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How long does a TB test take?

April 26, 2017Conditions diseases Health Other - Diseases TB Test

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How long does a TB test take?

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We use a two-step TB test. On the first day, the test is delivered to your forearm; 48 hours later a nurse “reads” the results of your skin test. The visits are brief, but you must be sure to schedule them so that you can return 48 hours later for a reading.

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We use a two-step TB test. On the first day, the test is delivered to your forearm. 48 hours later a nurse must “read” the results of your skin test. The visits are brief, but you must be sure to schedule them so that you can return 48 hours later for a reading.

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Hello, The sort of TB tests I know, are a bit longer than that. In the UK, we use the ‘Heaf’ test, I believe in America they use the ‘Mantoux’ test. Both work in the same way, anyway, and they are both skin tests. You have to have a tiny injection into your lower arm of a very dilute extract, of killed TB germs. Then you go back about a week later and have it ‘read.’ What is being looked for, is whether the body has reacted at all to the presence of the dead TB germ in your skin… this phot shows the injection for a Mantoux test… http://saifulislam.com/wp-content/upload… and in this picture someone is shown measuring the exact size of the skin reaction… http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co… The test result can be interpreted in various ways. If there is no skin reaction at all, it sh

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Hello, The sort of TB tests I know, are a bit longer than that. In the UK, we use the ‘Heaf’ test, I believe in America they use the ‘Mantoux’ test. Both work in the same way, anyway, and they are both skin tests. You have to have a tiny injection into your lower arm of a very dilute extract, of killed TB germs. Then you go back about a week later and have it ‘read.’ What is being looked for, is whether the body has reacted at all to the presence of the dead TB germ in your skin… this phot shows the injection for a Mantoux test… http://saifulislam.com/wp-content/upload… and in this picture someone is shown measuring the exact size of the skin reaction… http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co… The test result can be interpreted in various ways. If there is no skin reaction at all, it shows, not only that you do not have tuberculosis, but that your body has never been in contact with a TB germ. If there is a slight reaction, it usually means, not only that you don’t have tuber