How to Prevent Tuberculosis and its Spread

This article highlights some basic tips and ideas on how to prevent tuberculosis, or TB, and its spread.

As also indicated in the other related tuberculosis articles, tuberculosis is a contagious disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis and these bacteria are transmitted through air.

These disease-causing bacteria are discharged into the atmosphere or air in the form of minute droplets when patients infected with tuberculosis cough, speak, or sneeze. These droplets have a tendency to evaporate quickly but the bacteria continue to be airborne for a very long time.

People exposed to this air run the risk of getting infected by the disease. Having said the above, one must note that tuberculosis bacteria die when exposed to sunlight and ultraviolet light.

Before going into detail on how to prevent tuberculosis, let us discuss the two main forms of tuberculosis - latent tuberculosis and active tuberculosis.

Latent Tuberculosis

Latent tuberculosis is not contagious mainly because it has not yet turned into full blown infection. However, if a person’s immunity is weak, latent tuberculosis could turn into active tuberculosis, which is highly contagious. This is common among patients suffering from AIDS mainly because of their immune system is not strong enough to fight infections and their resistance is very low.

Conventional Medicine’s take on How to Prevent Tuberculosis

For people who test positive for tuberculosis, but are not showing any specific signs and symptoms of active TB, conventional medicine advises the use of certain medications to prevent getting infected by active tuberculosis. The treatment given in such cases is referred to as preventive treatment or therapy.

Preventive treatment involves taking medication like isoniazid or INH. This drug has the ability to destroy the disease-causing bacteria that are lying dormant in people with latent tuberculosis. The duration of preventive therapy is for a period of six months and in high-risk patients which primarily include HIV/AIDS patients this treatment should be continued for a longer duration.

Do note that, in natural health and healing, the use of chemical drugs is not advocated – there are always safe and natural solutions which are just as effective, if not more effective.

Active Tuberculosis

Active tuberculosis is the stage during which tuberculosis is highly contagious and patients with active tuberculosis can spread the disease to other people who are in his or her vicinity. It is therefore important to isolate patients suffering from active tuberculosis once they have been diagnosed with the disease.

Conventional Medicine

In children, especially below the age of 1, the Bacillus Camille Guerin (BCG) vaccine has been used for preventing certain types of tuberculosis. In adults, however, no vaccine is found to completely effective. Hence, extra caution needs to be exercised while treating patients with tuberculosis.

Also, an important point to note is that the use of vaccines has been linked to many conditions in children, including autism. And, as mentioned earlier, natural health and healing does not advocate the use of chemical drugs. What is of foremost importance, is to keep the body and its immune system clean, healthy and strong.

Some Tips on How to Prevent Tuberculosis

Here are some effective ways of how to prevent tuberculosis and preventing the spread of the disease.

Above all, as mentioned already a few times, it is best to concentrate on building immunity, staying healthy, eating well, and exercising regularly to prevent getting infected by tuberculosis or any other disease condition. This is, by far, the best way toward how to prevent tuberculosis.

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