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Tuberculosis in lungs

2017-03-16 15:03:45
My father of age 58 is going through ATT medication from past 20 days with streptomycin;INH and RIBOFLAVIN and 1 more medicine. He still have fever of 102 (from last 1.5 months ) degree and he is   vomiting 2 to 3 times in a day from past 10 days.we r unable to understand should we move him other hospital or what else v can do ?please suggest. His sputum was negative and tb was detected in bronchoscopy. Please reply.
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Fever will get reduced slowly on tb treatment, give pan d T in empty stomach in the morning for two weeks vomiting will stop. Does this is second time treatment???
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get treated in one place oly.

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