Is tuberculous peritonitis serious

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Many people may not know much about the disease of tuberculous peritonitis, and even some people may not have heard of this disease, so we still need to have some basic understanding of this disease. Let's talk about the seriousness of tuberculous peritonitis.

Is tuberculous peritonitis serious

First: tuberculous peritonitis is a chronic, diffuse inflammation of the peritoneum caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The infection route of the disease can be directly spread by intraperitoneal tuberculosis or hematogenous dissemination. The former is more common, such as intestinal tuberculosis, mesenteric lymph node tuberculosis, tubal tuberculosis, etc., can be the direct primary focus of the disease. Most of them are young and middle-aged, and women are slightly more than men.

Second: common symptoms include fatigue, fever, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, chills, high fever, sudden abdominal mass, etc. tuberculosis belongs to actinomycetes, mycobacteria of mycobacteriaceae, is a pathogenic acid resistant bacteria, mainly divided into human, cattle, birds, mice and other types. The main pathogenic bacteria to human are human type bacteria, and bovine type bacteria are rarely infected.

Third: fever and night sweats are the most common manifestations of the whole body. Most of the fever types are low fever and moderate fever, and some patients are flaccid fever. Exudative type, caseous type cases or patients with severe extraabdominal tuberculosis may present with persistent fever, severe night sweats, and severe malnutrition such as anemia, emaciation, edema, angular stomatitis and vitamin A deficiency. Among women of childbearing age, menopause and infertility are more common.

matters needing attention

Therefore, once there are symptoms similar to tuberculous peritonitis, in their own uncertain circumstances, timely to the hospital for examination, let the doctor to judge this situation, and then according to the specific situation to make the corresponding judgment, to suit the remedy to the case.