Is tuberculosis serious? Can you kill people?

summary

Tuberculosis is a kind of pulmonary infectious disease, which is a serious threat to human health. It is usually transmitted through respiratory tract infection. People with tuberculosis talk loudly, cough, spit and other bacteria float in the air and get infected by breathing. Through the digestive tract, skin, reproductive system infection is very rare. It is not necessary for healthy people to get sick after infection, but it will lead to the occurrence of disease when their immunity is reduced. In addition, people with diabetes, organ transplantation and other patients are more likely to be infected. There are many deaths in the world every year, and the death rate of tuberculosis in China is very high.

Is tuberculosis serious? Can you kill people?

1. For primary tuberculosis, most patients have no obvious symptoms at the initial stage of the disease. Sometimes there will be fever and loss of appetite; Or some patients will have fever for two to three weeks, night sweats, weakness, weight loss, etc; The baby has a fever and the temperature may reach 40 degrees.

2. Secondary pulmonary tuberculosis has no manifestation in the early stage. After the gradual deepening of the disease, patients will feel energy loss, loss of appetite, emaciation, night sweats and other tuberculosis poisoning phenomenon, and these diseases are often relatively mild, easy to be ignored by patients. After the deterioration of the disease, fever, spitting, hemoptysis, etc.

3. Most of the patients with hematogenous disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis have acute onset, high fever, and some patients have regular or irregular fever. They have attacks for several weeks or months. Most of the patients have symptoms of mental depression, weakness and weakness; A small number of patients will also have poor appetite, diarrhea, constipation, nausea, shyness and other symptoms.

matters needing attention

The treatment of tuberculosis is becoming more and more difficult. BCG vaccination can be carried out to improve human immunity, especially for children. Strengthen sports, correct their own rules of life.