What will happen if I am diagnosed with tuberculosis? - 日本ではたらく外国人のための健康ハンドブック1

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What will happen if I am diagnosed with tuberculosis?

2. 2 What will happen if I am diagnosed with tuberculosis?

•Tuberculosis is a disease that can be cured with medicine.

• The usual treatment period is 6 months, but it can be longer.
• If the patient has TB of the lungs and is likely to infect others,

he or she may need to be hospitalized temporarily.
• Medical expenses are partly supported by public funds.

• Be sure to comply with the instructions of the doctors at the

hospital.
• If your symptoms are mild, once you start treatment,

you will be able to work normally while being treated as an outpatient.

• There is no need for you to go home to your country.

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In some cases, there are almost no symptoms of tuberculosis. Also, even if symptoms disappear after taking medication, it does not mean that the patient is cured. If you stop TB treatment halfway through, you may develop drug-resistant TB (drug-resistant TB), which cannot be cured. Once you start taking the medication, you should continue to take it every day until the confirmation of cure.
In some cases, TB infection may be diagnosed before the patient becomes ill (called latent TB infection). In such cases, medication can prevent the onset of the disease.

A patient with severe plumonary TB may infect others, but ususally the patient will no longer be contagious after 2 weeks of treatment.
There are also types of tuberculosis (called latent tuberculosis) that have no symptoms and that there is no possibility of infecting others.
If treatment is needed, you can prevent symptoms from appearing by taking medicine.

[List of Consulting Services]

[Tuberculosis]

MiHAN (Migrant Health Action Network)

Tuberculosis Telephone Consultation Service of The Research Institute of Tuberculosis Department of Programme Support
https://jata.or.jp/various-inquiries/telephone-consultation/

TB Action Network