Wednesday, 20 June 2012

TUEBRCULOSIS SYMPTOMS

  TUBERCULOSIS SYMPTOMS

                         Tuberculosis is an infectious disease .the disease  spreads one person to another by droplet infection .Generally tuberculosis disease symptoms off illness are  may not notice  until the disease is quite advanced. Even then the symptoms are--

              Cough and expectoration for more than 15 days

              Weakness and constant fatigue

              Weight Loss

              Fever

              Night sweats

              Chest pain

              Coughing up blood

              Loss of appetite

                 tuberculosis disease has two stages .they are ,latent and active infection.                     tuberculosis  symptoms are occur  different in three stages

LATENT INFECTION

                           In the most of the people who effected tuberculosis bacteria( tuberculosis bacillus) become infected .they have no symptoms but the patient body is unable to fight with the bacteria so it will become weak.in this stage TB can not spread one person to another and not growing because the bacteria alive in inactive stage .

ACTIVE INFECTION               

                          In this type of infection tuberculosis bacteria strats growing and become active .the immune system cannot stop growing of bacteria then the TB patient body automatically become weak and speads one to each other by droplet infection,and othe different ways.hiv suffering patients are more effected TB because they have weak immune system.in the active infection of tuberculosis different symtoms are occur they are -
  • substance abuse
  •  diabetes mellitus
  •  silicosis
  •  cancer of the head or neck
  •  leukemia or Hodgkin's disease
  •  severe kidney disease
  •  low body weight
  •  certain medical treatments (such as corticosteroid treatment or organ transplants)
  •  specialized treatment for rheumatoid arthritis or Crohn's disease

                           

               

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