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Tuberculosis
I'm 20 female. myself and few other was effected from a girl with tb l. I was tested a few months ago with a prick test and came out positive but clear on the x ray. I was the only one out off all of them not to get bloods done. do we get checked again in a few months? I have been feeling tight around my chest and heart palpations. weak and tired and lost weight but comes and goes.
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Dr. Amit Kumar Poddar
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44 yrs exp
Kolkata
There is no necessity of checking repeatedly.if you are symptomatic eg fever.cough chest pain weight loss. Enlarged lymph nodes etc then sputum for AFB.chest XRAY lymph node FNAC will be helpful in
Determining TB disease.
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