tuberculosis positive

lauritz · Gold Member Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Posts: 364

Hi, I have a daughter. She is 14 years old. Lately she had some problems with breathing. Also she was suffering from an annoying chest pain. I have decided to take her to a doctor. They suspect it is tuberculosis. They want to run some diagnosis to be positive that it is tuberculosis, but she is afraid. What will they do to her?

vivyanne · Newbie Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 22

Nothing that you or your daughter should be afraid of. I had the tuberculosis too. In the treatment the most important thing is in the high index of suspicion. The diagnosis can easily be missed in an elderly nursing-home resident or a teenager with a focal infiltrate. Often it is diagnosed by a chest radiograph when respiratory symptoms of a patient are abnormal. The longer the delay between the onset of symptoms and the diagnosis, the more likely is the finding of cavitary disease. So hurry up and do it.

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