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Posts: 6092 (30/04/2008 22:26:13) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None Just on our local news, 30 Children tested positive with TB at an independant school in Birmingham! But there's no need to worry! They say! Who are they kidding? http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080430/tuk-30-pupils-test-positive-for-tb-6323e80.html Anyone with little ones please take note. It's the infectious form of TB. love elaine xx
bobiesgirl		#1	[-]
Posts: 326 (30/04/2008 23:44:56) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Thanks Elaine for alerting us to this,it is very worrying to think "old" diseases that we thought had died out,making a comeback,like pnumonia is very popular where i live,i dont know that popular is the right word,but it seems i have known a few people in my area who have had it in the past year,including my 29yr old son. Take care out there Marian x
Maccasmum		#2	[-]
Posts: 928 (30/04/2008 23:52:08) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I saw that on the local news Elaine. Incidents of T.B. are increasing rapidly in the UK, my OH works in the NHS (Clinical Audit) and has been looking at this in our area, cases have risen rapidly in the last few years. One of the doctors they spoke to on the news was saying that some forms are becoming drug resistant and there have been no new drugs to treat TB for years. Makes you think Kate x
ELAINE LUCY		#3	[-]
Posts: 6092 (01/05/2008 00:13:21) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I missed my TB jab at school,(BCG), because I was off with Flu when my year all had the skin tests. A few years ago I saw articles about odd cases of TB in London and the risk of spread. I suffer with Asthma, and at the time worked in a public place on reception. I asked my GP for a TB jab because I was concerned. Referred to the Chest clinic, I was told I did not need a jab, unless I had been in contact with a TB sufferer! They said I had probably 'aquired' immunity? They thought it strange that I had requested one! I never understood this. I was dealing with people daily who were sick! We never knew if someone had TB. Treating instead of preventing is not the best answer. I was never even tested for resistance. Now I am worried again. My son was recently in a hospital in London. He was flabbergasted to see signs in several languages, INSIDE THE WARDS AND CORRIDORS, reading No Spitting!!! Disgusting that they have to even put up such signs! love elaine xx
Mac		#4	[-]
Posts: 1841 (01/05/2008 00:26:11) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Spitting is such a vile habit isn't it? Apart from spreading diseases it is just repulsive. Sadly it is not uncommon to see, mostly men and adolescent boys, spitting in the streets of London. Also it is not the preserve of immigrants - such behaviour seems to be relatively common amongst the indiginous population. It seems unbelievable that such behaviour still goes on when we are all supposed to be so much better informed than in the so called 'bad old days'. Lynn x
Maccasmum		#5	[-]
Posts: 928 (01/05/2008 00:32:07) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	There shouldn't be any need for such signs anywhere, I do remember seeing them in buses when I was a child but not seen them for years. I don't think thatpeople from some countries feel the same about public spitting as we do though!!YUK YUK!!! I can understand your concern about TB when you didn't have a BCG, how would you know if you had been in contact with it, especially when you were working with the public. It really wouldn't put anyone out to do a BCG on you, some types can be very infectious - a cough or sneeze can pass it on. I agree that prevention is far better, although it is much easier to treat than it used to be. I was in the fortunate position of being tested more than once when I was nursing even though I did have a BCG at school. That's my rant over for now, need to get to bed before I meet myself getting up again. Take care Kate x
HIARY		#6	[-]
Posts: 757 (01/05/2008 01:36:15) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I did not have the BCG either, but that was, because I was Asthmatic and not allowed it. I was also not allowed to be immunized as a child and when the Smallpox scare was around I could not have that injection, due to Asthma. TB used to be considered the poor man's disease, you would not believe that this is the 21st C. and not the 19th C. All the old illnesses seem to be returning, which shows how much we have improved, I don't think. Hilary xxx
Shirla		#7	[-]
Posts: 817 (01/05/2008 07:15:22) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I don't mean to sound racist or anything - but it's coming in with the imigrants. The eastern European countries have a lot of it & they don't have the same imunisation programmes as we have here. Where we lived pratically TB free in the 60's & 70's is because almost everyone was imunised against all childhood & infectious illnesses. Mother's need to reconsider imunisation now - just for this reason, where there were few cases before - it's a different story now. Sorry if I've offended anyone - but that's the way it is. Shirla
EuniceM		#8	[-]
Posts: 4049 (01/05/2008 08:33:16) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Shirla you said what I was going to say, I know it is not PC but TB is being brought into our country by the immigrants.
playingwithpaper		#9	[-]
Posts: 257 (01/05/2008 09:17:21) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Isnt just the immigrants, more & more people are taking hols to places where it's rife. My mates dad picked it up on a trip to Goa.
craftytiger		#10	[-]
Posts: 316 (01/05/2008 09:18:40) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Just had a quick google for TB, apparently it can be passed on by singing!! Hope there's health warnings on all school choirs Sorry had to lighten the mood before I went on a rant about being PC. Clair

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