-------> my school has had a student with pulminary tuberculosis... They have been at the school and now they are just now making him leave and send out notification papers to parents.
NEW QUESTIONS----
-Does our school need to be Cleaned, dissinffected or something?
-What is someone has caught this "disease"? they say they have notified and tested any teachers or students who may have been around or caught it, BUT my Q is how do they know who this kid sat by at lunch, or stood behind in line... or even was in the bathroom, or ANYTHING didnt get it????
-what exactly needs to be done?
PLEASE ANSWER!♥ THANK YOU!!!
2007-03-15 16:11:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Respiratory Diseases
there test can be negetive for a while before it becomes negetive it like aids I don't know what needs to be done. I knew one person and they give medication that all.
I enclosed for you about tb hope it helps.
2007-03-15 16:19:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How old was the child? how long had he been on treatment? Did he have a cough? Childhood TB is primary tuberculosis. It affects the lung parenchyma and the lymph vessels and lymph nodes. It cannot be transmitted to others. Older children can get open or adult type TB, which can be transmitted to others when the person coughs. TB is a less infectious disease and needs prolonged contact to develop and not just casual contact. If a person has been on treatment for about two weeks, he ceases to be infectious to others. The school does not need to be disinfected or cleaned, but if the kid was infectious, contacts who have caught the infection would have a positive Mantoux Test after about 6 weeks. The whole school should have MT after 6 weeks. Those with a positive MT should be X rayed and reated as required.
2007-03-16 06:24:43 · answer #2 · answered by yakkydoc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It gets in the air when people cough, so it would be hard to clean the air. Not that cleaning surfaces would be bad, but you have probably already been exposed, if you were going to be. Sometimes people in good health can be exposed to it and their own immune systems can trap it in a nodule called a granuloma or tubercule. It is like putting it in jail. It doesn't get killed off without medication, but at that point it would be non-contagious. You could only get it if you are not given medication and your immune system gets low, then you could give it to yourself and it could "get out of jail" and be active TB.
The thing is when you are out in public..at the store...at the doctors office...at the library ...you don't know when someone is coughing if they have TB or not. So it doesn't really help to get too spazzed out over someone that you know has it.
Guess I am saying that because we had a neighbor with TB when I was younger and we were exposed to it and just trapped it with our immune systems...they gave the younger of us kids TB meds, the older ones they didn't. Now they do differently. They give meds to all in a family that tests positive. If it is in "jail" it can break out and get into other parts of the body besides the lungs....
2007-03-15 17:23:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
anyone who was in contact should have a TB test from the department of health. They should follow up on that with the staff and students.
2007-03-15 16:31:18 · answer #4 · answered by yudavilla 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-18 12:14:34 · answer #5 · answered by arleta 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't know, and they won't know for awhile. TB can be dormant for quite some time. Even if someone is has been infected their test can come up negative at first.
2007-03-15 16:15:27 · answer #6 · answered by Mia1385 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