Symptoms of tuberculosis in pregnant women

summary

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease, and once suffering from it will be very painful, hemoptysis, chest pain, backache, weakness, fatigue, dyspnea and so on, are very common symptoms, but also very torture. Once pregnant women suffer from tuberculosis, it is not only easy to cause the death and infection of the fetus, but also serious to cause the death of pregnant women.

Symptoms of tuberculosis in pregnant women

First, tuberculosis symptoms: respiratory symptoms include cough, expectoration, blood sputum or hemoptysis. May have chest pain, chest tightness or dyspnea. The amount of expectoration is not much, it can be more when there are cavities, sometimes there are caseous substances in the sputum, about 1 / 3 ~ 1 / 2 of pulmonary tuberculosis has sputum blood or hemoptysis, the number is different, the stable and cured can cause hemoptysis due to secondary bronchiectasis or calcification.

Second, cough, expectoration, blood sputum or hemoptysis for more than 2 weeks are important clues for screening 80% of TB infection sources. General tuberculosis without dyspnea, a large number of pleural effusion, spontaneous pneumothorax, or slow fibrosis cavity type tuberculosis and complicated with pulmonary heart, respiratory failure, heart failure often have dyspnea. Systemic symptoms often include low fever, night sweats, anorexia, emaciation, fatigue, irregular menstruation, etc.

Third, PPD test (pure protein derivative) positive does not mean that it is pure protein derivative of tuberculosis, BCG or other mycobacteria: it is made from the culture filtrate of BCG or other mycobacteria. It is rarely used in clinical diagnosis of tuberculosis. Can only say that infected with tuberculosis, does not mean suffering from tuberculosis, tuberculosis can not be diagnosed accordingly.

matters needing attention

Pulmonary tuberculosis is a very terrible disease. Once pregnant women are diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis, it is not recommended to continue pregnancy in medicine, because the continuation of pregnancy is easy to cause the death of the fetus, even if the fetus is born, it is easy to infect pulmonary tuberculosis, and it is easy to cause the death of pregnant women in the process of production, so pregnant women find themselves suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, The best way is to terminate the pregnancy in time.