86 Tuberculosis in Children

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How does TB most commonly present in kids? : Pneumonia not responding to standard antibiotics (80%)

How does the standard TB symptoms change in kids? : Don’t really get night sweats in young young kids

If you’re thinking about TB in a young kid who else should you check? : Primary Care Giver/Mum

What are two atypical presentations of pulmonary TB in kids? : Acute Severe Pneumonia, Wheeze (from compression from hilar lymph nodes, wheeze wont respond to bronchodilators)

What’s the most common extrapulmonary TB in kids? : TB Adenitis (discrete, painless fixed lymph nodes), TB Meningitis second most common

Mortality of TB Meningitis in Kids : 1/2 - 2/3!

Tuberculin Skin Test in Kids, what is positive : > 10mm in not immunosuppressed. > 5mm in immunosuppresed

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