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Suggest Treatment For Pulmonary Tuberculosis
I have Diagnose with PTB BILATERAL, Last 2008, and i undergo for medication but i have not finish it i take medicine for only 4months, after my doctor said it clear i stop for medication, my doctor said there are scar on my lungs, My Question is it is posible that my case is being active because sometimes i feel a back ache on the left upper specially when it cold thank u
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Mon, 25 Jul 2016
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youare having recurrence. better to follow dot treatment in which you have to take 4antituber cular regime in the presence of doctor or nurse and come back and take second pack.this can be continued for eight months
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