can tb be cured without medication
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Tuberculosis Yes. Active TB disease can be cured with medicine. If you have active TB, you must take your medicine for at least 6 months. TB treatment is free to the patient at the Department of Health & Mental Hygiene chest centers.f people with active TB disease do no take their medication, they can become seriously ill, they can develop germs that are resistant to the TB medications and may even die. But people with active TB disease can be cured, if they have proper medical treatment and take their medication as prescribed.
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Directly observed treatment, short-course For the medical mnemonic, see DOTS (mnemonic). DOTS (directly observed treatment, short-course), also known as TB-DOTS, is the name given to the tuberculosis control strategy recommended by the World Health Organization. According to WHO, The most cost-effective way to stop the spread of TB in communities with a high incidence is by curing it.
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- Experts recommend one of the following: 1  Using one medicine to kill the TB bacteria and prevent active TB. 2  The standard treatment is isoniazid taken for 9 months. 3  Treatment with rifampin for 4 months is another choice. 4  Taking two antibiotics once a week for 12 weeks to kill the TB bacteria.
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TB Disease 10Treatment for TB diseaseTreatment for TB disease: If you have TB disease, you will take several medicines when you start your treatment to kill the TB germs in your body. Like all medicines, TB medicines can have side effects. However, most. people can take their TB medicines without any problems.
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- Most people with TB have infection. People with TB infection have no symptoms and cannot spread TB to others. People with TB disease have symptoms and can spread TB to others.  * People with TB infection can take medicine to keep them from getting TB disease. People with TB disease can usually be cured with anti-TB drugs. To be effective, the drugs must be taken exactly as prescribed.
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- The patient is considered to be free of living bacteria after six months. For latent tuberculosis, the standard treatment is six to nine months of daily isoniazid alone or three months of weekly (12 doses total) of isoniazid/rifapentine combination.
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Taking medicines to treat tuberculosis 1 You can pass TB to people around you. This includes people you live, work, or come in close contact with.  You need to take many medicines for TB for at least 6 months to rid your body of the TB bacteria. You should begin to feel better within a month of starting the medicines.
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Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by bacteria that are spread through the air from person to person. If not treated properly, TB disease can be fatal. People infected with TB bacteria who are not sick may still need treatment to prevent TB disease from developing in the future.eople with TB disease usually have symptoms and may spread TB bacteria to others. A cough lasting 3 weeks or longer is a symptom of TB disease. People with latent TB infection do not have symptoms, but may still need treatment. TB bacteria most commonly grow in the lungs, and can cause symptoms such as:
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- People with TB disease of the lungs or throat can be infectious to others. People with TB in other parts of their body are not infectious. In most cases, after two weeks of taking TB medicine, patients with TB disease will no longer spread germs.
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Overview Many strains of tuberculosis resist the drugs most used to treat the disease. People with active tuberculosis must take several types of medications for many months to eradicate the infection and prevent development of antibiotic resistance.
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- Tuberculosis (TB) Doctors treat tuberculosis (TB) with antibiotics to kill the TB bacteria. These medicines are given to everyone who has TB, including infants, children, pregnant women, and people who have a weakened immune system. Treatment for active tuberculosis.
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Tuberculosis (TB) In the days before antibiotics, TB patients would go to sanitariums for rest and fresh air. Since the discovery of antibiotics, TB rates have declined dramatically but the disease is still a major health problem around the world, causing some 1.7 million deaths a year.
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- With TB infection: You cannot pass TB germs to other people. You can go to work and school. You will need to stay on medicine so you don’t get TB disease. You will need to stay on the TB medicine for 3, 6, or 9 months, depending on what your doctor thinks is best for you.
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Tuberculosis (TB) Treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Resistance to tuberculosis (TB) drugs is a formidable obstacle to effective TB care and prevention globally. Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) is multifactorial and fuelled by improper treatment of patients, poor management of supply and quality of drugs, and airborne transmission of bacteria in public places.
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Taking medicines to treat tuberculosis In some people, the bacteria can become active. If this happens, you may become sick, and you can pass the TB germs to someone else. Even though you do not feel sick, you need to take medicines to treat latent TB for 6 to 9 months. This is the only way to make sure all of the TB bacteria in your body are killed.
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Tuberculosis (TB) People with latent TB infection should be evaluated for a course of preventive therapy, which usually includes taking antituberculosis medication for several months. People with active TB disease must complete a course of treatment for six months or more.
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Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis Usually, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis can be cured with long treatments of second-line drugs, but these are more expensive than first-line drugs and have more adverse effects. The treatment and prognosis of MDR-TB are much more akin to those for cancer than to those for infection.
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Tuberculosis Treatment If you have TB disease of the lungs or throat, you are probably infectious. You need to stay home from work or school so that you don’t spread TB bacteria to other people. After taking your medicine for a few weeks, you will feel better and you may no longer be infectious to others.
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Tuberculosis Doctors seldom use surgery. 1  Doctors will prescribe several special medications that you must take for six to nine months. 2  Standard therapy for active TB consists of a six-month regimen:  two months with Rifater (isoniazid, rifampin, and pyrazinamide);
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Tuberculosis: TB basics, symptoms and treatment Medication can help get rid of the inactive bacteria before they become active. TB was once a widespread disease. It was virtually wiped out with the help of antibiotics developed in the 1950s, but the disease has resurfaced in potent new forms -- multidrug-resistant TB and extensively drug-resistant TB.
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- This is because there is a risk of the infection becoming active. Treatment for latent TB generally involves either taking a combination of rifampicin and isoniazid for three months, or isoniazid on its own for six months.
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- The standard short course treatment for TB is isoniazid (along with pyridoxal phosphate to obviate peripheral neuropathy caused by isoniazid), rifampicin (also known as rifampin in the United States), pyrazinamide, and ethambutol for two months, then isoniazid and rifampicin alone for a further four months.
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- How It Works. These antibiotics kill the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB). Multiple-drug therapy to treat TB means taking several different antibiotics at the same time. This is the first choice of treatment for TB that is growing in your body (active TB disease). Most of these medicines are given as pills.
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Taking medicines to treat tuberculosis With latent TB: 1  You cannot spread TB to other people. 2  In some people, the bacteria can become active. If this happens, you may become sick, and you can pass the TB germs to someone else. 3  Even though you do not feel sick, you need to take medicines to treat latent TB for 6 to 9 months. This is the only way to make sure all of the TB bacteria in your body are killed. When you have active TB, you may feel sick or have a cough, lose weight, feel tired, or have a fever or night sweats.