Health and Medical Care Tips
Common side effects: Hepatitis, peripheral neuropathy
Uncommon side effects: Cutaneous reactions, arthralgia, drug induced lupus, optic neuritis, convulsions, mental symptoms aplastic anaemia, haemolytic anaemia agranulocytosis, gynaecomastia.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis can survive or a long time in darkness, away from sunlight.Those persons who stay indoors for prolonged periods with a patient of pulmonary TB are most likely to get infected.
A patient of tuberculosis is likely to have infected some of his own family members prior to reporting to you.
Of those infected, some may develop the disease. [Read more...]
Routine blood and urine examinations in pulmonary tuberculosis are as non-specific as those of physical examination. The patient may be found to be anaemic with a normal or raised WBC count.
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
ESR is o a non-specific investigation which may become rapid in a large variety of clinical conditions ranging from anaemia to any chronic infectious, inflammatory or malignant disease. [Read more...]