Positive Mantoux, Child Care center…HELP!!!!?
Question by LeAnn S: positive mantoux, child care center…HELP!!!!?
I have a history of negative mantoux tests, decades. In mid-August I had a negative mantoux, and then last week I had a mantoux test for another job. I had immediate intense itching, eyes burning, scratchy, developed hives on my neck on the car ride home. I have gone to an infectious disease dr, they did AFB cultures, when can I get the results? My current job, started in September is at a daycare center, w/ +/-100 children and >100 families involved. Employees are not required to have mantoux tests in child care centers in MN. I am very concerned someone is spreading TB at the child care center, but the health dept. is not!! I have had very little contact with anyone other than the children and employees there. Kids (some adopted from russia, india, etc)and adults have been coughing since I started working there. Was it the allergic reaction that caused the positive TB test, or a booster effect, or? If you have kids in child care centers, make sure all workers are screened!!
It was a transdermal PPD Mantoux, not a multi-pronged test. Induration measured 22 X 21 mm. Adopted children from foreign countries are cleared by a physician in that country, not the U.S. MN is a state that no longer screens children, uless there are symptoms that would indicate the test. There are many symptoms of TB, but most common are cold symptoms and a cough that lasts greater than 2 – 3 weeks, sometimes blood streaked, fatigue, night sweats, low fever. How many times do you think doctors see children with cold symptoms? It’s just a cold, right?
Just because there is medication available that could hopefully kill it off, should we not try to prevent the spread of the disease? I had two mantoux tests within that time 1.) for a state license I needed, and 2.) for a new job that required it within 30 days of hire. False positives are possible from a booster effect, go to your favorite search engine and type in “tuberculosis booster effect.”
Many misconceptions w/TB.
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Answer by elgil
How come you have so many tests? As far as I know, a positive means one of two things : You have the decease in an advanced stage, or you were expose to it. In your case, must be the last one.
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