My father (68) lived at home with my sister and her family and I are still in college. I am a student, is working on college thesis so that the obligation no longer exists. Therefore, recently assigned to escort my father went to the hospital.
It turned out that the task is quite time consuming. I had to take him to the heart clinic, diabetes, and arthritis because my father suffered from such diseases. Each visit spent half the day.
I began to realize the disease is much older. Since I am also a father to fetch medicine, I also understand a lot of elderly people require medication.
Because cataract vision impaired father, so I also have to help provide medicine Dad at breakfast, lunch, and at night. I imagine how the fate of the elderly who do not have children, surely they have trouble taking the drug because of many kinds and different life rules.
There are drugs are eaten before meals and after dinner there. All can run well because of our cooperation within the family.
A month ago my father used to walk in the morning to complain shortness of breath. I think the heart of Father recurrence. It turned out that after consultation with cardiologists, cardiac function, he good. He even consulted a doctor lung specialist.
I was surprised because my father was infected with tuberculosis. Indeed dad cough, but cough is not great. I understand the symptoms of TB are fever and persistent cough. My father was a fever. What are the symptoms of tuberculosis in young people is different from old age? What can we do to keep us at home do not catch TB from him? Thanks for the reply Doctor.
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First of all I would like to express appreciation for your concern on the health of your father. Hopefully you quickly complete the thesis and successfully pass well.
It is true that symptoms of infection in elderly people is not the same as young people. If a young man infected with, for example, tuberculosis, so he usually experience high fever, coughing, and weight decrease.
In elderly people the classic symptoms of infection, ie fever, do not always arise. Sometimes you see elderly people are poor appetite, feeling weak, and there is also a consciousness decreased.
So, indeed infection symptoms in older adults differ from young people. This is due to the immune system in elderly people decreased so that the body's defense less time to walk like a young. Fever is the body's effort to kill germs.
Because the immune system declines, then the fever reaction may not be clear, not even arise. Well, the symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis in the elderly is also somewhat different from young people.
Symptoms of cough, which is an important symptom of TB in young people was at an advanced age is less prominent. Usually the more frequent are the symptoms of shortness dikeluhakan. Fortunately, a heart specialist physicians sharp enough so that the later diagnosis of pulmonary TB can be enforced.
Therapy of pulmonary tuberculosis in Indonesia is available and even receive government assistance. I very much hope that you can memantu father completed therapy of pulmonary tuberculosis which takes 6-9 months.
Regarding the prevention of tuberculosis transmission in the home that is needed is an effort for the TB germs are out at the time sucked cough or breathing no other people, especially children.
Usually if pulmonary TB patients have been taking medication tuberculosis, the bacteria will no longer be found in sputum. Thus, the possibility of contagious already declining.
In addition, the doctor will usually try for a child is not infected with tuberculosis in a way to maintain good nutrition and give BCG vaccination.
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