Drug prevention of tuberculosis in children several principles

Although the current TB disease is not fatal, but once the children had tuberculosis, the health risk is great. TB in children often have long-term fever, cough, poor appetite, weight loss, night sweats, fatigue, such as performance, children with severe disease can be serious poisoning symptoms. Tuberculous meningitis without early treatment, can have a limb paralysis, mental and behavioral abnormalities, such as lower smart aftermath. Hence the importance of prevention work. To sum up, TB prevention efforts should take comprehensive measures:

(1) BCG vaccination on time. Practice has proved that the BCG vaccination in children, TB prevalence and death rates greatly reduced, even a small number of people vaccinated, because of contact with tuberculosis patients are infected with tuberculosis, but the illness reduced significantly.

(2) regular medical examination. If patients should be corresponding management and treatment. TB on sputum-positive bacteria are waiting to be treated in isolation.

(3) to strictly sterilized milk consumption.

(4) to strengthen medical training, supply of food rich in nutrition.

In addition to the above preventive measures, which have started the clinical drug prevention. Drug targets for the prevention of tuberculosis:

1, has yet to BCG vaccination, but the tuberculin test (OT test) positive infants, the body that has been with tuberculosis.

2, OT recently from negative to positive tests in children. Infant BCG vaccination after two months, the body has produced resistant tuberculosis, OT test was the occasion of the reaction. If negative, that BCG vaccination did not succeed, we must re-vaccination. OT test positive children, the body's resistance over time will gradually weaken, every three to six years required to do a test OT, such as negative, to multiple cropping BCG. If children OT test negative, without a vaccination card on the seedlings to negative, that infected with the TB bacilli.

3, OT strong positive test in children.

4, lung X-ray examination normal, but there are early symptoms of TB poisoning, OT test positive.

5, OT test positive or whooping cough in children when Huanma Zhen.

6, open contact with pulmonary guitar parents or other family members of children. A set of commonly used on the prevention of drug isoniazid is, for each daily dose of 10 mg kg weight, once served, from the course of several months to six months. In addition to medication, children need regular chest X-ray examination.