Worried Now!

[catfish4ever]

call me an idiot if i didn't know this but. Referring to Blubble37's? Post i have just found out that fish TB is contagious to humans. i'm pretty worried now for my own health even if i my fish don't have TB. call me a sissy but i don't care this is all new to me.

 

[cynic]

So did you not have the jab at school?

 

[Blubble37]

yes, it can be transmitted to humans, but with good hygiene like washing your hands you stand little chance of getting it. you cannot get fish TB from healthy fish either

 

[fluttermoth]

Fish TB is very nasty but also vanishingly rare; most doctors have never heard of it. You're probably more likely to be struck by lightening than catch it!

 

[catfish4ever]

thanks for the support guys. phew.

 

[Blubble37]

welcome

 

[fish48]

call me an idiot if i didn't know this but. Referring to Blubble37's? Post i have just found out that fish TB is contagious to humans. i'm pretty worried now for my own health even if i my fish don't have TB. call me a sissy but i don't care this is all new to me.

Don’t get worried TB can be contagious to humans.it is very rare for humans To catch it!
The way you catch it is from fish infected with tb. It is not life threatening. it gains entry to the skin
through a cuts or grazes

 

[creeker]

I actually contacted it from a fish tank once. It was the only case my or any other doctors at that hospital (Kaiser Permanente, Walnut Creek, California) had ever seen. And yes it was life threatening! I was working in a retail fish store at the time and had a small cut on the back of my hand that became a sore which didn't heal for like two months. I finally decided I needed to have it checked out. The doctor found lumps in my lymph system leading up my arm and towards my heart. You could actually see and feel some of them under the skin. Diagnosis was tuberculosis of the lymph system, caused by contact of open wound with infected tank. The doctor thought it was probably a salt water tank. I had to take Isoniazid (TB drug) and Predisone for six months and go for checkups every week. There was a lot of concern about it reaching the heart. This was 30 years ago so I don't know if it's more or less common now. Just thought I would share my "this happened to me" story. Fluttermoth, I will be on the lookout for lightning strikes!

 

[catfish4ever]

I actually contacted it from a fish tank once. It was the only case my or any other doctors at that hospital (Kaiser Permanente, Walnut Creek, California) had ever seen. And yes it was life threatening! I was working in a retail fish store at the time and had a small cut on the back of my hand that became a sore which didn't heal for like two months. I finally decided I needed to have it checked out. The doctor found lumps in my lymph system leading up my arm and towards my heart. You could actually see and feel some of them under the skin. Diagnosis was tuberculosis of the lymph system, caused by contact of open wound with infected tank. The doctor thought it was probably a salt water tank. I had to take Isoniazid (TB drug) and Predisone for six months and go for checkups every week. There was a lot of concern about it reaching the heart. This was 30 years ago so I don't know if it's more or less common now. Just thought I would share my "this happened to me" story. Fluttermoth, I will be on the lookout for lightning strikes!

wow! so sorry. I'm even more worried now!

 

[OldMan47]

Be aware that what is called fish TB is not the same disease as we call TB in humans. It is an entirely different disease organism although catching it could be a health threat to humans.
I have no idea what you may have seen as fish symptoms in the problem you had creeker but it would not have been what we call fish TB.

 

[Blubble37]

+1 what you had was dirty tankitis

 

[catfish4ever]

lol.

 

[creeker]

The doctor called it TB of the lymph system, treated it with TB medicine, and said I got it from a fish tank. Somehow TB got in my system. Not sure if it was from the fish or just the dirty tank itself. I was constantly cleaning out tanks. This was in the day of the air driven UG filter in salt water tanks, so there was a lot of sediment in these commercial tanks. My boss got upset because he was worried about it becoming a worker's compensation case. I would not worry about catching anything from a home tank. You have to realize the number of tanks I was dealing with. Literally hundreds of fresh and at least sixty saltwater, and retail tanks are more crowded with fish than home tanks. Just be sure to always wash your hands after having them in the tank, especially saltwater and livebearer tanks. I am aware of Swimmers Granuloma, it was not that.