Treatment And Prevention Of Tuberculosis. The disease belongs to this serious treatable and rarely fatal if treated properly. Step treatment used is administering antibiotics must be spent by the person with TB during a specific period according prescription.
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The types of antibiotics that are used are isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide and ethambutol. Like all other medications, antibiotics for TUBERCULOSIS also have side effects, especially rifampicin and ethambutol. Rifampicin may decrease the effectiveness of contraceptives containing the hormone. Whereas ethambutol can affect people with eyesight condition.
Other side effects from the drugs TB is nausea and vomiting, decreased appetite,jaundice, dark urine, fever, rash and itching on the skin.
Healing time varies in each person with TB and depends on people with health conditions as well as the severity of TB. People with the condition began to improve and will generally stop contagious after 2-3 weeks and drank the medicine. But to ensure the recovery of total, person with TB should use antibiotics given doctors over the past 6-9 months.
If a person with appropriate medication did not drink recipe doctor or stop drink it before the recommended time, then the doctor could not TB bacteria disappear completely from the body although people with condition feel is improving. The TB infection also has the possibility of her becoming antibiotic resistant. If this happens, the TB will be more difficult to treat so it needs the healing period is much longer, which is about 2-2.5 years.
Prevention Of Tuberculosis
The main steps in the prevention of TB is to receive vaccines BCG vaccine TB i.e(Bacillus Calmette-Guerin). In Indonesia, this vaccine is included in the list of compulsory immunization and given before the baby is three months old. BCG vaccine is also recommended for young children, teenagers as well as adults who have never received it at the time. But please keep in mind that the effectiveness of this vaccine will be reduced in adults.
In addition to vaccination, you also can prevent TB by always wearing a mask in public places, if interacted with people with TB, and wash your hands regularly (especially medical workers).
People with TB can transmit the disease if it is not undergoing treatment completely. If you have TB, these steps will be very useful to prevent its spread to the House.
- Cover your mouth when You sneeze, cough, or laugh and put on the mask.
- Make sure your home has a good air circulation, for example, often open the doors and Windows to let fresh air can enter.
- Stay at home and do not sleep with someone else's roommate until at least a few weeks after undergoing treatment.
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