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Will I Be Ok If I Stop My Latent TB Meds A Few Weeks Early?
Question: Will i be ok if i stop my Latent TB meds a few weeks early. 39 year old healthy male. was forced to start treatment due to job. original test was indeterminate
Brief Answer:
It is better to complete full course.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for the query.
It is always better to complete the full course of TB medicines. Incomplete treatment may results in antibiotic resistance and recurrence of disease.
Can you specify your treatment regime and drugs you are taking in the follow up query?
Thanks
It is better to complete full course.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for the query.
It is always better to complete the full course of TB medicines. Incomplete treatment may results in antibiotic resistance and recurrence of disease.
Can you specify your treatment regime and drugs you are taking in the follow up query?
Thanks
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Prasad
600mg rifampin monotherapy daily for 120 days. clear chest xray but indeterminate quantiferon gold. government job so treated as latent TB. ive completed 90 of 120 days. Never had TB symptom in my life.
i guess what im most concerned with is if i stop now, it wont cause me to catch TB from stopping will it? The medicine didnt grow it inside me now?
i apologize for asking you these but like i said my doctors do not seem to want to answer my questions and dont have much experience dealing with Latent TB and are bound by government protocol.
Brief Answer:
It is better to continue the full course.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Many of the tuberculosis patient never have symptoms, but it is bette to complete treatment to prevent unwanted complications and to avoid transmission.
It is better to complete the full course otherwise you may develop drug resistance.
Thanks
It is better to continue the full course.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Many of the tuberculosis patient never have symptoms, but it is bette to complete treatment to prevent unwanted complications and to avoid transmission.
It is better to complete the full course otherwise you may develop drug resistance.
Thanks
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Kampana
Sir, with all due respect that did not answer my question at all. i am aware that its best to finish the treatment. I needed to know if there were great short term risks that would be brought on by stopping the antibiotic. i dont think you want to answer that however. Thank you for your time.
Brief Answer:
Given
Detailed Answer:
If you have inactive(latent)TB infection, there are TB bacteria in your body, but you do not have any symptoms.
It’s very important to take your TB medicine exactly as prescribed.
If you skip before the full course, most cases nothing will happen, but there are possibilities that Your TB infection could turn into active TB disease. With active TB, you will have symptoms and you can pass TB on to your contacts, more over it may turn to drug resistant TB which can be dangerous and fatal.
Thanks
Given
Detailed Answer:
If you have inactive(latent)TB infection, there are TB bacteria in your body, but you do not have any symptoms.
It’s very important to take your TB medicine exactly as prescribed.
If you skip before the full course, most cases nothing will happen, but there are possibilities that Your TB infection could turn into active TB disease. With active TB, you will have symptoms and you can pass TB on to your contacts, more over it may turn to drug resistant TB which can be dangerous and fatal.
Thanks
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Raju A.T
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