Wednesday 22 September 2010

Tuberculosis treatment

Treating tuberculosis is a very long and sensitive process due to the slow rate of growth of the bacteria in the infected organism and therefore the slow grade of killing it.

In theory, the goal is to cure the infected body off the bacteria and to reduce to minimum the risk of getting other people sick, which may lead to an epidemic. Tuberculosis treatment isn’t very complicated but it’s very strict, some physicians choose the option of giving themselves the treatment to the patients, fearing that they will not take it accordingly, thus making their work in vain and increasing the chancing of contaminating others. This method is called directly observed therapy and it has the highest rate of success in curing this disease.

In the past, tuberculosis was treated as a very serious disease, the patients were taken under strict surveillance, isolated from others in special institutions where they were taken care with the most responsibility and given serious regimes to ensure the best outcome of the treatment. Now, doctors leave it up to the patients to take the treatment without knowing if it’s taken correctly or if it’s taken at all.

Each individual patient receives a plan of treatment especially made for their case of tuberculosis and lifestyle. Tuberculosis treatment consists of various antibiotics that help fight off the infection. Usually there are only two or three antibiotics administered with a specific dosage and at certain time intervals, but in other cases more drugs are used just to be sure that the infected organism doesn’t become resistant to one of the drugs. These medicines are prescribed for a very long period of time – from half an year to nine months, with the possibility of prolonging the treatment because the bacteria is very slow growing and therefore very hard to kill.

In the first stage of the treatment, the antibiotic attack is very aggressive to ensure the success of the treatment and to shorten its period, therefore later on the doses get diminished in quantity and also the period during two alternative antibiotic intakes gets longer. The antibiotic cocktail must be taken even after the patient starts feeling better, because if not treated totally, tuberculosis might reappear.


There is a difference in treatment for each individual but also for each type of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis treatment is given after a series of laboratory tests to ensure that the patient’s organism is responsive to each type of antibiotic. For different types of tuberculosis, the treatment consists of other types of antibiotics, different periods of time, other regimes and also other doses of drugs.

Tuberculosis comes in various forms, classified by the organs it affects. There is pulmonary tuberculosis, the bacteria affects only the lungs, but also extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (the infection spreads to the brain, liver, spine and also other organs). Tuberculosis treatment differs in the latter cases, besides antibiotics there are also used steroids or in the most serious cases, surgery, which is used mainly in spinal tuberculosis.

It is very important to keep the patient under surveillance and also their families and close friends to ensure that the disease won’t get transmitted. It is recommended to have them periodically tested. The patient should also undergo period checkups, to evaluate their general state during the treatment and the evolution of the healing process.

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  5. Very informative! My cousin also had tuberculosis. She is going under treatment, like you said it is a long process. She didn’t even expect this to happen to her. Now days, people don’t have time to take care of their private health and therefore, it is important to have somebody around to do that. Thankfully, my aunt was there to take her to the best physician.

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