how contageous is tuberculosis?
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The Health Department may ask to come and test everyone at your work anyway, but don't worry about it unless you start feeling unwell.\n\nhttp://www.angelic1healing.com
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I suffer a rare genetic mutation that renders me completely devoid of all seriousness.  it's as though my funny bone grew completely out of control and encompassed my entire skeletal structure.\n\noh, look!  a wombat! ;-Þ
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TB is very dangerous and very serious.  Herbal remedies won't be enough.  You need to follow through with the antibiotic from the doctor.  You must take them for a very long time and you cannot drink alcohol with them, but it is worth it to save your life!  Please reconsider following the doctor's orders -- it is proven that it will help get rid of TB!
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Pulmonary tuberculosis is what used to be called 'consumption,' in the bad old days.  it is a bacterial infection of the lungs.  It is usually passed through oral transmission (like a cold or a flu.)  It can be cured by a course of rest and antibiotics.  here is a good web site with info on treatments and support groups.\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000077.htm
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Sickle cell trait carriers.\nNot sickle cell anemia.\nThe carriers of this trait are resistant from Plasmodium falciprium (aka malaria).\nThis trait is prevalent amongst the African race and provides resistance and gives us another example of evolution.\nAnother example of a helpful mutation happens in Europeans and European Americans, this is the delta-32 mutation.  Having this mutation provides resistance to the bubonic plague and HIV.  This occurs in your immune cells called macrophages that close the membrane that doesn't allow this bacteria and virus to enter the macrophage.  If you have this mutation, you'll never get HIV/AIDS or Bubonic Plague.\n\nLike it or not:\nEvolution has happened, will happen and will continue to happen.
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No... not at all... it has nothing to do with TB or cancer\n\nUnderarm lumps mostly develop in the armpit of that side of your body where there is any painful wound or boil etc.
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Side effects of TB medications vary depending on your body. What I have seen in most people is that they develop fungal infections due to prolonged use of antibiotics. This is so because they say antibiotics kill even the useful bacteria in the body, therefore giving rise to fungal population. In some people it increases the need to eat and one can be seen eating a lot in between meals. Either way, the benefits of taking the drug outweigh the side effects. So, just talk to your doctor should any side effects occur. he will help you with the relief.
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In most cases tuberculosis also called TB is found in one spot usually in the lung or sometimes in a bone.  Actually it can grow in many places in the body but usually just one place at a time.  If your immune system is not working too well the TB germ can spread to lots of areas of the body at the same time.  That is called disseminated tuberculosis.  It takes a good doctor and a very obedient patient to get it under control when it gets to that stage.  Good luck and find a great infectious disease doctor who can really help!
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Some of the TB drugs are available in syrup form. You really have to check your doctor and insist. Also pay a visit to a good pharmacist; they often know more details about drugs than doctors.
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yes,,, but why you worried about only that,, u can also worried about:\ntuberculosis,, malta fever,, cancer,,AIDS,, and alot  alot
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NO its not a disease thus its not contages\nWhat do each of these individuals have in common: First, aneighteen-year-old suddenly develops wheezing and shortness of breath whenvisiting his grandmother who happens to have a cat. Second, a thirty year oldwoman has colds that "always go into her chest," causing coughing anddifficulty breathing. Lastly, a sixty- year-old man develops shortness of breathwith only slight exertion even though he has never smoked. The answer is thatthey all may have asthma.\nThese are some of the many faces of asthma. Most researchers believe that thedifferent patterns of asthma are all related to one condition. Other researchersfeel that separate lung conditions exist. There is currently no cure for asthmaand no single exact cause has been identified. Therefore, understanding thechanges that occur in asthma, how it makes you feel, and how it can behave overtime is vital. This knowledge empowers you to take an active role in your ownhealth care.
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As soon is as legally allowed..........I live 2 miles from the Mexican border in Texas.  People come over, kids or not, and they have never been vaccinated for many of the diseases that we take for granted(whooping cough, measels, mumps, POLIO, TUBERCULOSIS).  We take these diseases for granted because we as a society don't see them as a wide spread problem...but they are.  Working in a South Texas School District, a person has to have a TB test every 6 months.  Why? because the diseace can mutate with every antibiotic that is not taken correctly.  GET YOUR SHOT!!!!!
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pTB is the common abbreviation for pleural tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease.\n\nTuberculosis is contagious only when it is both \n\na) active and\nb) pulmonary (meaning that it is in the lungs).\n\nTuberculosis in other areas of the body (known as extrapulmonary TB) cannot readily be spread to others.\n\nPleural TB is tuberculosis that is present in the pleural space - the area between the lungs and the ribs.\n\nTreatment of tuberculosis is lengthy and somewhat complex.\n\nRead more about extrapulmonary TB at the site linked below:
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A bacterial infection affecting primarily the lungs, more common in urban areas, treatable with antibiotics (though resistant strains are appearing).\n\n an infectious disease caused by the tubercle bacillus and characterised by the formation of tubercles in body tissues, especially in the lungs (consumption. TB)\nwww.tallpoppies.net.au/florey/glossary/main-content.html\n\nan infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that typically affects the lungs (pulmonary TB), but may also occur in other organs (extrapulmonary TB). TB infection refers to asymptomatic, latent infection with TB bacteria; active TB disease refers to symptoms caused by replicating bacteria.\nwww.aegis.com/pubs/beta/1999/be990414.html\nwww.babycenter.com/glossary/T\nhttp://www.osha.gov/SLTC/tuberculosis/
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Keep the children away from them. If a person with TB laughs, coughs, or even talks for that matter, they can infect the people around them very easily, and children and elderly are the most likely to get it. Or, you could wear a face mask but it would need to be changed atleast every twenty minutes.
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Yes, you can cause mutation by reduction/increasing of exposure time or increase/decrease distance of bacteria culture dish from UV source or by use of some filters to reduce UV wave power if it has more power.
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that you have been exposed to TB