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Use of corticosteroid in milliary tb

My mother was diagnosed with milliary tb with starting att doctor prescribed corticosteroid for 3 weeks .No other organ symptoms complaint was there she was malnourished with minimal pedal edema ,her BP was 80/58 with loss of appetite shortness of breath, night sweats fever .on starting att fever resolved in 3-4 days and her appetite improved with no cough .but due to not giving dose acc to weight band she had 2 time dili on modified att including streptomycin levoflox ethambutol was given during dili .now on getting her x ray done after one month of treatment her tb in x ray is showing increased can it be due to corticosteroid or drug resistance

Tb sputum test

Can geneexpert be negative after 41 days of tb treatment in milliary tb or it is false negative bcz the sample which I have given has very low amt of  yellow sputum

I have tumour on my neck near ear

I have tumour on my neck back side near ear I previously had TB tumour on my neck Took medicine and cured But this time tumour is very small Is it could be because of the fridge water I drank lots of fridge water suddenly once

Drug resistance tb

My mother was given att after one 3 days her fever resolved but due to liver injury 2 times her drug was changed 2 times to S/L/E regimen on second time changing to S/L/E she stepped having fever again with cough but appetite was good it has been 40 days since she started her treatment is this a sign of drug resistance tb

Chronic dry cough

Hello doctor, my husband is having dry cough since last one year, we have showed to many doctors they gave antibiotics and it helped for some time, after some days again he started coughing, last week a doctor said it's because of allergy and gave mlife tablet 1-0-1, now my husband is feeling much better than earlier, I have attached his CBC report. Please help

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