From what I understand, is that the longer your walk around with latent TB the less likely it will turn into the active form (symptoms present). You are not contagious with latent TB, however it still poses risks to others and to yourself. If it does turn symptomatic then you get become seriously ill (death included), especially because you also have asthma. Your doctor wants to prescribe antibiotics more as a preventative measure, which I think is prudent in your case.
Also, with receiving treatment even if it successfully treated the latent TB it does not mean I will not show positive for latent TB again or have latent TB become active.
I would recommend she get a second opinion from an infectious disease dr who will communicate better to give her a more clear understanding.
I am in the very same situation that you are in.I have a latent TB infection and was also diagnosed with Hep C recently.When I asked my doc about this situation she says she has to research it.I want to get the hep c treatment but i also dont want the tb to activate because of the meds.I have no cirossis,stage 1,grade 1 fibrosis.Now I think Ill maybe put off the hep tx for awhile until I can get more info.I dont want to put myself into a situation that will really make me ill.What to do?
The skin test will catch it in it's latent phase when it's noncommunicable, if you wait until you have definitive symptoms then it's already communicable. Latent infection which 90% of TB cases are is pretty easy to treat, if you wait until it's active you have to take drugs with lots of side effects for six months.
But the test can pick up past exposure to TB and active disease. So the Xray will determine if it is active or latent (past exposure). If he has past exposure you still may want to take the INH part of the treatment or whatever the current preventive treatment is. Because if he becomes immunocompromised he can come down with the disease at some point. So since the CT was negative it probably is negative. But they weren't looking for that.
I am not a nurse or doctor. Just speaking from my own hystery and problems. I was exposed to someone with active TB in 1996. I was working in a hospital where I would get mandatory physicals each year. This included a TB test. One year it came out positive. I was told then and now that it can take 3 months for your TB test (Mantaux Test) to show positive. You may be a carrier which is Latent Infenction TB.
If someone has htlv and it is latent does that mean they are not contagious?
Hi, it means the densities could be latent inactive encapsulated TB infection, scarring from previous active infection of PTB that's healed, another infection resembling PTB, or newly activated PTB. Other clinical/laboratory correlation is needed by your doctor(e.g. history/exposure of PTB, positive sputum culture for Mycobacteria Tuberculosis, positive PPD).
t necessarily mean you have tuberculosis disease, but that you may have been infected, which they consider latent TB infection. The standard treatment of latent TB infection would be six to nine months of isoniazid by itself, if your not symptomatic, and have a clear chest x-ray.
*On a interesting side note, the disease I have, Sarcoidosis, we typically have an anergy to mycobacterium species. Another words a negative PPD doesn't mean we don't carry an infection of M.
And not to mention I test positive for PPD Tb test. So I have latent TB which I have read is really bad to have wih HIV. And that will send me to the grave. At this point I am ready to just make an appt with the HIV Doc and be treated ASAP. I feel I am dying day by day or kill myself. PLEASE HELP>>>Any encouraging thoughts.
s totally unchanged after five months and you live in an endemic region it makes TB infection highly likely, and TB has characteristics that are fairly unique on x-ray. It is true though to be 100% sure and to know if it's latent or active you would need to correlate it with clinical presentation, mantoux test or antibody assay, and sputum smear or culture or pcr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantoux_test
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Hi, TB infection latent or in early active stages in the lungs usually is only one lung and looks like a speckles of little densities. Treatment for latent TB the standard treatment is six to nine months of isoniazid(H) alone. 6-9H
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoniazid
The standard "short" course treatment for active TB is isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol for two months, then isoniazid and rifampicin alone for a further four months.
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