Does child tuberculosis have a fever?

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Tuberculosis in children has many symptoms, fever is just one of them. If you want to know whether low fever is tuberculosis, you should first know what characteristics of tuberculosis in children? Children's resistance is low, and tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease. Is tuberculosis fever in children? Now let me tell you something.

Does child tuberculosis have a fever?

Children with tuberculosis will have fever, but this fever is a certain rule, in the early stage of the disease will appear irregular high temperature, 1-2 weeks later gradually turn to low fever, generally low fever in the afternoon, children's body temperature is below 38 degrees, but the temperature activity is relatively large, more than 1 degree. When a child's temperature changes like this, parents should be careful

When there is a fever, it is often accompanied by night sweats. The phenomenon of night sweats is mostly in children with weak constitution, but it is also possible in normal children. Night sweats are mostly in the middle of the night or before waking up in the morning, and the sweating parts are mostly in the head, chest or armpit. Night sweats with severe abdominal lesions will appear the phenomenon that clothes and quilts are soaked through, so parents should pay attention to whether their children have tuberculosis.

In addition to the appearance of fever, night sweats and other phenomena in children with tuberculosis, there are often symptoms such as low spirits, tiredness, inactivity, crying, abnormal temperament, unexplained loss of appetite and emaciation, and often accompanied by headache, cough, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Parents should pay attention to them.

matters needing attention

If there is only low fever and no other phenomenon, it may not be tuberculosis, but if there is expectoration and cough, parents should pay attention to it and take their children to the hospital early. The above symptoms are not all tuberculosis characteristics, but also may be other diseases. But if there is no other reason and the children often contact with tuberculosis patients, the children will easily have tuberculosis, At this time, even if the child is only slightly low fever, parents have to take the child to the hospital, early treatment, good morning!