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Here are a few ways you might do that: Pick a daily activity and take your medicines when you do that activity -- like before or after brushing your teeth, putting in your contact lenses, or ...
Airborne precautions are guidelines to prevent the spread of TB in healthcare settings. If you are at a hospital receiving treatment for TB, your team might instruct you to: Come and go from the ...
The bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes tuberculosis (TB), a contagious, airborne infection that destroys body tissue. Pulmonary TB occurs when M. tuberculosis primarily attacks the lungs ...
The Kane County Health Department is recommending residents get the new COVID-19 vaccine to fight against mutations of the virus as the area enters the cold and flu season. Health Department ...
Treating latent TB infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends choosing one of the following treatment protocols: 3 months of once-weekly isoniazid plus rifapentine ...
TB Skin Testing Results. If you have a raised, hard bump or there's swelling on your arm, you have a positive test. That means TB germs are in your body. But it doesn't always mean you have active ...
Doctors call this "drug-resistant" TB. If you have this form of the disease, you may need to take stronger medications for longer. Treatment for Latent TB. There are two types of TB -- latent and ...
As part of Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, the Kane County Health Department is recommending children living in certain parts of the county have their blood tested for lead levels. Aurora has the ...