what precautions required for family members of a T B patient?

Answer 1

Previously chemoprophylaxis with INH, isolation of patient were done. Nowdays we don't isolate the patient and it is not necessary to take chemoprophylaxis also if your one member has got TB.

The best way is to treat the patient with short term chemoprypholaxis. If we give even single dose of Rifampicin the communicability of TB will reduce drastically upto 60%.

So have a standard treatment is enough.

Another thing we can't avoid acquisition of TB, most of us are infectd with TB, and shows diseases in certain conditions like low immunity, AIDS and other condition when body fight system is poor.

Keep you member in your home, give him/her atandard antiTB drugs, say him to use towel during coughing or sneezing, proper disposal of sputum and give him fresh air, good nutrition.

However if the member is your intimate like partner and you can't avoid and he/she is in active stage then only you can take INH chemoprophylaxis, however is is is taken, it should be taken for long duration.

Answer 2

Tb Patient Precautions

Answer 3

If the patient has TB of the lungs, there are bacteria in sputum. He should not spit out the sputum. Keep the house well ventilated. Children should have BCG vaccine and children under 4 years age should have preventive anti -TB drugs. A patient becomes sputum negative for TB bacilli about 2 to 4 weeks after starting treatment, so don't worry too much. If he takes treatment irregularly or stops treatment before the prescribed time, he could develop multi- drug resistant TB, and pass it to others.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

the general cautions, the bacteria could be at sputum (mostly), and other corporal fluids (it depends what kind of TB could be, meaning the location), so be careful with those, but it can not be infective by a hug or the hands salute, and the members need to go to the medical doctor treating the patient because they could require a cycle of antibiotics... go there

Answer 6

Avoid exposure to sputum of the TV patient. The tubercle bacilli could be acquired through the sputum and air droplets. He should be advised to cover his mouth when he coughs. Children should be immunised.

Answer 7

Get scanned and get BCG vaccine.