How lymph node TB with liver infection be concurrently treated?
Patient: hi my mother is diagnosed with lymph tb, she is started using atk4 medicines for one month, suddenly she got liver infection, her bilirubin and sgot and sgpt levels are too high, they stopped her medication except rmp, etm, and few antibiotics, now they started with inh and her sgot and sgpt levels are elevated within one week, now they stopped inh,  how long this may continue , she is 65 years old Doctor: Hi, dearI have gone through your question. I can understand your concern.She has lymphnode tuberculosis. But INH is hepatotoxic drugs and she can not tolerate INH. INH causing liver damage in her. SO she should take 2nd line or 3rd line anti tuberculosis treatment. Consult your doctor and take treatment accordingly.Hope I have answered your question, if you have any doubts then contact me at bit.ly/Drsanghvihardik, I will be happy to answer you.Thanks for using health care magic.Wish you a very good health.