.
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If a person's immune system becomes unable to prevent the bacteria from growing, the TB becomes active. Of people who have latent TB, 5% (1 person in 20) will develop active TB within 2 years after the initial infection. Another 5% of people who have latent TB will develop active TB at some point in their life.\n\nIt doesn't look like dormant TB develop into active TB easily. I understand night sweats is a symptom of TB, but one thing should not make you think you are in trouble. You still test positive on PPD even if your TB is dormant. But do see a doctor for your peace of mind.\n\nPeople who have latent TB may be at risk for developing the active disease if they:\n\nHave a condition or disease that weakens their immune system, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, some cancers, or poorly controlled diabetes. \nHave poor access to health care, such as homeless people, migrant farm workers, or people who abuse alcohol or drugs. \nTake medications that contain corticosteroids for a long time. \nHave a condition that results in an impaired immune system, which can occur in older adults, newborns, women who have recently given birth, or people who have had an organ transplant and are taking medications to prevent organ rejection. \nHave a chronic lung disease caused by inhaling sand-like dust (silicosis). \nAre 10% or more under their healthy body weight.
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This is a great question.  I have worked administering these vaccinations for many years.   I have discussed this issue with many parents who are wondering about it.  There are two trains of thought.  First, allow me to say that the incidence of adverse effects from vaccinations are very, very low.  Autism was suspected to be caused from a particular vaccination that used to be used and the thought was that it was from an additive in the immunization and not the immunization itself.  This additive has since been discontinued.  \n\nThe reasons to vaccinate your kids:\n1.  Many of the illnesses that we vaccinate for (rubella, tetanus, measels, Hemophilus influenza type B, etc.) are serious illnesses.  This is why the vaccines exist.  The illnesses themself are bad enough, but the problems that exist after the illness goes away there are problems that linger.  \n\n2.  Vaccinations are required for all public and most private schools.  Unless you can document the reasons why you did not have your children vaccinated, the school reserves the right to require that they be vaccinated (you could get a lawyer to fight this).  The only acceptable reason is if it were against your religion.\n\n3.  Vaccines are safe ways to prevent certain illnesses.  There is a thing called herd immunity.  The theory is that if everyone around you has been vaccinated, then there would be no chance you could be affected by an illness because you wouldn't be able to catch it from anyone.  The problem is that we are seeing a resurgence of these illness, especially mumps, measles, and polio... polio is by far the worst.  The reason is, is that we have trended over the past 15 or so years the percentage of children receiving their childhood immunizations is decreasing.  Therefore this "herd immunity" is no longer effective.  \n\n4.  As I said, vaccines are very safe today.  There may be local reactions to the vaccine like swelling or mild muscle tenderness, but this may last a few days at most.  The illness you can get from not being vaccinated are much worse.  \n\nReasons not to get vaccinated:\n1.. It is against your religion.  \n\n2.  Your child is very sickly and has too many problems that the doctor feels immunization is not healthy.\n\n  This all being said:\nIt is a law that if a child has a serious adverse effect from receiving an immunization, it must be reported.  I am sure that if you were concerned with the rates of serious complications from vaccines, you would be able to have information given to you about the percentages of these complications.  In my many years of administering childhood immunizations, I have never had to fill out one of these forms.  Please look into this if you are concerned.  \nAlso... There are certain vaccines that are available that aren't required.  These include varicella, influenza, meningococcal, and pneumococcal.  Varicella is for chicken pox.  My personal issues with this vaccie is that it doesn't necessarily prevent chicken pox.  They say it lessens the severity of chicken pox if the child gets it at all.  Chicken pox to me isn't really a huge problem, though there are a minority of cases where they are severe enough to cause hospitalization.  Influenza (the flu shot) and pneumococcal (the pneumonia shot) are only used in kids who are at risk.  These include mainly kids with asthma problems.  Meningococcal vaccine is the one for meningitis.  Most colleges now require this vaccination if the student is staying on campus.  I had the option of having this vaccine when I started college.  I decided not to.  I figured that it only protects against one specific kind of meningitis and I have good health habit.  I figured I'd take my chances.  And I never did get meningitis.  Of course that's not to say I never will, but I'm not concerned about it!\n\nI hope this information helps.  I would encourage you to get your child vaccinated especially given the rise in these illness right now
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Sorry to hear about the pain. It happens to most people with the tetanus shot.\nIt will go away in a few days.\n\nI'm sorry I couldn't get this message to you earlier.\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
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Nope. Exposure is different from active disease. You might want to get a Mantoux (PPD) test. If your rash is larger than a centimeter in the widest diameter, it confirms your exposure (not the disease). Though it also turms positive if you got the BCG vaccine. Active disease is diagnosed by the constellation of signs and symptoms like chronic cough, weight loss, fever, palpable lymph nodes. If you experience any of these, the doctor might request for AFB stain. You submit your sputum to the lab first thing in the morning and they stain it for the tubercle bacilli, for 3 days straight. Chest radiographs also show lesions from PTB.
