Tuberculosis

Paper Summary:

This paper focuses on three symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis: low-grade fever; weight loss, which may or may not be associated with anorexia; and coughing, which often brings up bloody phlegm as the condition progresses. The author points out that the disease is transmitted through particulate matter in the air, but it is not highly contagious when compared with the common cold. The paper relates that the mainstream treatment is pharmacological intervention, but increasing attention is being paid to complimentary or alternative interventions, such as diet, in terms of treatment of the symptoms and of prevention.

Table of Contents
Symptoms
Epidemiology
Options for Management
Complimentary Medicine Methods

From the Paper:

"A person is more likely to be a host for the disease if their immune system is not working properly. This is one of the associations made between TB and AIDS/HIV epidemics, because the decreased immune system functioning makes it easier for these people to get tuberculosis. This is also likely one of the reasons that people over the age of sixty five are more likely to be hosts for the disease. Once a person inhales the disease, in its pulmonary form it finds its way to the alveoli, and from there it goes through the lymph nodes and spreads."

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