What treatments are available to treat TB?

Answer 1

Treament is with four different antibiotics.
Isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide and ethambutol for 3 months, then isoniazid and rifampicin alone for another 3 months.

Answer 2

Today there are two types of TB infection,and TB desease
The first treated with antibiotics and close watch,
The other treated with anitbiotics,which can also cause hepitis,so that is very closely watched,other meds too.
Find out which one is there and go for the treatments,I understand they are both curable,but cannot say for sure.
good luck

Answer 3

Treatment for TB uses antibiotics to kill the bacteria. The two antibiotics most commonly used are rifampicin and isoniazid. However, these treatments are more difficult than the short courses of antibiotics used to cure most bacterial infections as long periods of treatment (around 6 to 12 months) are needed to entirely eliminate mycobacteria from the body. Latent TB treatment usually uses a single antibiotic, while active TB disease is best treated with combinations of several antibiotics, to reduce the risk of the bacteria developing antibiotic resistance. People with these latent infections are treated to prevent them from progressing to active TB disease later in life. However, treatment using Rifampin and Pyrazinamide is not risk-free. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notified healthcare professionals of revised recommendations against the use of rifampin plus pyrazinamide for treatment of latent tuberculosis infection, due to high rates of hospitalization and death from liver injury associated with the combined use of these drugs.

Drug resistant tuberculosis is transmitted in the same way as regular TB. Primary resistance occurs in persons who are infected with a resistant strain of TB. A patient with fully-susceptible TB develops secondary resistance (acquired resistance) during TB therapy because of inadequate treatment, not taking the prescribed regimen appropriately, or using low quality medication. Drug-resistant TB is a public health issue in many developing countries, as treatment is longer and requires more expensive drugs. Multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) is defined as resistance to the two most effective first line TB drugs: rifampicin and isoniazid. Extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) is also resistant to three or more of the six classes of second-line drugs.

Answer 4

Here you go - everything you wanted to know about TB.These are the section headings. Click on the link below to read about each of these sections.

Introduction
Signs and symptoms
Causes
Risk factors
When to seek medical advice
Screening and diagnosis
Complications
Treatment
Prevention
Coping skills

Answer 5

First the person should have an x-ray and sputum test for TB. If positive there is a long term therapy and short term therapy.Drugs for TB are INH,PZA,ethambutol,and rifampicin.

Answer 6

generally, treatments are few (2-3)antibiotics in a period of few months(i think 4 and 6)
antibiotics are for example :izoniazid,rifampicin,streptomycin