Is it okay to stop taking tuberculosis pills for 7 days and start taking them again?

Taking TB medication for 7 days after stopping it on your own and subsequently wanting to take it on your own is not recommended and needs to be decided after consulting a physician and assessing the condition again. If you stop taking the medication for 7 days without the guidance of your specialist, your condition will be easily affected. Because the course of anti-tuberculosis treatment is usually quite long, usually need 6 months, or even 1 year, 2 years, patients need to continue to take the drug treatment, can not stop taking the drug in the middle of the unauthorized. After 7 days of stopping the medication at will, you need to consult your physician to assess your condition again, and if there are no special circumstances, you can consider continuing to use the original anti-tuberculosis drug regimen, or changing the regimen if drug resistance occurs. Diseases induced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection are often stubborn, and must be treated with a sufficient amount of medication and a full course of therapy to achieve good therapeutic results; otherwise, it may easily lead to recurrent episodes of the disease, or even lead to aggravation of the disease, and so the treatment should not be interrupted.