What are the symptoms of severe tuberculosis?

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Tuberculosis, commonly known as "tuberculosis", is a chronic respiratory infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mycobacterium tuberculosis may invade various organs of human body, but mainly invades the lung, which is called pulmonary tuberculosis. Tuberculosis bacterium invades what viscera to call tuberculosis of what viscera, if encroach meningeal to call meningeal tuberculosis, encroach bone to call bone tuberculosis, encroach kidney to call kidney tuberculosis. What are the symptoms of severe tuberculosis? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What are the symptoms of severe tuberculosis?

The common symptoms of tuberculosis are cough, expectoration and blood in sputum. Other common symptoms include low fever, night sweats, afternoon fever, chest pain, fatigue, weight loss, dyspnea, etc. Cough and expectoration for two weeks or sputum with blood, may have tuberculosis, should be timely to the hospital.

Tuberculosis seriously affects the health of individual patients, if not treated thoroughly, they will lose the ability to work, and even cause death. In addition, tuberculosis is transmitted through respiratory tract, which is highly infectious and endangers the health of others. A smear positive patient with pulmonary tuberculosis can infect an average of 10-15 susceptible persons a year without treatment. If the tuberculosis epidemic is not controlled, it will also have a significant impact on the national economy.

MDR-TB is more harmful to individuals, families and society. Compared with common pulmonary tuberculosis, the infection period of MDR-TB is longer due to the long time of diagnosis and treatment, and the patients can not heal and move around, which greatly increases the chance and scope of MDR-TB transmission. Once the infected person is infected, they will directly become MDR-TB patients. In addition, the treatment time of MDR-TB is as long as two years, and the treatment cost is expensive. The cost of anti TB drugs alone is as high as 30000-40000 yuan, which is 100 times of the cost of ordinary tuberculosis, and will bring heavy economic burden to families and society.

matters needing attention

When there is a highly infectious tuberculosis patient at home, it is necessary to find out whether other members of the family are also infected with tuberculosis. Other members of the family should go to TB prevention and control institutions in time for early detection and treatment.