How long after stopping treatment for tuberculosis is it necessary to retest

Review of tuberculosis patients after stopping treatment should be based on the patient’s condition, liver function, and varies from person to person, generally can be one month, three months, half a year after stopping the drug when the review. Tuberculosis is a chronic disease that can be treated, and most of them can be clinically cured after early and active anti-tuberculosis treatment. Tuberculosis patients should be rechecked according to liver function and whether sputum is positive again, which can be rechecked at one month, three months and half a year respectively. Tuberculosis is a kind of disease that is extremely easy to drug resistance and recurrence, so the treatment of tuberculosis should be standardized, the course of treatment is sufficient and the combination of drugs, all in order to prevent drug resistance and recurrence. The most common side effect of anti-tuberculosis treatment is liver damage, sometimes liver-protecting drugs are applied at the same time of anti-tuberculosis treatment, so liver function should be monitored during and after treatment. Generally, when anti-tuberculosis treatment is stopped, liver function can gradually return to normal.