Is tuberculosis hereditary

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My wife has been coughing all of a sudden recently. She has a bad cough and her face is red. She also says that she has lung pain and can't eat food. She has no appetite at all. She is thin. But when she goes to the hospital, she says that she has tuberculosis. Now let's share whether tuberculosis can be inherited.

Is tuberculosis hereditary

First, pulmonary tuberculosis is not hereditary, but it is a respiratory infectious disease, so sometimes it is a family aggregation phenomenon, that is, there are many people with pulmonary tuberculosis in a family, the reason is still caused by close contact infection. Tuberculosis is a pulmonary infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is a serious threat to human health.

Second: tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease of respiratory system caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which does not belong to genetic disease. If several people in a family are suffering from tuberculosis, it can only show that the family's physical quality is not very good, and they live in the same environment, and they are infected by tuberculosis bacilli at the same time, which is not caused by heredity.

Third: in general, if there is tuberculosis, it will be infectious. If there is tuberculosis in pregnant children, there will be other diseases. Children may also be infected. This is an infectious disease, not a genetic disease.

matters needing attention

Tuberculosis patients should fully cooperate with doctors, adhere to the rules of the whole use of drugs, do not blindly stop the drug, regular review, so that doctors can timely understand the changes in the condition, must be thorough treatment, otherwise it will cause repeated.