Symptoms of tuberculous pleural effusion

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Many people have heard of tuberculous pleural effusion, but they don't really understand it. Tuberculosis generally occurs in areas with backward economy and poor health conditions. Tuberculosis is a disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which can appear in many organs and tissues of human body. We often say that tuberculosis is a kind of respiratory infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis which infects and destroys the lung and lymphatic system. If Mycobacterium tuberculosis or its autolysis, metabolites into the pleural cavity, then it will cause the disease of tuberculous pleurisy. Because there are inflammatory diseases in the pleura, which will affect the absorption and filtration of pleural fluid, so pleural effusion is easy to occur.

Symptoms of tuberculous pleural effusion

First: tuberculous pleural effusion will appear what discomfort? This generally has a direct relationship with the amount of effusion, because there is a certain amount of liquid in the pleural cavity of normal human body, which can play a lubricating role and avoid pleural adhesion. So generally, if it is a small amount of effusion, then generally there will be no obvious clinical manifestations or only chest pain, irritating dry cough, slightly stuffy feeling, the main performance is tuberculous pleurisy tuberculosis poisoning performance.

Second: if the amount of pleural effusion is further increased, up to 300-500ml or more, the patient will feel chest tightness or mild shortness of breath and other discomfort symptoms, but with the pleural effusion is further increased and gathered, there will be manifestations of pressing the heart, lung and mediastinum, such as dyspnea, sitting breathing, palpitation, cyanosis and other clinical manifestations, but the chest pain is unknown It's obvious.

Third: what are the different clinical signs of pleural effusion patients? This is also directly related to the amount of pleural effusion. When the amount of pleural effusion is small, there are generally no obvious signs or only touch the pleural friction. With the increase of effusion volume, the liquid will squeeze the lung, which will lead to the weakening or disappearance of the respiratory sound on the affected side, the dullness of percussion on the affected side, and the weakening or disappearance of tactile tremor. These are primarily judged by the doctor's palpation.

matters needing attention

Tuberculous pleural effusion is the main source, because the patient has tuberculosis infection, so the key to treat this disease is to treat the primary disease as soon as possible, at the same time, strengthen exercise, enhance the body's resistance, and actively inoculate BCG, which can reduce the occurrence of the disease.