Today (November 28, 2022) Dr. Manoon Leechawengwong, a physician specializing in respiratory diseases revealing through personal Facebook the trend of drug-resistant tuberculosis In a message stating that The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released a statement for the first time in 20 years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of people infected with tuberculosis, drug-resistant tuberculosis and the number of tuberculosis deaths worldwide. return increase even though previously there was a slow decline continuously Due to slower diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis As a result, more tuberculosis patients spread the infection to those around them.
Dr. Manoon raised the case of a 57-year-old male patient with diabetes, cough, milky white sputum. sometimes with blood Night sweats, easy tiredness, low-grade fever, weight loss of 8 kg in 1 month, smoke 1 pack a day, no one in the family has tuberculosis, physical examination, auscultation of the lungs is normal, chest X-ray of the lungs it has a small cavity. In the right upper lung there are several small nodules scattered throughout both lungs.
Sputum staining and culture found TB drug sensitivity test not resistant to TB drugs Blood test negative for HIV, started TB drug treatment Patient was not allergic to TB drug After taking the medicine for 1 month, cough was reduced, fever was reduced, lung x-rays were improved. He will continue to take medicines to treat tuberculosis until the end of the 6 months
