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How To Treat Running Spiking Fever?

my husband is running spiking fever for the past 8 months with no prognosis. No other symptom except fever, all blood chemistry clean.... even esr and crp normal, bone marrow normal, pet scan normal, Ct scan normal, echo cardiogram normal..... tested montoux positive and quantiferon gold positive. Put on ATT 6 months ago but no change..... fever continues to come back every 3rd or 4th day and goes up to 101 or 102.
posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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Hi i did review your concern.
Your husband could be having multidrug resistant tuberculosis.
I would advice you to consult your doctor and get tested for MDR-TB test to change the drug regimen as it does not respond to routine ATT therapy.
The drugs used for MDR TB are azithromycin,clarithromycin and amikacin few other drugs.

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How To Treat Running Spiking Fever?

Hi i did review your concern. Your husband could be having multidrug resistant tuberculosis. I would advice you to consult your doctor and get tested for MDR-TB test to change the drug regimen as it does not respond to routine ATT therapy. The drugs used for MDR TB are azithromycin,clarithromycin and amikacin few other drugs. I hope this helps Wish you all the best Thank you for using health care magic.