Can tuberculosis be cured ?

Answer 1

yes, reegular treatment.

Answer 2

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by a Bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is spread through the air by a person suffering from TB. A single patient can infect 10 or more people in a year.

India has a long and distinguished tradition of research in TB. Studies from the Tuberculosis Research Centre in Chennai and the National Tuberculosis Institute in Bangalore provided key knowledge to improve treatment of TB patients all around the world.

Modern anti-TB treatment can cure virtually all patients. It is, however, very important that treatment be taken for the prescribed duration, which in every case is a minimum of 6 months. Because treatment is of such a long duration and patients feel better after just 1-2 months, and because many TB patients face other problems such as poverty and unemployment, treatment is often interrupted.

Therefore, just providing anti-TB medication is not sufficient to ensure that patients are cured. Today, for the first time since the discovery of the first anti-TB medicines in 1944, there is hope of stopping TB. This breakthrough is a strategy known as DOTS, an acronym for Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization has declared that, "The DOTS strategy represents the most important public health breakthrough of the decade, in terms of lives which will be saved."

Answer 3

Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculie.It is not a curable disease. It spreads through the saliva , sneeze of the infected patient.The bacteria attacks on the WBC and reduces our body resistance. It invades the lungs and starts infrcting it too. The person with TB also has blood vomitings. There are antibiotics only to reduced the infection but not eradicating the bacteria from the body.Until and unless the person is healthy enough he may not be able to get the symptoms of it. Once his body resistance decreases the organism starts invading the body .There are medicines only for temporary cure.

Answer 4

TB can be cured, using modern treatment. TB treatment involves using three or four special TB-antibiotics. They are tablets and capsules, which are normally given before and after breakfast. The four main medicines that kill TB germs are: rifampicin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide and ethambutol.

Most other infections in the body only require a week or two of antibiotic treatment for cure. Unfortunately, TB medications have to be taken for many months to cure this disease. Every dose of medicine must be taken. The treatment usually has to go on for a minimum of 6 months, and may need to continue for longer.

Answer 5

Tuberculosis can be cured, even among HIV-infected persons. Treatment with DOTS has been shown to prolong the life of HIV-infected persons by at least two years. HIV-infected TB patients who received treatment with the same drugs but not in a programme of DOTS had a three-fold increased risk of death during treatment.

Answer 6

With regular treatment, under proper supervision, TBcan be cured in most of the patients.

But the treatment is long, drugs frequently have unpleasurable effects and treatment is still costly for the poor.

Answer 7

Yes, it can. My aunt had tb a couple years back and she's fine now. She just had to spit coughed-up phlegm into a container for (I think) a year and then mail it to the lab.

Answer 8

"A Global Solution to TB -- Is It Possible?"
- The Conquest to Come
http://www.watchtower.org/e/19971222/article_03.htm

Answer 9

Yes, it can be cured.

Answer 10

yes. TB is curable.