Originally Posted by
DougRNS
I had the mumps and chicken pox as a yute. I took a prescribed medication (Izonizid?) from the state Dept of health as a teen when I failed/passed a mantoux(Sp.?) test for TB screening.
FEAR NOT! I'm still awesome.
I looked it up. I was close it is isoniazid.
How did you get exposed to TB?
I started going positive on skin testing about 20 yrs ago and people kept trying to treat me. Then my daughter converted and they gave us both Quantiferon gold tests, the modern gold standard. I, who had been cared for by a Native American nanny, grown up in lower Manhattan, and trained in inner city hospitals was negative, and suburban private school girl was positive. Go know.
0h, and daughter got a rip-roaring allergic reaction to isoniazid and has been resisting treatment since.