Infant tuberculosis symptoms?

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The incidence rate of tuberculosis has decreased significantly in the world in the past 20 years. But in the past 10 years, it has made a comeback, and the proportion of children suffering from tuberculosis has gradually increased. Children are easy to suffer from tuberculosis, mostly mild, slow onset. Tuberculosis in children is also easy to cure, but also easy to spread, such as: too young, malnutrition, low immunity, the disease can progress or worsen, easy to cause hematogenous dissemination and miliary tuberculosis and tuberculous meningitis. Tuberculosis in children mainly has the following points:

Infant tuberculosis symptoms?

When a child is suffering from tuberculosis, the child's state will appear the following several situations, such as low spirits, irritability, crying, restless sleep, night sweats and flush face; In addition, there are chronic poisoning symptoms, such as loss of appetite, emaciation, fatigue, temperament change, growth retardation, etc.

There will be respiratory symptoms, can cause paroxysmal cough, serious will appear dyspnea. Primary syndrome and bronchial lymph node tuberculosis were the most common, with few cavities in the lung. Most of them are mild, slow onset, especially in older children without obvious symptoms, often misdiagnosed as a cold.

Whether it is children's tuberculosis, or secondary tuberculosis, as long as the discharge of bacteria, tuberculosis is infectious. In general, 95% of TB patients can be cured as long as they are treated according to the cross guideline of tuberculosis: early, combined, moderate, regular and whole course treatment.

matters needing attention

Children's tuberculosis is the same as adult's tuberculosis, only the excreted tuberculosis can be infectious. If children with tuberculosis can take medicine continuously according to the doctor's requirements, there will be no infection in 2 to 3 weeks, and 90% of the patients can be cured in 6 to 8 months.