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Is Working Night Shift Safe While Having History Of Pulmonary Tuberculosis?
Hi, Is working night shift is not healthy for a person with previous PTB history(way back 2008)? And every year, there s a findings on my chest xray - pleural thickening, this maybe scars. If its okay to work on nightshift, what should be done to make my body healthy. please advise. Thanks, Lanz
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Fri, 20 Feb 2015
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Dear,
Tuberculosis is mainly associated with the immunity of body , if ur immunity goes down u may again get tb . Or ican reactivate.
As far as night shift is concerned yes u can do but if u dont get a sound sleep in day time than overall it will have negative effect on ur immunity.
Pleural thickenings are due to old damage of lungs which is getting healed with scar formation.
U must have high protein regular diet wid low cholesterol diest. Use eggs as much as u can eat.
Thanks
Tuberculosis is mainly associated with the immunity of body , if ur immunity goes down u may again get tb . Or ican reactivate.
As far as night shift is concerned yes u can do but if u dont get a sound sleep in day time than overall it will have negative effect on ur immunity.
Pleural thickenings are due to old damage of lungs which is getting healed with scar formation.
U must have high protein regular diet wid low cholesterol diest. Use eggs as much as u can eat.
Thanks
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