What symptom does cerebral tuberculosis have

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Everyone has heard of tuberculosis, but what about brain tuberculosis? This kind of disease of brain tuberculosis is generally caused by the infection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the central nervous system of human body, which will present the state of granuloma. Generally speaking, the probability of brain binding is about 1.4%. This disease can occur anywhere in the human brain. And the probability of this disease in children and adolescents is the largest. Of course, many times, brain tuberculosis is secondary to other tuberculous diseases, so if the body has tuberculous diseases, it must be actively treated to avoid brain tuberculosis. Let's introduce some related knowledge.

What symptom does cerebral tuberculosis have

First, brain tuberculosis can be systemic or localized. If it is a systemic type of cerebral tuberculosis, the patient may continue to have fever after the onset of the disease, and will always cough, and even cough can appear bloody sputum, the patient's body will gradually lose weight.

Second: systemic cerebral tuberculosis patients intracranial pressure will increase, and cerebellar regulation function will appear disorder, at this time the patient will feel headache, will continue to vomit, optic papilla can appear edema phenomenon. Sometimes, patients with systemic cerebral tuberculosis will have ataxia and nystagmus.

Third: if it is a limited type of cerebral tuberculosis patients will be persistent low fever, sleep at night will sweat, the body is also emaciated, and ESR significantly accelerated. This type of TB patients may have hemiplegia, aphasia, and sometimes epilepsy.

matters needing attention

Brain tuberculosis can be treated with anti tuberculosis drugs. Of course, sometimes tuberculosis may be very serious. At this time, it is necessary to remove intracranial tuberculosis lesions through surgery. After surgery, it is necessary to continue to use anti tuberculosis drugs for about three to six months.