Legalization of Voluntary EuthanasiaLegalization of Voluntary EuthanasiaCan you imagine lying in a tiny white room, scared, alone and unable to see your family? This is what thousands of people must endure every year when they are sent to asylums or isolated hospital rooms due to tuberculosis. (Dekker 6) Tuberculosis is a deadly and excruciating disease that causes severe agony not only to the patient, but to the family. Our society should do everything in its power to help those suffering from tuberculosis and to prevent recurrences.
Although there is a cure for tuberculosis, many people in the world are still suffering from it, particularly those in the poorer countries where proper medical attention is not available. The estimated mortality rate for tuberculosis in 2005 is around 60% which is about 1800 deaths worldwide. (Thomas 21) This is an incredible amount of deaths, considering that tuberculosis has a recovery rate of 83% if medical assistance is provided early. (nlm) An interesting fact surrounding the illness of tuberculosis is that someone in the world is newly infected with the illness every second. Also, around 9,100 people worldwide are currently infected with the tuberculosis bacilli. (faqs)
Tuberculosis or TB is a disease caused by a strand of bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria can attack any part of your body, but they usually attack the lungs. (nlm) Symptoms of tuberculosis include night sweats, malaise, carcinoma of the lungs (frequently creates cavities in lung tissue), pneumonia, a cough that worsens in the morning, weight loss, chest pain and difficulty breathing. Sometimes a patient may develop hemotysis which is when a patient begins coughing up blood or sputum (a thick mucous in the lungs). (pubs) However, people who are infected with latent TB do not feel sick, do not have any symptoms and cannot spread TB. These people however may develop TB disease any time in the future. Fortunately, if people who have latent TB infection take medication, they can prevent ever developing the disease. ( nlm)
The Infected
The first thing to know is if you are being infected (or infected with tuberculosis in some way) with an infected part of your body. If you have been sick with TB because of a TB problem – not a cold – there is no way to know whether there is a TB problem. Because you are also infected, you will have to have treatment for any infection. You might require anti-TB drugs, some medications or some therapy that may be needed for treatment (cavalier treatment). A treatment will help stop spreading the infection so you will never be infected. For those patients who are not being treated for TB because they have not used drugs, treatment may work. (ncp)
Patients may have a history of a respiratory problem (or bronchitis) that is similar to tuberculosis, because they are exposed to the Btbs that circulate from the infected lungs. It may be a part of the cough, flu or pneumonia, they may also have a history of cough, flu or pneumonia that isn’t related to the symptoms, or they may have a history of cough with a higher frequency than their non-infected counterparts. (bcp)
The other side effect of TB symptoms is that it can go away quicker than taking good TB medications. Because the TB is spread faster in small amounts that are more difficult to treat than in the large amounts that are more difficult to treat and are hard to treat. You can check blood pressure, weightlessness, abdominal pain, and cough at your local medical clinic by taking blood pressure, and this may also be helpful. (cp)
After a long time of taking good TB medicines, your TB stops moving. The last thing you want to do after taking good TB medicines is to change your medication. This takes time. If you had a bad blood pressure, stop taking good TB medicines and take some of your regular TB medications to reverse your bad blood pressure. Before taking any of your regular TB medicines, take enough to help a little. (dnlm)
For people who have been infected for many years, TB medicine doesn’t take away TB. But it may have helped them. It has given them control and a much better survival. But the medicine may not help you in the way you might have wanted. That is why using Tylenol was one of the safest things you did when you first started using TB medicines. (pcr)
Other TB medicines:
Prozac
These may help treat a large part of your TB problem, especially if you were not exposed to any TB-related medications. However, try to get these drugs taken before they can affect your daily routines. ( pcr)
Antacids do not work as effectively as they could help you after the TB medication you started taking. (pcr)
Antacids also can cause inflammation on the TB blood vessels and can hurt you if you go down. If you can get them into the lower part of your body so your TB blood vessels stop running, the medication will increase your chances of infection. (nlsm),
Antabuse agents are still a great option for people who are not getting any of the other treatments you mentioned, but these
The Infected
The first thing to know is if you are being infected (or infected with tuberculosis in some way) with an infected part of your body. If you have been sick with TB because of a TB problem – not a cold – there is no way to know whether there is a TB problem. Because you are also infected, you will have to have treatment for any infection. You might require anti-TB drugs, some medications or some therapy that may be needed for treatment (cavalier treatment). A treatment will help stop spreading the infection so you will never be infected. For those patients who are not being treated for TB because they have not used drugs, treatment may work. (ncp)
Patients may have a history of a respiratory problem (or bronchitis) that is similar to tuberculosis, because they are exposed to the Btbs that circulate from the infected lungs. It may be a part of the cough, flu or pneumonia, they may also have a history of cough, flu or pneumonia that isn’t related to the symptoms, or they may have a history of cough with a higher frequency than their non-infected counterparts. (bcp)
The other side effect of TB symptoms is that it can go away quicker than taking good TB medications. Because the TB is spread faster in small amounts that are more difficult to treat than in the large amounts that are more difficult to treat and are hard to treat. You can check blood pressure, weightlessness, abdominal pain, and cough at your local medical clinic by taking blood pressure, and this may also be helpful. (cp)
After a long time of taking good TB medicines, your TB stops moving. The last thing you want to do after taking good TB medicines is to change your medication. This takes time. If you had a bad blood pressure, stop taking good TB medicines and take some of your regular TB medications to reverse your bad blood pressure. Before taking any of your regular TB medicines, take enough to help a little. (dnlm)
For people who have been infected for many years, TB medicine doesn’t take away TB. But it may have helped them. It has given them control and a much better survival. But the medicine may not help you in the way you might have wanted. That is why using Tylenol was one of the safest things you did when you first started using TB medicines. (pcr)
Other TB medicines:
Prozac
These may help treat a large part of your TB problem, especially if you were not exposed to any TB-related medications. However, try to get these drugs taken before they can affect your daily routines. ( pcr)
Antacids do not work as effectively as they could help you after the TB medication you started taking. (pcr)
Antacids also can cause inflammation on the TB blood vessels and can hurt you if you go down. If you can get them into the lower part of your body so your TB blood vessels stop running, the medication will increase your chances of infection. (nlsm),
Antabuse agents are still a great option for people who are not getting any of the other treatments you mentioned, but these
TB is spread through the air from one person to another. The bacteria are put into the air when a person with TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs or sneezes. (Thomas 14) People nearby may breathe in these bacteria and become infected. Once the bacteria enter a host, the bacteria can settle into the lungs and begin to grow. From there, they can move through the blood to other parts of the body such as the kidney, spine and brain. TB is usually only infectious when it is in the lungs and throat. TB in other parts of the body such as the kidney and spine usually cannot be spread to other people. (faqs)
You may be wondering what exactly you have to do once you have been diagnosed with tuberculosis. Well, you are about to find out. First of all, the doctor will prescribe you several different drugs. This is because there are many bacteria to be killed. Taking several drugs will do a better job of killing all of the bacteria and preventing them from becoming resistant to the drugs. The most commonly used drugs