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[Green Lantern]

Oatmeal

Green leafy vegetables

Olive Oil

Vegetable oil

Exercise

Lots of fluids/juice

[Green Lantern]

Metamucil

[st]

well they have already underlined the treatment.

 

and the mode of transmission...

 

addition..

 

if you have kissed the girl that you were having sex with, chances taht she will be infected too.. since mode of transmission is airborne or saliva....

TUBERCULOSIS is highly infectious diseases caused by TB Bacilli (MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS). It is primarily a respiratory disease common among malnourished individuals living in crowded areas.

 

MODE OF TRANSMISSION

Airborne droplet method throughing , sneezing, or singing./ inhalation of droplet nuclei

 

The most hazardous period of development of clinical disease is the first 6-12 months after. The risk for developing disease is:

1. highest in children under 3 yrs old.

2. lower in later childhood

3. high again among adolescents, young adults, and the very old.

Reactivation of long latent infections account for a large portion of cases of clinical disease in older person.

For those infected, susceptibility to disease is markedly increased in those with HIV infection and other forms of immunosuppression and also increased among underweight and undernourished persons with silicosis, diabetes or gastrectomies and among substance abusers.

 

PREVENTION

· BCG Vaccination OF NEWBORN BABY, INFANTS, AND GRADE I/school entrants.

· Educate the public in mode spread and methods of control of the early diagnosis.

· Improve social conditions, which increases the risk of becoming infected such as overcrowding.

 

CLINICAL SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS (ONE SUSPECT WITH P.T.B.)

rasie the possibility of P.T.B.

· Chronic cough

· Significant weight loss

· Sweats and chills

· Fatigue

· Malaise

· Fever are found in over half of poatients suffering from PTB.

NOTE: In contrast to common perception,fever is intermittent in PTB and doesn’t commonl occur in the afternoon.

HEMOPTYSIS is more associated with non-TB respiratory disease than PTB.

 

LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS

Most important test to request for a person with clinical signs and symptoms suggestive of PTB

· SPUTUM EXAMINATION FOR A.F.P. / DIRECT MICROSCOPY

 

 

TEST to diagnose TB:

· AFP Microscopy (sure if you have PTB)

· Mycobacterial culture ( 100%)

· Chest X-ray ( Doubt)

· Purified Protein Delipathy skin testing ( doubt)

· Drug susceptibility

Edited July 15, 2006 by Maribel-R18

[Green Lantern]

Maribel R-18

 

Well written, I think that about covers it.

 

One point about the laboratory diagnosis:

 

Should be Sputum exam for AFB - Acid Fast Bacilli

[Green Lantern]

Try a follow up consult with your OB or if you are not too confident with that, you can always go for a 2nd opinion.

[Green Lantern]

too late for vaccination

[brentley]

Bro,

Has anyone know how to treat this problem? I think i'm acidic.

[Kouji Kabuto]

Better have a gastroenterologist look at that. I recommend Dr. Peter Sy sa PGH, Metro and Cardinal. Pag na clear yan at walang problema sa ulcer you can try Chinese medicine - not the over the counter kind, but a real doctor.

[brentley]

Better have a gastroenterologist look at that. I recommend Dr. Peter Sy sa PGH, Metro and Cardinal. Pag na clear yan at walang problema sa ulcer you can try Chinese medicine - not the over the counter kind, but a real doctor.

Kouji,

Do you know the schedule of Dr. Sy at PGH?

[Green Lantern]

The levels of acid secretion in the stomach are highest during the late night or early morning.

Try taking 150 mg of Ranitidine at bedtime for two weeks and if you smoke try to quit, also decrease your oily food intake, coffee and dark soda.

[brentley]

The levels of acid secretion in the stomach are highest during the late night or early morning.

Try taking 150 mg of Ranitidine at bedtime for two weeks and if you smoke try to quit, also decrease your oily food intake, coffee and dark soda.

How about drinking a glass of milk before i sleep? Will it work?

[Green Lantern]

NO, please stay away from the milk!

 

A very common misconception is that milk will neutralize the acid in the stomach.

This is one of the things you should avoid.

Milk becomes rancid in the stomach and will make things worse.

If anything, you can drink some soda water, the carbonation (H2CO3) will help neutralize the acid.

 

If you smoke, now would be a good time to quit.

Stay away from the coffee, tea, and dark colored softdrinks as well.

[brentley]

NO, please stay away from the milk!

 

A very common misconception is that milk will neutralize the acid in the stomach.

This is one of the things you should avoid.

Milk becomes rancid in the stomach and will make things worse.

If anything, you can drink some soda water, the carbonation (H2CO3) will help neutralize the acid.

 

If you smoke, now would be a good time to quit.

Stay away from the coffee, tea, and dark colored softdrinks as well.

Green Lantern,

I don't smoke. What drinks do you recomend that have carbonation(H2CO3)?I once have a doctor in binondo take my pulse at the hands and he told me that my stomach is weak. Is this the same as the acidity in my stomach? Can this be cure?

[_RyAn`AgOnCiLLo_]

yan ang problem ko acidick kc ko...the stomach area, kaya i dont usually drink cola's

[Green Lantern]

Schweppes Soda water.

Royal soda water.

 

But if I were you, I would go straight for the Ranitidine 150mg HS (at bedtime)