What kind of disease is tuberculosis? Tuberculosis involves a wide range, which can occur in any part of the human body. For tuberculosis, we should learn more about it, so that when you encounter it, you will not be so afraid. So what are the symptoms and precursors of tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease, but also a systemic disease, all organs of the human body can suffer from tuberculosis. But in the human body, the organs with more tuberculosis include lung, kidney, liver, stomach, brain, intestine, bladder, skin, testicle, bone, etc. The most common is pulmonary tuberculosis. Due to differences in human resistance, bacterial virulence, and differences in treatment after discovering tuberculosis, tuberculosis can have multiple clinical types, and the symptoms reflected by each clinical type in patients are different. However, regardless, the symptoms of tuberculosis still have common aspects in all patients. Below, we will focus on discussing the common symptoms that occur after lung infection with tuberculosis.
Overall, tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease with systemic symptoms. At the beginning, due to mild symptoms, the patient felt no discomfort and generally did not pay attention. Symptoms only appear when the condition progresses. Some people have poor resistance and are infected with a large number of highly virulent tuberculosis bacteria, which can cause very obvious symptoms. General discomfort, fever, fatigue, easy fatigue, restlessness, poor appetite, weight loss over time, and sometimes menstrual irregularities in lesbian women. In addition, the following two major symptoms may also occur.
1. Fever. Fever is one of the common symptoms that can occur in many diseases. Tuberculosis is no exception. But the fever of tuberculosis has its own characteristics. If there is a long-term low-grade fever, it usually occurs in the afternoon and evening, and the so-called low-grade fever is below 38 ℃; Body temperature can be unstable, and one may feel feverish and fatigued while working. Taking a short break may not restore normal body temperature; When the condition worsens and progresses, fever is obvious, especially in the case of other bacterial infections in the lungs, which can occur with high fever, sometimes between 39 ℃ and 40 ℃.
2. Sweating profusely. The so-called night sweats refer to the patient sweating all over their body while falling asleep or waking up, usually occurring in physically weak children (sometimes normal children may also have this phenomenon). Patients with severe lung lesions tend to experience more night sweats, and in severe cases, their clothes and blankets can become soaked. Additionally, patients may feel exhausted and weak.
The symptoms and precursors of tuberculosis are quite obvious. When you feel these signs appear, you should seek active treatment as soon as possible.
