Tuberculosis

TREATMENT

With appropriate antibiotic treatment, TB can be cured in most people.

Successful treatment of TB depends on close cooperation between patient and health care provider. Treatment usually combines several different antibiotic drugs that are given for at least 6 months, sometimes for as long as 12 months.

Some people with TB do not get better with treatment because their disease is caused by a TB strain that is resistant to one or more of the standard TB drugs. If that happens, their health care providers will prescribe different drugs and increase the length of treatment.

There is no specific treatment for measles, just providing necessary supportive therapy such as hydration and antipyretics. (Pneumonia may be a complication.) Vitamin A supplementation has been shown to improve the outcome of measles and is recommended.