Symptoms of Tuberculosis (TB)
For decades we have been exposed to diseases that can seriously affect our health, but have been controlled through prevention programs, such as tuberculosis. However, we need to know your symptoms to go to the doctor barely notice something strange. Therefore, in Makeufits we tell you what the symptoms of tuberculosis are.
What is tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis is a disease caused by a bacterium that is transmitted through saliva and affects the lungs and can also be installed in the bones. Tuberculosis is a chronic disease where the bacteria are in the body, making it difficult to eradicate.
What are your symptoms?
The symptoms of tuberculosis vary depending on the conditions of our immune system. For example, children and the elderly will be less able to cope with this disease, as well as people living with HIV, where bacteria multiply rapidly in your body. If your immune defenses are high, you move to a carrier state of tuberculosis, without suffering the symptoms and not infect others, but if your body can not fight, you have symptoms such as:
- Cough with phlegm for more than 15 days, which may be bloody
- Chronic weight loss
- Fatigue
- Fever
- Night sweats
- Loss of appetite
- Tuberculosis, a disease controlled
Tuberculosis was a serious illness a few decades ago, which many people died and many people were infected. Thanks to preventive measures that have been made mandatory by vaccines in children, this disease has to be controlled and reduced in incidence.
Since we know the symptoms of tuberculosis and we know that is a chronic disease that is transmitted through saliva, we must bear in mind that we must take preventive measures to prevent transmission. Thus, we must be careful not to have contact with the saliva of people with the disease may be active (avoiding drinking from the same glass or sharing eating utensils and tools), and must consume milk and not pasteurized cow's foot, as many cows have this bacteria, and we can pass if the milk has not been subjected to heat treatment.
If we prevent tuberculosis, through hygiene and appropriate vaccination, we can avoid this complex disease and it is also important to recognize quickly that something is wrong with us, so we can establish a treatment before the disease becomes chronic.
Now you know the symptoms of tuberculosis. Beware!
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