Symptoms of tuberculosis in children

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Children infected with tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease, but also a systemic disease, all organs of the human body can suffer from tuberculosis. But in the human body suffering from tuberculosis more organs are lung, kidney, liver, stomach, brain, intestine, bladder, skin, testis, bone and so on, the most common is tuberculosis. Let's talk about the symptoms of tuberculosis in children.

Symptoms of tuberculosis in children

Due to the difference of human resistance, the size of bacterial virulence, and the difference of treatment after the discovery of tuberculosis, tuberculosis can have a variety of clinical types, and the symptoms reflected by various clinical types in patients are different, but in any case, the symptoms of tuberculosis still have common aspects in all patients.

Fever. Fever is one of the common symptoms of many diseases. Tuberculosis is no exception. But the fever of pulmonary tuberculosis still has its characteristics: 1) long term low fever, which usually appears in the afternoon and evening. The so-called low fever, that is, below 38 ℃, can return to normal temperature in the morning, and many patients can not know that they are feverish at all, and some patients can show boredom and discomfort.

The body temperature can be unstable, fever and fatigue can be felt when working, and the body temperature can not return to normal after a short rest; (3) when the disease worsens and progresses, fever is obvious, especially in the case of other bacterial infection in the lung, high fever can occur, sometimes at 39 ℃ - 40 ℃, when the body resistance is extremely low, tuberculosis may spread throughout the body, at this time, continuous shivering and high fever will occur; (4) female comrades can have fever through blood flow before and after menstruation, and when suffering from tuberculosis, fever does not immediately return to normal after menstruation is clean.

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The symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis are generally not noticed. Only in the progress of the disease before the symptoms, some people's resistance is very poor, infected with tuberculosis bacteria, virulence, then the symptoms will be very obvious. General discomfort, fever, fatigue, fatigue, upset, poor appetite, weight loss after a long time, and sometimes abnormal menstruation caused by female comrades.