Is pleurisy contagious

summary

In life, there are often some people may get infectious diseases, infectious diseases is a very bad disease, because this disease not only harm themselves, but also harm the people around them. So when people hear that someone has an infectious disease, they try to stay away from that person. For the disease of pleurisy, people are not very aware of it. Many people will ask such questions as whether pleurisy is contagious. We will explain this problem in detail.

Is pleurisy contagious

First: pleurisy is mainly tuberculous pleurisy, which is a kind of tuberculosis, so it is as infectious as other types of tuberculosis. It is mainly transmitted through the respiratory tract, so it needs to be treated as soon as possible. Only in this way can the disease not infect more people.

Second: tuberculous pleurisy is the fourth type of tuberculosis in the current domestic tuberculosis classification. Most of all kinds of tuberculosis originally occurred on the basis of pulmonary tuberculosis, and thoracic tuberculosis is no exception. The size of its infectivity mainly depends on whether there are pulmonary tuberculosis lesions and the form of pulmonary lesions. If it is exudative, proliferative, open and hollow lesions, then it is generally infectious If it is mainly calcification, fibrosis lesions, generally not infectious.

Third: to put it simply, pleurisy is divided into: pleurisy caused by inflammation, tuberculous pleurisy, dry pleurisy. Pleurisy belongs to intrapulmonary infection and is not infectious to the outside world. Even tuberculous pleurisy, whose name is very similar to infectious disease, is not infectious. It's enclosed in the body and not contagious. But causes the pleurisy some factors tuberculosis to infect, if only is the pleurisy, does not have the tuberculosis that not to infect.

matters needing attention

Pleurisy is divided into different types, some are infectious, some are not infectious. So for patients with pleurisy, they must go to the hospital for examination, find out the cause of their illness, and then judge whether the disease is infectious.