What conditions increase risk for TB?

What conditions increase risk for TB?

The risk factors for acquiring TB include close-contact situations, alcohol and IV drug abuse, and certain diseases (for example, diabetes, cancer, and HIV) and occupations (for example, health-care workers).

Is tuberculosis a serious condition?

It mainly affects the lungs, but it can affect any part of the body, including the tummy (abdomen), glands, bones and nervous system. TB is a potentially serious condition, but it can be cured if it’s treated with the right antibiotics.

What are the two TB related conditions?

As a result, two TB-related conditions exist: latent TB infection and TB disease. TB bacteria can live in the body without making you sick.

Can you get tuberculosis from kissing?

Kissing, hugging, or shaking hands with a person who has TB doesn’t spread the disease. Likewise, sharing bed linens, clothes, or a toilet seat isn’t how the disease spreads either.

What are the main causes of tuberculosis?

Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by a type of bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It’s spread when a person with active TB disease in their lungs coughs or sneezes and someone else inhales the expelled droplets, which contain TB bacteria.

What are the environmental factors of tuberculosis?

For centuries, TB has been linked anecdotally with environmental risk factors that go hand-in-hand with poverty: indoor air pollution, tobacco smoke, malnutrition, overcrowded living conditions, and excessive alcohol use.

Can I marry a girl with TB?

For example, if, due to TB and its lengthy treatment, a woman’s marriage to her cousin does not go ahead, then it is not her last opportunity to marry if she has many other as yet unmarried cousins to marry once she is in good health again.

How does TB cause death?

Fungal infection, especially aspergilloma, is a common secondary infection of late sequelae of pulmonary tuberculosis. We investigated forty-two cases of aspergilloma as late sequelae of pulmonary tuberculosis, and of those 15 patients died. The causes of death were pneumonia and respiratory failure.

What happens if a child is exposed to tuberculosis?

Fortunately, most children exposed to tuberculosis don’t become ill. When the bacteria reach their lungs, the body’s immune system attacks them and prevents further spread.

Who is at high risk for TB in children?

While TB is less common than it once was, some groups of children have a higher risk of developing tuberculosis, including: Children living in a household with an adult who has active tuberculosis or has a high risk of contracting TB.

Is it possible to catch tuberculosis from a stranger?

Although tuberculosis is contagious, it’s not easy to catch. You’re much more likely to get tuberculosis from someone you live with or work with than from a stranger. Most people with active TB who’ve had appropriate drug treatment for at least two weeks are no longer contagious.

What makes tuberculosis such a dangerous killer infection?

Another reason tuberculosis remains a major killer is the increase in drug-resistant strains of the bacterium. Since the first antibiotics were used to fight tuberculosis more than 60 years ago, some TB germs have developed the ability to survive, and that ability gets passed on to their descendants.