Tuberculosis Drugs and Treatment for that Disease
TB disease occurs when tuberculosis bacteria become active and the immune system is unable to stop the bacteria from multiplying. A person with tuberculosis will become ill. People with tuberculosis can spread the bacterium to others with whom they spend a lot of time.
It's critical that persons with
tuberculosis get treated, finish their medications, and take them exactly as
directed. They may become unwell again if they stop taking the drugs too soon,
and if they do not take the drugs appropriately, the TB bacteria that are still
alive may develop resistance to the drugs. Drug-resistant tuberculosis is more
difficult and expensive to treat. Multiple medications must be used for 6 to 9
months to treat tuberculosis. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has
approved ten medications to treat tuberculosis.
According to the "Coherent Market Insights" Global
Industry Insights, Trends, Outlook, and Opportunity Analysis of Tuberculosis
Drugs Market.
Three forms of tuberculosis drugs are
isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol, and pyrazinamide.
If you have tuberculosis, it is
critical that you take your medicine on a regular basis and finish the course.
You may develop ill again if you stop
taking the antibiotics too soon.
When two or more medications with
shown in vitro susceptibility are given simultaneously, each aids in the
prevention of tubercle bacilli resistant to the others. The gold standard for
initiating tuberculosis treatment is four-drug therapy. Second-line medications
are pharmaceuticals that are used to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Second-line antibiotics include levofloxacin, moxifloxacin, bedaquiline,
delamanid, and linezolid. Pretomanid is a revolutionary second-line treatment
for drug-resistant tuberculosis that was first proposed in 2019. Isoniazid
(INH), rifampin (RIF), and ethambutol are the first-line anti-TB medicines that
constitute the basis of therapy regimens (EMB).
Patients who have never received TB
treatment or who have received less than one month of anti-TB medications are
considered new patients. Unless there is a significant level of isoniazid
resistance in the area, new patients are assumed to have medication sensitive
TB (TB that is not resistant to any of the TB treatments). Other people who may
have drug-resistant tuberculosis are those who have developed active TB disease
after coming into contact with someone who has drug-resistant tuberculosis.
The World Health Organization (WHO)
advises six months of medication treatment for new patients with drug-sensitive
tuberculosis (TB). A two-month "intensive" therapy period should be
followed by a four-month "continuation" phase.
They should take isoniazid with
rifampicin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol for the two-month
"intensive" medication treatment phase.
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