Pulmonary TB
The usual treatment is: – 2 antibiotics (isoniazid and rifampicin) for 6 month – 2 additional antibiotics (pyrazinamide and ethambutol) for the first 2 months of the 6-month treatment period
You may initially be prescribed a corticosteroid such as prednisolone for several weeks to take at the same time as your antibiotics. This will help reduce any swelling in the affected areas.
Multidrug-resistant TB requires a much longer course of antibiotics; between 9 to 24 months depending on the strain. Multidrug-resistant TB tends to have less favourable outcomes than standard TB.
Treatment for latent TB generally involves: – either taking a combination of rifampicin and isoniazid for 3 month – or isoniazid on its own for 6 month