It is believed that everyone will not be too familiar with the disease of tuberculosis. Due to a series of reasons, such as air pollution and the working environment of some special working groups, some people have suffered from tuberculosis. Is tuberculosis infectious?
Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis bacteria may invade various organs of the body, but mainly invade the lungs, which is called pulmonary tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is contagious. There are mainly the following ways of transmission.
1. Respiratory infection
Inhaling droplets or dust carrying bacteria can cause infection and result in primary lung lesions.
2. Digestive tract infection
Most cases of illness occur in the throat or intestines due to drinking milk contaminated with bovine tuberculosis bacteria that has not been disinfected or disinfected properly, or other foods contaminated with human tuberculosis bacteria.
3. Other infectious diseases
I can transmit it through contact with damaged skin, mucous membranes, reproductive organs, etc. There is also congenital tuberculosis infection via placenta or amniotic fluid inhalation, more than miliary tuberculosis or genital tuberculosis shortly after birth. Human beings are generally susceptible. Whether a person develops symptoms after being infected is related to the quantity, virulence, non-specific and specific resistance of the infected bacteria.
Therefore, if adults have tuberculosis, they need to pay attention to the protection of life details to avoid transmission to the baby. In daily life, both adults and babies need to strengthen their physical exercise in order to better resist the invasion of various viruses.
