PZA is usually well tolerated, but it may make your skin itchy. PZA may also make you sensitive to the sun so that you sunburn more easily. Ethambutol Ethambutol is effective in treating TB because the drug can enter infected cells and destroy the infection from within the cell. However, the exact mechanism of action of this drug is unknown. Streptomycin Streptomycin is not commonly used to treat TB, but it may be used in areas where drug-resistant TB is more common.
Streptomycin works by entering the bacterial cell and then stopping replication of the bacteria.
The most important factor is not spreading tuberculosis. Your family can still talk to you, but the local health department will give you guidelines to help stop the spread of disease within your family, and to the rest of the public. TB patients are often isolated to help prevent spread of this dangerous disease. If the patient is mobile while still contagious, the patient must wear a mask to prevent droplet nuclei from being expelled into the air. Others around the patient must wear a mask and gown, including while visiting the patient in isolation.