http://www.tuberculosis.net Tuberculosis Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:00:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.tuberculosis.net/tb-tuberculosis.html [caption id="attachment_36" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="Managing fear"][/caption] The presence of tuberculosis in some societies involves ritualistic processes to be completed to in the hope of clearing the ailment. The patient may be imbibed into this form of thinking and prefers to undergo the rituals due to fears of medicine. The fear has ... http://www.tuberculosis.net/managing-fear.html [caption id="attachment_32" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="Communication"][/caption] A variety of notions about the management of the disease may be broken if international discussions and ideas are shared and implemented. Research on the management of tuberculosis patients to retain the ailment is necessary. Alongside this, doctors need to understand their personal needs as essential ... http://www.tuberculosis.net/barriers-to-be-broken-with-tuberculosis.html [caption id="attachment_29" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="Life with Tuberculosis"][/caption] Despite medical advancement, the negative feelings surrounding tuberculosis abound. Families are isolated and the necessary support required for ensuring smooth recovery is lacking. Poverty and low education lead people to local doctors who claim to possess magical powers and delay the start of effective ... http://www.tuberculosis.net/life-with-tuberculosis.html [caption id="attachment_26" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="Empowerment"][/caption] The involvement of the tuberculosis patient in the treatment and active discussion regarding choices and possibilities increases the sense of being in personal control of the disease. The doctor patient relationship must change from directive to collaborative for the long term treatment and cure. Doctors must ... http://www.tuberculosis.net/tuberculosis-patient.html [caption id="attachment_23" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="Peripheral support"][/caption] Doctors, nurses, hospital staff and family members are the ones who rally round the patient and undergo the stress of finance, worry and stigma when a diagnosis of tuberculosis is made. There is a need to provide care for the care givers and understand and ... http://www.tuberculosis.net/support.html [caption id="attachment_19" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="Tuberculosis patients"][/caption] The declaration of the presence of tuberculosis leads to a variety of reactions. Disbelief, denial, disgust, anger, fear and depression is a common cycle of feelings in patients. Societal stigma and the possibility of familial rejection may drive the patient to a feeling of despair. ... http://www.tuberculosis.net/patients.html [caption id="attachment_16" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="Treatment"][/caption] The traditional treatment of tuberculosis used to involve long periods of complete bed rest and isolation from society. Hill-side sanatoriums were considered suitable for the recovery of tuberculosis patients. This is no longer the case. Patients are allowed to return to work once the course of ... http://www.tuberculosis.net/treatment.html [caption id="attachment_13" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="Medication"][/caption] Once the diagnosis of tuberculosis is confirmed, the patient must maintain a strict dietary and rest regimen to remain on the path to recovery. This is not easy since the dosage recommended involves consuming eight pills in the course of a day for a period of ... http://www.tuberculosis.net/tuberculosis-medication.html [caption id="attachment_10" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="abdominal pain"][/caption] Mycobacterium tuberculosis appears a in a number of organs, a few of which are explained here. Be aware of the different types of symptoms in order to take necessary precautions in time. In case of the slightest doubt on account of the continuation of symptoms, ... http://www.tuberculosis.net/symptoms-of-tuberculosis.html