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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease usually attacks the lungs can actually affect any other part of the body as well. TB is extremely contagious — one person is infected with Tuberculosis bacilli each second in the world! Tuberculosis is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and has three stages: exposure, infection and the disease. Join this forum to discuss topics related to tuberculosis!

Is surviving with one lung possible? My left lung is damaged and I'm an oxygen dependent patient

Is surviving with one lung possible? My left lung is damaged and I'm an oxygen dependent patient waiting for the medical aid to approve portable cylinders to take home. Is it possible to shut the left Lung and live on one and not depend on oxygen cylinders for the rest of my life?  

by User avatar Guest

I had PTB and successfully healed it, only scar left. Can it return again?

I have PTB before and the doctors said 2 months only i will take the medicine and after 2 months I finish the medicine and go my doctor and x-ry again its heal and scar only .. And i want to ask it would be return again? i smoke sometimes. 1day 6 stick sometimes 1 to 3 days im not...

by User avatar Mika

Presence of fibrohazed densities in right apex presumably due to PTB of undetermined activity?

Answered by a doctor

hi if can someone help to understand this' the presence of fibrohazed densities in right apex presumably due to PTB of undetermined activity' its for my mother hmmmm and then were planning to go to PDDtest for the PTB but my mother said shes not coughing any plhegm can pdd test detect it even if its...

by User avatar JEN

x-ray result: impression is bilateral upper lobe infiltrates, consider the possibility of PTB

hi i want to know if what is the meaning of my x-ray result the doctors IMPRESSION is BILATERAL UPPER LOBE INFILTRATES CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY OF PTB. thanks

by User avatar Guest

How to cure PTB?

How to cure PTB?

by User avatar Guest

My xray was left upper lobe opacities suggestive of ptb with cavitary formation

My xray was left upper lobe opacities suggestive of ptb with cavitary formation

by User avatar CHuckie

There are reticulonodular opacities in both upper lobes consistent with pulmonary tuberculosis?

Answered by a doctor

What does it mean. There are reticulonodular opacities in both upper lobes consistent with pulomonary tuberculosis of undetermined activity.

by User avatar cquiroga355371

Living With One Lung, it seems like I am facing problems during my job search

I live in pune(India). Now Iam 26 ys old. I had TB between 1993-94 due to which my one lung is impaired by 80% and other by 20%. Therefore I have one lung only. That time i was four yr only. Now I have completed my master engineering. But some point i feel that I am lack of comparing to other normal...

by User avatar masal.vaishali355164

how to treat my girl aged 4.5, she has A Positive Mantoux Test 20mm

PLZ TELL ME, IF IT AFFECTS HER BRAINS, MEMORY AND STUDY?

by User avatar _masila_

Mantoux test advised by the doctor because of small bulge types

Sir,  I am suffering, with small  bulge types which occurring when I apply some ointment it disappears and come again.       So,  Doctor prescribed me Montoya test Plz give me advise  

by User avatar Rasheed