My daughter is 7 yrs old. she has been detected with MANTOUX test Positive, but her other tests i.e. chest X-ray, TLC, DLC & whole Abdomen utra sound are NORMAL. Is My daughter is Affected with Tuberculosis? Pls. ADVISE ? Her Ht. as on today is 120 Her Wt. as on today is 22.6
His understand your complaint. Positive PPD test(Manitou) does not mean that the patient has tuberculosis diseases. If the patient does not have complains like chronic cough, weight loss fever, low appetite and PPD positive the pulmonologist will take the patient under observation for a long time.However, it depends on the epidemiological situation of TB of the country. Because in countries where the disease of tb has high prevalence and incidence PPD positive has not so importance, but it is the examination of the sputum bacillus of tb that is more importance for the diseases. While in countries with low prevalence and incidence only positive PPD test may be the cause to begin a prophylactic treatment for the patient. In this case I think that the other members of the family should do the PPD test. And the most important think here is to discover the most possible origin from where your daughter has fallen in contact with persons which had had that microbe. The microbe of tb is contagious only through coughing. So in conclusion better to see a lung specialist. Thank you Chat Doctor.