It's 15 days now doctors unable to find

[Subramanian S]

between pneumonia or TuberCulosis, patient is static. what we shud do? she has been admitted to hospital a fortnight before, three docs are takin care, she has been on Intravenously given fluids and put on pure oxygen. now doctors say anti-biotics given is not responding and the patient's condition is static

[nethertry]

sounds like a job for House

[yunesa]

What is the age of the patient? Gender? What is the initial diagnosis? Any laboratory exams given to her? Is she in a coma? There are too many variables. -yunesa@yahoo.com

[geishagirl61]

I should hope they did a chest X-ray to rule out one or the other. The radiologist will be able to tell the difference. There are some rare types of pneumonia that do not respond to the more routine antibiotic treatment. This patient can always ask for a second opinion.

[jumps62]

No one gets pure oxygen. sounds like you need to ask some question's due to the fact that pneumonia can be spotted in an x-ray or TB can be found by a blood test. Id say your doctors need to tell you something.