TB Testing??????

Question

What do they do to test 4 TB? Is it painful? Help Me!!!

Answer 1

It's not painful at all! All they do is slip a small needle under the top layer of your skin, inject a liquid to form a little ball underneath that layer, and they're finished. They'll have you come back in a day or so, so that they can check the spot for any type of reaction signalling that you have TB, and you'll be finished. The needle itself really doesn't hurt at all because it's not going into a muscle or anything, just going into one layer of skin, and they put it in horizontally so they aren't just jabbing you either. Good Luck, don't worry, you won't even know it's happening, I definately didn't.

Answer 2

TB testing is done in either of 2 ways. The first method is: a cap taken of a tiny device with 4 tiny needles (that doesn't hurt at all), is poked onto the skin on the inside of the forearm. The second method, a needle is inserted under the skin, like getting a shot.
The test is really important for anyone working with the public, especially since there is a new incurable type of TB that has recently surfaced.
After 2 days of not letting the area get wet or rubbing it, return to the physician or clinic, to have the area looked at. If there is no mark or a tiny mark, means no exposure to TB.
If the area is significantly raised, means you have been exposed or you have it.
Our whole family went through testing about a year ago, after a grandchild showed positive to exposure. He is really young and acquired it from his relative, who had been in prison. A lot of the prison populations have TB/or are carriers. The child was prescribed antibiotics and Vitamin B for about 9 months. A lot of people in the medical professions have a positive result(exposure) but are not active. TB is spread by coughing and sneezing. Our grandchild had a fever too. TB can lie dormant for several years without detection. Chest x-rays are beneficial too.

Answer 3

Not painful at all. it is adminstered with a very tiny sub cutaneous needle. The medicine is placed just under the skin on the underside of your forearm. You will know in days if you have had an exposure and then you can discuss treatment options

Answer 4

I have to take one every year because I work for a government agency, what the nurses do is stick the needle in just under the skin and form a little bubble in the skin (you can see it) and 2 days later they check it and see if there is redness. advise do not scrub the site or scratch it

Answer 5

generic results of Purified protein by-product dermis attempt: A adverse reaction (no induration) or a point of tricky swelling that falls under the cutoff for each danger team could advise that a individual has no longer been contaminated with the bacteria that reason TB. There are diverse cutoffs for young little ones, those with HIV, and different danger communities. regrettably, it is not a suited attempt, and as much as twenty% of folk contaminated with tuberculosis won't have a reaction on the PPD dermis attempt. to boot, specific circumstances that impression the immune device (maximum cancers, cutting-edge chemotherapy, previous due-point AIDS) could reason a fake-adverse attempt result. the main debatable factor of BCG is the variable efficacy cutting-edge in diverse medical trials that looks to remember on geography. medical trials carried out interior the united kingdom have consistently shown a shielding results of 60 to eighty%, yet trials carried out someplace else have shown no shielding result, and efficacy looks to fall the nearer one receives to the equator Please see the information superhighway web site for extra info on Mantoux attempt.

Answer 6

It's a very simple test involving tiny needle prick(s) on your arm. Hurts no worse than a bee sting. The spot may itch a little afterwards for awhile, but it's no big deal.

Answer 7

so u dont get sick if u work in a health setting. I have had 2 done. It dont hurt. IF ur afraid just dont look at it when they do it