Is tuberculosis asymptomatic?

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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. Is tuberculosis asymptomatic? Now let's talk about it.

Is tuberculosis asymptomatic?

The most typical symptoms of tuberculosis are persistent cough, fever and expectoration, and now the symptoms of tuberculosis have become particularly invisible. A 28-year-old woman coughed and had a fever for two consecutive weeks, but her fever did not subside after taking the medicine. After skin test, she found that it was Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tan Shouyong once pointed out that some young people were only found suffering from tuberculosis in the college entrance examination. He said that the onset of tuberculosis is characterized by slowness. Although symptoms and signs have their own characteristics, they are not specific. About one third of people have no obvious symptoms.

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".

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.

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To sum up, pulmonary tuberculosis may have no symptoms. If it is diagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis, don't think it's the doctor's exaggeration. We should treat it 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.