What is Tb, Symptoms and Treatment

A person with TB Disease will have no symptoms. A person with active TB disease may have any or all of the following symptoms:
  •  feeling sick or weak
  •  loss of appetite and weight loss
  •  Chest pain
  •  Coughing up blood
  •  Night sweats
  •  Chills
  •  Loss of appetite
  •  Constant fatigue
A Tb may affect on the lungs which can produce lungs cancer. firstly consult with tb specilists doctor or lungs doctor and finding best tb hospital .follwing we discuss about the treatment of tb


The first line drugs are:
  • Isoniazid
  • Rifampicin
  • Pyyrazinamide
  • & Ethambutol

TB can usually be cured and more than twenty drugs have been developed for treating from tb specilist Doctor But most of the drugs were developed many years ago. The treatment usually consists of a combination of drugs that must be taken for at least six months. But the treatment will only be successful if the drugs are taken exactly as required for the entire length of time.
The drugs are used in different combinations in different circumstances. For example, the five “first line” drugs are given to people who have never had treatment before. If people have had treatment before they may need to take second line drugs.


You will need to have TB treatment for at least six months, to make sure all the TB bacteria are killed. If you have TB of the lungs  or throat, after two weeks of treatment you should no longer be infectious.
Gradually you will start to feel better. This may take weeks, but you will stop feeling sick and tired all the time. Even when you feel better, it’s important to take the full course of your treatment, or you could become ill again

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