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Suggest Treatment For Tuberculosis Of The Glands

my sister has been diagnosed with gland TB and is under treatment for about two months but there is no improvement. lately the swelling developed on her back contained some pus which was removed surgically. still she suffers from intense pain. can you kindly advice on further treatments, pleease.

Mon, 23 Feb 2015
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Hello dear,

Thank you for your contact to health care magic.

I read and understand your concern.

I am Dr Arun Tank answering your concern.

If the TB treatment won't respond to you with in a two month period than it must be drug resistant TB.

I advice you should take the GeneXpert test done. This test will give you a result within few hours and let us know the possible resistant amongst the bacteria.

If the resistant detected second line of therapy should be adopted and treatment becomes easy and responsive to the therapy.

Please take good care of wound created because of surgical exploration of the pus. Do good dressing and Cleaning with dettol, betadine and avoid exposure of wound to other members of the family.

Please do not discontinue the treatment in between. Completing the treatment is necessary. Otherwise resistant develops in the bacteria making treatment more difficult.

I will be happy to answer your further concern on bit.ly/DrArun.

Thank you,
Dr Arun Tank
Infectious diseases specialist,
HCM.
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Suggest Treatment For Tuberculosis Of The Glands

Hello dear, Thank you for your contact to health care magic. I read and understand your concern. I am Dr Arun Tank answering your concern. If the TB treatment won t respond to you with in a two month period than it must be drug resistant TB. I advice you should take the GeneXpert test done. This test will give you a result within few hours and let us know the possible resistant amongst the bacteria. If the resistant detected second line of therapy should be adopted and treatment becomes easy and responsive to the therapy. Please take good care of wound created because of surgical exploration of the pus. Do good dressing and Cleaning with dettol, betadine and avoid exposure of wound to other members of the family. Please do not discontinue the treatment in between. Completing the treatment is necessary. Otherwise resistant develops in the bacteria making treatment more difficult. I will be happy to answer your further concern on bit.ly/DrArun. Thank you, Dr Arun Tank Infectious diseases specialist, HCM.