Symptoms/Treatment

When tuberculosis becomes active, 75% of cases involve infection in the lungs which is called (Pulmonary TB). The symptoms include pain in the chest, coughing up blood or sputum, productive cough that last more than three weeks. The affecting symptoms include fever, chills, night sweats, appetite loss, weight loss, pallor, and fatigue. The other 25% of active cases the infection moves from the lungs, causing other kinds of TB. The treatment for TB uses antibiotics to kill the bacteria. Effective TB treatment is difficult due to the unusual structure and the chemical compsotiton. There is two antibiotics that are used isoniazid and rifamicin. TB requires much longer periods of treatment around 6 to 24 months to entirely eleiminate the mycobacteria from the body.Drug-resistnat tuberculosisi is transsmitted in the same way as regular TB.