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Nope.. TB is curable.\n\nOnce cured, you will not fail the medical exam.
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The only homeopathic way I know of for a child to get vaccinated is to actually get the disease, since there is no way to synthesize the microbes. The only thing homeopathic medicine could do, I think, is to make the immune system stronger and more responsive, but not offer the same protections as anti-bodies.
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It is a one time vaccine which allows your body to help create antibodies to TB.  So it will only stick around for a period of time, but the fact that your body recognized it as foreign and produced the antibodies it will need if an exposure should occur.
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In order to prevent TB infection, it is necessary to know the cause of spreading this disease.\n(1) Increase in HIV infection.There is a rising number of people in the developed world who contract tuberculosis because they have compromised immune systems, typically as a result of immunosupressive drugs or HIV/AIDS. These people are at particular risk of tuberculosis infection and active tuberculosis disease. One third of deaths of those who are HIV-positive are TB related. Those with HIV are 100 times more likely to develop TB than other members of the population. Other people who are at risk from the disease include those with diabetes, the malnourished, alcoholics, and IV drug users\n \n(2) Increase in number of homeless individuals (poor environment and poor nutrition). Most of those infected (90%) have asymptomatic latent TB infection (LTBI). There is a 10% lifetime chance that LTBI will progress to TB disease which, if left untreated, will kill more than 50% of its victims. TB is one of the top four infectious killing diseases in the world: TB kills 1.7 million, and malaria kills 2-3 million.\n\n(3) The appearance of drug-resistant strains of TB. Multiple drug resistant strains of TB (MDR-TB) and Extreme Drug-Resistance in Tuberculosis (XDR-TB) are emerging. The World Health Organization declared TB a global health emergency in 1993, and the Stop TB Partnership proposed a Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis which aims to save an additional 14 million lives between 2006 and 2015. The development of drug resistant strains now affect up to 50 million people. These strains can be created by bad medical practice such as over-prescribing antibiotics or patients not taking the drugs long enough to get rid of the disease. Instead this encourages the bacteria to become tougher. Treating patients with drug resistant TB is beyond the pocket of many developing countries. The cost of treatment can rise from $2000 per patient with non-resistant TB to $250,000 for multi-drug resistant TB. The multi drug resistant strains are often fatal and have mortality rates that are comparable with those which existed before the development of antibiotics. \n\n(4) Immigration. Some experts also blame lax public health procedures at immigration control for the rise in TB in developed countries. Visitors arriving from less developed countries where TB is more prevalent may get little medical attention even if they admit to having the disease. Among black Africans in Britain TB rose by over 100% between the end of the 1980s and early 1990s. \nThus for preventing TB, co-ordinated effort of skilled professionals, financial support of national governments and of the world community at large are desirable.\nPlease see the webpages for more details on Tuberculosis.
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TB is very contagious. It is spread by droplets. Meaning when someone coughs microscopic droplets hang in the air and you breath them in. You can get TB ANYWHERE!. The mall, in line at a store etc.\nSome people will have a positive skin reaction. But that does not mean that all the time that they have it. It is an indication that they were exposed. Once you test positive on your skin you go for a chest xray. and never have another skin test just a yearly chest xray to make sure you do not have active TB.\n\nAND NO YOU WILL NOT BE FIRED FROM YOUR JOB IN THE HEALTHCARE FIELD\n\nYou will just have to take a six month course of medication.
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Even if you had active pulmonary tuberculosis in the past, that by itself should not affect your fertility. If the infection spread outside of the lung and infected your uterus, then infertility could be a problem. Infection of the endometrium, the lining of the uterus, can be associated with future infertility, but it by no means guarantees that you will not be able to have children. \n\n\n\nFetal oxygenation \n\nOxygen delivered to the placenta and fetus is dependent on maternal arterial oxygen content and uterine blood flow. Any decrease in maternal cardiac output can adversely affect fetal oxygenation. Maternal hypotension and endogenous catecholamines may constrict the uterine artery, decreasing blood flow to the fetus. This can also be caused by maternal alkalosis. \n\nThe umbilical vein PaO2 rarely exceeds 40 mm Hg, but the fetal oxygen content is relatively high. This is largely due to the marked left shift of the oxygen dissociation curve of fetal hemoglobin, which is 80-90% saturated at a PaO2 of 30-35 mm Hg. The oxygenated umbilical vein blood mixes with deoxygenated blood in the fetal inferior vena cava, decreasing fetal arterial PaO2 to 20-25 mm Hg. The fetus has a high hemoglobin concentration (150 g/L) and an increased systemic cardiac output, and both the left ventricle and the right ventricle (via ductus arteriosis) supply the systemic circulation. Small changes in maternal PaO2 can cause large changes in fetal oxygen saturation because the fetus is operating on the steep portion of the oxygen dissociation curve
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No.  Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis, a slow-growing bacteria that thrives in areas of the body that are rich in blood and oxygen, such as the lungs.
