Ministry of Health adopts new measures to combat tuberculosis
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The biggest obstacle for the cure of disease is the interruption of treatment.
BCG vaccine, applied in the first days of life, only protects against the most serious forms of the disease.
Does not prevent against the most common type, pulmonary tuberculosis, transmitted through the air when patients cough, sneeze or talk.
The symptoms are: cough with secretions more than three weeks, fatigue, weight loss, fever and night sweats.
According to the Health Ministry in the last seven years the rate of incidence of the disease fell 24% and of deaths, 31%. Even then 73 thousand people fall ill every year and almost five thousand die.
In this hospital, where patients are treated across the Midwest region, Edmilson and Agnaldo are in search of healing.
"I weighed 68 pounds, arrived here with 30 pounds," said Edmilson flag, farmer.
In severe cases, the patient must be isolated for treatment, which lasts six months and can not be stopped.
The suspension of the use of antibiotics to the first signs of improvement the problem, let the bacillus the disease stronger. In several countries have started to emerge kinds ultra-resistant to medications.
The disease spreads more easily in poor regions such as the Rocinha shantytown in Rio de Janeiro and the hill of the Cross, in Porto Alegre.
In these areas the incidence rates are 12 times higher than the national average, but anyone is free to pick up the disease.
"The rich also tuberculosis may have several diseases that are risk factors for tuberculosis. For example, diabetics, people who use steroids are risk factors for disease. Now, as public health, the poor have more TB than those who eat, "says Paulo Feitosa, coordinator of treatment of tuberculosis.
Source: Official Today / Rede Globo
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