May 26, 2012
Topics A-Z Unanswered Questions Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB)
Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) |
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Dear Ask The Doctor: Dear Doctor, My brother who is living in India is suffering from MDR-TB and has been on the medications for over a year with no improvements. Recently his pancrease and liver failed and was put in the ICU for about 2 weeks. During this period they have stopped giving him INZ because that was damaging his his organs and he is also suffering from neoropathy. He cannot walk at all and is totally bed ridden. How can we treat his neoropathy and at the same time give him his TB medications. Dear Nyema: The treatment of MDR-TB is difficult, challenging and complicated; on the other hand the anti-TB drugs available have various side effects, as for example: cause neuropathies, liver problems, as in the case of your brother. The medications used for relieve and treat neuropathies usually do not interfere with the anti-TB treatment, but I think that the liver and TB problems now are the priority. MRD-TB can be treated and cured but as I mentioned before the treatments are lengthy, complicated and often also expensive. The medications available may cause multiple undesired side effects, but if left untreated MRD-TB spread to other people and from there develop additional drug resistance |
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