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What is tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis is a serious chronic respiratory infection on the mainland, and everyone can be infected.
The culprit that causes tuberculosis is a bacterium called tuberculosis bacillus, which is highly contagious and pathogenic.
How does tuberculosis spread?
1. Tuberculosis is a respiratory infectious disease that is prone to transmission.
2. Tuberculosis bacteria spread into the air through coughing, sputum production and sneezing in tuberculosis people, and healthy people may become infected by inhaling droplets with tuberculosis bacteria.
3. People who live with tuberculosis people, work and study in the same room are close contacts of tuberculosis people, and may be infected with tuberculosis bacteria, and should go to the hospital in time to check and eliminate.
4. People with HIV infection, people with weakened immunity, diabetic patients, pneumoconiosis patients, the elderly, etc. are all people who are prone to disease, and tuberculosis examinations should be carried out regularly every year.
What are the symptoms of tuberculosis?
Coughing, coughing up sputum for more than 2 weeks, and the appearance of hemoptysis or blood capillaries in the sputum are the main symptoms of tuberculosis. In addition, chest tightness, chest pain, low-grade fever in the afternoon, night sweats, general weakness, loss of appetite or weight loss are also common symptoms of tuberculosis.
How to prevent tuberculosis?
When people with tuberculosis cough and sneeze, they should avoid others and cover their mouth and nose.
Tuberculosis patients should not spit on the ground, spit sputum in a covered spittoon with disinfectant solution, and spit sputum in a disinfectant wet paper towel or sealed sputum bag when it is inconvenient.
Tuberculosis patients try not to go to crowded public places, and if they must, they should wear masks.
Tuberculosis patients treated at home should try to live in separate rooms with others, keep the room ventilated, wear masks, and avoid family members from being infected.
Tuberculosis is preventable and treatable. Strengthen nutrition, improve the body's resistance, help prevent tuberculosis.
Standardize the whole process of treatment of tuberculosis
1. The whole process of tuberculosis treatment is 6-8 months, and the whole process of drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment is 18-24 months.
2. According to the doctor's requirements of standardized treatment, the vast majority of tuberculosis people can be cured. Restore your health on your own while protecting your family.
3. If people with tuberculosis are not treated in a standardized manner, they are prone to drug-resistant tuberculosis. Once the patient is resistant, the cure rate is low, the treatment cost is high, and the social harm is great.