Asymptomatic tuberculosis?

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Tuberculosis has no symptoms. Generally speaking, patients with tuberculosis have more symptoms, such as chest pain, cough, hemoptysis and so on. However, many people are told that they have tuberculosis when they go to the examination, but the patients themselves have no symptoms.

Asymptomatic tuberculosis?

In the initial stage of the disease, the human body does not have the characteristic symptoms of tuberculosis, such as cough, hemoptysis, chest pain, emaciation, low fever, etc., and can not feel any "discomfort" at all. Therefore, asymptomatic pulmonary tuberculosis is usually found in the physical examination, and the current modern tuberculosis prevention and control strategy is to "see a doctor for symptoms" as the main way to find tuberculosis, and asymptomatic pulmonary tuberculosis patients found in the physical examination have undoubtedly become the beneficiaries of "early detection, early treatment, early rehabilitation".

Our bodies are immune to tuberculosis. When Mycobacterium tuberculosis enters the human body through air and other channels, such as lungs and trachea, the immune cells and immune factors in the human immune system will immediately mobilize to encircle and suppress the invading "enemies" and wipe them out. However, when the immunity of the human body is reduced due to various reasons, such as old age, diabetes, severe cold, staying up late, excessive drinking or long-term use of hormones, the virulence of the invasive Mycobacterium tuberculosis will be dominant, resulting in pathological changes of human organs such as lungs.

The patients with immune impairment (refer to the patients with primary immune deficiency diseases and receiving radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunosuppressive therapy) have occult or mild symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis, lack of respiratory symptoms, atypical lung images, and negative results of tuberculin test, tuberculosis antibody test and other immunological tests.

matters needing attention

To sum up, pulmonary tuberculosis may also have no symptoms. I hope you can pay attention to that if it is diagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis, do not think it is the doctor who exaggerates the facts, and should be treated in time. Usually the best regular physical examination, because there are many asymptomatic diseases like tuberculosis, regular physical examination can be found as soon as possible.