What symptom does bone tuberculosis have

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Now there are more and more kinds of diseases, many of which are rarely heard, such as bone tuberculosis. What are the symptoms of such diseases? Now let's share the relevant knowledge about the symptoms of bone tuberculosis.

What symptom does bone tuberculosis have

Symptoms 1. Patients with bone tuberculosis usually have local swelling, obvious pain, periosteal new bone formation, thickening of bone cortex, enlargement of bone marrow cavity, spindle shaped swelling of the backbone. The onset of tuberculosis of bone and joint is slow, and the symptoms of the whole body are hidden. The patients may have low fever, fatigue, night sweats, loss of appetite and emaciation. In addition to the above symptoms, only a few cases presented acute attack, high fever about 39 degrees, easy to be confused with other acute infections.

The second symptom is that the patients with bone tuberculosis usually have joint dysfunction earlier than the patients with pain. In order to relieve the pain of the affected part, each joint is often forced to be in a special position, such as the shoulder joint drooping position and the elbow joint half flexing position. Hip flexion, ankle foot drop. Tuberculosis of cervical vertebra is commonly used to support the mandible with both hands, and the muscle protective spasm of tuberculosis of thoracic vertebra or lumbar vertebra makes it difficult to bend down and squat carefully.

Symptoms three, bone tuberculosis limbs joint tuberculosis prone to local swelling, skin color is usually normal, local slight heat. Joint swelling gradually increased, limb muscle atrophy, the sick joints were fusiform. With the development of the disease, paravertebral abscess increases and moves to the body surface along the muscle space. Cold abscess can appear in the neck, back, lumbar triangle, iliac fossa and leg root.

matters needing attention

Bone tuberculosis patients will appear loss of appetite, so in the diet to pay special attention to, food to diversify can improve appetite. We should eat less phlegm food and more light food. Because bone tuberculosis is a kind of consumptive disease, we should pay attention to full rest and appropriate outdoor activities while using medicine and diet.