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How is TB spread?\n\nTB is spread through the air from one person to another. The bacteria are put into the air when a person with active TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs or sneezes. People nearby may breathe in these bacteria and become infected.\n\nWhen a person breathes in TB bacteria, the bacteria can settle in the lungs and begin to grow. From there, they can move through the blood to other parts of the body, such as the kidney, spine, and brain.\n\nTB in the lungs or throat can be infectious. This means that the bacteria can be spread to other people. TB in other parts of the body, such as the kidney or spine, is usually not infectious.\n\nPeople with active TB disease are most likely to spread it to people they spend time with every day. This includes family members, friends, and coworkers.\n\nLatent TB infection:\n\nIn most people who breathe in TB bacteria and become infected, the body is able to fight the bacteria to stop them from growing. The bacteria become inactive, but they remain alive in the body and can become active later. This is called latent TB infection. People with latent TB infection\n\nhave no symptoms \ndon't feel sick \ncan't spread TB to others \nusually have a positive skin test reaction \ncan develop active TB disease if they do not receive treatment for latent TB infection \nMany people who have latent TB infection never develop active TB disease. In these people, the TB bacteria remain inactive for a lifetime without causing disease. But in other people, especially people who have weak immune systems, the bacteria become active and cause TB disease.\n\n\nActive TB disease:\n\nTB bacteria become active if the immune system can't stop them from growing. The active bacteria begin to multiply in the body and cause active TB disease. The bacteria attack the body and destroy tissue. If this occurs in the lungs, the bacteria can actually create a hole in the lung. Some people develop active TB disease soon after becoming infected, before their immune system can fight the TB bacteria. Other people may get sick later, when their immune system becomes weak for another reason.\n\nBabies and young children often have weak immune systems. People infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, have very weak immune systems. Other people can have weak immune systems, too, especially people with any of these conditions: \n\nsubstance abuse \ndiabetes mellitus \nsilicosis \ncancer of the head or neck \nleukemia or Hodgkin's disease \nsevere kidney disease \nlow body weight \ncertain medical treatments (such as corticosteroid treatment or organ transplants) \nspecialized treatment for rheumatoid arthritis or Crohn’s disease \nSymptoms of TB depend on where in the body the TB bacteria are growing. TB bacteria usually grow in the lungs. TB in the lungs may cause symptoms such as\n\na bad cough that lasts 3 weeks or longer \npain in the chest \ncoughing up blood or sputum (phlegm from deep inside the lungs) \n\nOther symptoms of active TB disease are:\n\nweakness or fatigue \nweight loss \nno appetite \nchills \nfever \nsweating at night
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ONE IS THE BCG.IF YOU ARE IN CONTACT WITH TBC PEOPLE USE THE APPROPIATE GOWNS,REMEMBER VACCINATE,HAVE ALL THE PLCES CLEAN,AND TRY TO HELP THAT PERSON AND SEND HIM TO A DOCTOR.
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Birth -- an infected mother can transmit the Hepatitis B virus and Hepatitis C virus to the baby during delivery or shortly thereafter. \n Infants born of mothers who either currently have acute hepatitis B or who have had the infection receive a special immunization series to prevent viral transmission. This includes administering hepatitis B immune globulin and a hepatitis B immunization within 12 hours of birth. Please consult your doctor.\nPlease see the webpages for more details on Hepatitis.
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According to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines, TB skin testing is safe during pregnancy and there is no reason to delay the test.\n\nhttp://www.med.umich.edu/ehs/tbfaq.htm\n\nTuberculin skin testing is considered valid and safe throughout pregnancy. However, testing with QuantiFERON®-TB and QuantiFERON®-TB Gold has not been evaluated for diagnosing M. tuberculosis infection in pregnant women.\n\nhttp://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/pubs/tbfactsheets/250160.htm
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Hopefully nowhere.\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html