preventing getting active TB

Question 1

• category 1 drug
  -long-term therapy
• vitamin B6 can be helpful
• avoid foods containing tyramine
• hepatotoxicity
• given w/ other drugs to treat active TB
• given alone for latent TB

Answer 1

isoniazid (INH)

Question 2

• category 1 drug
• kills “sleeping” TB germs before they make you sick
• AE of red-orange secretions (nonharmful)
• hepatotoxicity
• wear glasses & not contacts
  best if taken on empty stomach

Answer 2

rifamycin

Question 3

• first li e of oral drugs
• most effective
• well tolerated
• hepatitis most severe AE

Answer 3

category 1