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How To Cure Pulmonary Tuberculosis?

good day!i am worry today because of my chest x-ray result is PTB fibrosis..I do not have any past history of infected TB but why I have this now.What does it mean?what is the treatment?I am afraid this can affect my work abroad..hope you can help me.thank u!
Mon, 21 Sep 2015
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PTB fibrosis is like a scar which you have in any part of the body after the wound is healed . It only means that you have had TB before and your immune system has taken care of it then. Unfortunately there is no way the fibrosis can be cured or removed. Some places abroad do not accept it and there is no remedy for the same. You can consult a pulmonologist to say that you do not have active TB currently.
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How To Cure Pulmonary Tuberculosis?

PTB fibrosis is like a scar which you have in any part of the body after the wound is healed . It only means that you have had TB before and your immune system has taken care of it then. Unfortunately there is no way the fibrosis can be cured or removed. Some places abroad do not accept it and there is no remedy for the same. You can consult a pulmonologist to say that you do not have active TB currently.