Hi! I have a friend whose mother was first diagnosed with a pyogenic spine infection. She was treated with antibiotics and the pyogenic spine infection is gone, but there is spine TBC now. I find it hard to believe that these two diseases are not somewhat connected. Maybe even they treated her for pyogenic infection and it was actually the TBC all the time. What is the best treatment for TBC? Is the prognosis good?
I agree that these two diseases are probably linked, and I think that probably the original pyogenic spine infection damaged the spine which lead to the TBC. Yet, I am no doctor and you should probably talk to someone who is more educated on this matter. I do, however, know a person who had TBC and from his experience I know that TBC of the spine almost never comes first. Usually people have TBC of lungs or kidneys and it then spreads onto the spine, so your friend should have her mother checked for that if doctors already haven’t.
Well I think that the usual course of treatment is antibiotic based therapy. If that doesn’t work, especially for TBC of the spine, the surgery might be the only option. I guess that her doctor, or some other doctor if she doesn’t trust the one who takes care of her now, will know best which treatment to prescribe. What you and your friend can do for her mother is to make sure that she eats well, rests enough and takes a lot of vitamin D. Vitamin D supplementation seems to have a good effect on the treatment of tuberculosis and appears to boost immunity to tuberculosis so it might help her recover too.