2006-10-07 01:53:03 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Respiratory Diseases
No
Asthma- airway narrowing
TB- Bacteria
Nothing to do with each other
2006-10-07 01:54:06 · answer #1 · answered by toietmoi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please excuse my spelling!
If people with TB could just use an inhauler it would be lovely. However, my mother-in-law, father-in-law, 3 sister-in laws, and brother-in-law all have or had TB. My daughter and Husband have Asthma. You can't even compair the two. My father died from TB, at the time mis-diagnosed but by that time most of his children, grand-children and wife contracted it from him. Asthma is not contagious. Where as TB, when active, can be spread through the air. My children, myself and my husband were the lucky ones. I was pretty paranoid and refused to allow any of my family in the room with him without a mask on. My in-laws were pretty angry with me at the time. But, I can tell you if I had to do it all over again, I would have made everyone wear a mask.
Now a days, they have some great treatments for both deseases, but as far as I'm concerned, give me Asthma any day! If you know someone with TB, you really need to go on-line to TB.COM and read up. There are still people out there with this horrible thing and if you are near them when they are active. YOU WILL GET IT! Horrible cough, bloody spit (usually peices of lung coming up) .
Now, did this answer your question?
2006-10-07 02:20:37 · answer #2 · answered by wonderingmom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People with asthma have symptoms when the airways are narrowed (bronchospasm), swollen (inflamed), or filled with mucus. Common symptoms of asthma include:
Coughing, especially at night
Wheezing
Shortness of breath
Chest tightness, pain, or pressure
TB is bacterial infection
Common symptoms may include:
A cough with thick, cloudy, and sometimes bloody mucus (sputum) from the lungs for more than 2 weeks.
A rapid heartbeat.
A swollen neck (when lymph nodes in the neck are infected).
2006-10-07 02:05:52 · answer #3 · answered by moni 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, asthma is caused by narrowing of airways which can be triggered by allergies and other things.
TB is an infection, they have absolutely nothing in common apart form the fact they can both affect the lungs and you ability to breathe properly.
TB is contagious and can be spread to other people via respiratory droplets, asthma isn't.
2006-10-08 06:41:47 · answer #4 · answered by LOULOU37 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Asthma is an allergic condition and only bacterial in asthmatic bronchitis, but TB does not enter the picture at all.
2006-10-07 02:01:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Asthma is an inflammatory disorder of the airways, characterized by periodic attacks of wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing.
Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). The lungs are primarily involved, but the infection can spread to other organs.
2006-10-07 03:53:49 · answer #6 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not. Asthma is a restrictive lung disease totally unrelated to TB.
2006-10-08 15:37:57 · answer #7 · answered by CJBig 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. But TB can cause or exacerbate asthma, or asthma-like symptoms.
2006-10-07 06:23:03 · answer #8 · answered by Tigger 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no relation...Tb is a bacterial infection, asthma a chronic reactrive condition.
2006-10-07 01:54:29 · answer #9 · answered by David B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO ASTHMA HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TB
2006-10-07 01:55:04 · answer #10 · answered by gerry22122 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