Infectious Diseases - 5 Answers
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1 :
There isn't a tuberculosis trait. It's an infection. People who are around people who have tuberculosis can pass it on.
2 :
Likely. Are the people in the hospital?
3 :
some people may be more susceptible to certain infections, if both of you then your child may be as well; that is different than being infected... in which case there is obvious immediate risk to the child of course!
4 :
This is not a genetic disease that is automatically passed on. This is a cold like virus, where the parents have an active case... it's not always active, the body seals it off and it becomes inactive...can't transmit. They may get it if they have an active case and sneeze in their face. Please everybody with TB sneeze in a kleenex, and keep hands washed...for the world's sake. Thanks.
5 :
Tuberculosis (TB) is primarily an illness of the respiratory system, and is spread by coughing and sneezing. Each year about 1.6 million people die from this curable disease. A child usually gets TB infection from being exposed to a sputum-positive adult. Young children below ten years of age are at risk of becoming infected with TB bacilli. They are also at high risk of developing active tuberculosis because the immune system of young children is less developed. The chance of developing TB disease is greatest shortly after infection. When children present with active tuberculosis disease their family members and other close contacts should be investigated for TB to find the source of the disease and treat them as necessary. The diagnosis of tuberculosis in children can be difficult because children under the age of 10 years usually cannot cough up enough sputum to be sent for laboratory investigations to confirm the infection of tuberculosis. The diagnosis is thus largely based on the clinical features of cough, weight loss, with a history of close contact with an infectious adult TB patient. With increasing coverage of BCG vaccination, the tuberculin skin test is no longer considered a confirmatory test. Chest X-rays of children are difficult to interpret as the typical shadow is rarely seen. Suspect TB in a child * Who is ill, with a history of contact with a suspect or confirmed case of pulmonary TB; * Who does not return to normal health after measles or whooping cough; * With loss of weight, cough, fever who does not respond to antibiotic therapy for acute respiratory disease; * With abdominal swelling, hard painless mass and free fluid; * With painless firm or soft swelling in a group of superficial lymph nodes; * With signs suggesting meningitis or disease in the central nervous system
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