Treatment of primary TB infection

The tests that doctors can find preliminary diagnosis of tuberculosis infection:

- X-ray Screening

- Soi talks look TB (in the sputum was young), or take the gastric find TB (in children who are not spit phlegm)

- Tuberculin reaction

- CT chest scan

Except where tuberculosis bacteria found in phlegm or gastric, all tests are suggested. Your doctor may have to rely on many factors: the baby's symptoms, tests, response to previous treatment, source of infection, tuberculosis ... to be able to diagnose the disease.

Preliminary x-rays tuberculosis infection

Why work hard to diagnose primary infection?

- The symptoms are often vague, unclear. Children can only express one or two symptoms of primary TB infection. For example: they can only be expressed only slow growth or weight loss, parents pay little attention to the symptoms should not take a sick child; or they can only be expressed only prolonged wheezing, that children may be misdiagnosed with bronchitis or bronchiolitis, asthma. So putting children to work when screening children exposed to TB patients is very important.

- In addition, the limited testing so rarely found TB in infants, young children are not expectorate phlegm. Sophisticated tests such as chest CT scan is useful in the diagnosis, but just get the money back just as children infected more radiation.

  Treatment of primary TB infection:

Children primary TB infection should be treated with drug-resistant tuberculosis. Child labor is a daily pill, during at least 6 months. TB drugs have many side effects, so they need to be monitored, full checkup under a doctor's appointment during dosing to assess treatment outcomes as well as scrabble address the adverse effects of TB drugs if .