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Suffering From Tuberculosis. Taking AKT-3. Not Able To Eat Properly. Is It Safe To Replace AKT-3 To Rcinex?
Hello, My mom suffering from tuberculosis last 15 days , she is 63 ( F ), she is taking AKT-3 medicine every morning - but last 5 days she is not feeling well, even she is not able to eat anything properly due to heavy AKT-3 Medicine, i want to change her medicine, i want to divert AKT-3 to Rcinex ( morning ) & Combutol ( evening ), is it safe for her or not.? please advise me..? ( and sorry for my bad english.... )
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Thu, 28 Jun 2012
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if your mother is not able to eat properly you need to discuss with your treating doctor regarding this. loss of appetite can be due to multiple issues and drug toxicity on liver is one of them. She needs to get her liver function tested and change of drugs must be under medical supervision only
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