Symptoms of tuberculosis infection
summary
Tuberculosis is a relatively infectious chronic disease, which may be caused by bacterial infection. Respiratory transmission is the main way of tuberculosis infection. When patients sneeze or speak loudly, they may discharge the bacteria containing tuberculosis into the air, and healthy people will be infected after inhaling tuberculosis bacteria. When healthy people are infected with tuberculosis, there will be some symptoms. Then, the symptoms of tuberculosis infection will be described in detail below.
Symptoms of tuberculosis infection
First of all, when infected by pulmonary tuberculosis, there will be some symptoms, patients can make self judgment, such as feeling weak, easily tired, listless, unwilling to move and so on. Fever is the most common symptom. Generally, a low fever will appear in the afternoon. Some patients have fever on their cheeks, palms and soles of feet. This situation may last for several weeks, because of the heat shown during pulmonary infection. In addition, night sweating is also a common symptom of infected tuberculosis patients. Sweating after sleeping at night almost makes clothes and quilts wet. Sweating stops after waking up. This situation often occurs in patients with weak constitution.
Secondly, after being infected by tuberculosis, there will be symptoms of cough. When the cough continues for more than three weeks, the sputum coughed with blood can be highly suspected of being infected by tuberculosis.
Other symptoms such as insomnia, some women will have menstrual disorders and even amenorrhea symptoms. Those who have the above symptoms should go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible. They may get sick in the early stage after tuberculosis infection. They can recover quickly as long as they are treated in time.
matters needing attention
To sum up, when infected by tuberculosis, there will be some abnormal symptoms, patients can judge whether they are infected. If you find that you have general weakness, fatigue, low fever, cough and other symptoms, you should pay enough attention to it. You must go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible. If you are diagnosed with tuberculosis, don't be too flustered, because you are only in the early stage of tuberculosis. As long as you adjust your good attitude and actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment, you will soon recover.