nd American international charity organizations working in our country beat an alarm. Russia is becoming "the world's incubator for a lethal disease - a new incurable form of ТВ". As to these organizations, they-think that daily thousands of patients develop a resistance to drugs because of the fact that the doctors use "nonstandard schemes of treatment" and do not use antibiotics properly. The situation is akin to an epidemic. The foreign medics are so frightened that they have sent an open letter to the Russian President.these international organizations are. over-dramatizing the situation as they usually tend to do. Drug-resistant ТБ is not a new form of the disease at all. Drug-resistant bacteria appeared when medics started to use penicillin.a patient is taking the drug for a long period of time (even ordinary aspirin or analgin), his organism gets used to it and simply does not react. It is just the same way with anti-TB drugs. So drug-resistant ТБ cases are registered not only in Russia, but all over the world. By the way, when the Federal Anti-TB Program was being drafted, medics noted an increase of ТБ worldwide because of Koch's bacterium becoming habitually resistant to existing drugs.Russian doctors refute charges of using non-standard methods of treatment brought against them. "We are not that backward not to know how to use antibiotics". Russia has its own school of ТБ treatment, which does not differ too much from that in the West - the case is that we treat different forms of the disease using different methods. By the way, the Western system, whereby the patient is given four antibiotics daily for 6 months running, is getting a firm foothold in today's Russia as well. Drug-resistant forms of ТБ result from many patients failing to complete the course of treatment, rather than from inappropriate treatment. Some patients take drugswhich they receive free of charge, but try to economize on food, although healthy food is essential for their recovery. Moreover, there is a large group of ТБ sufferers, with homeless people, migrants, drug-addicts etc. among them, which can be saved by compulsory treatment only.today 's Russia the disease is spreading fast because of social problems. Local authorities often forget that ТБ patients are entitled under the law to separate housing. In their turn, the medics also cannot k eep ТБ incidence under control because it is related to poor living conditions. As we know, the virus of ТБ is present in 99 percent of the adult population. It remains suppressed due to local immunity, although full-fledged ТБ can be provoked by anything from stress to malnutrition. In fact, the Russian doctors a century ago believed that a person could stay immune to ТБ infection living in a room with an incurable ТБ patient, but die of consumption in case of unshared love.prisons the situation is especially critical. The incidence rate among the inmates is 50 times higher than the n...
