Tuberculosis of the lung: symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
Tuberculosis of the lung: symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
Tuberculosis of the lungs is a disease,spreading by airborne droplets. Mycobacteria penetrate the respiratory tract. The patient becomes dangerous to others. Physicians are especially concerned about asymptomatic forms of tuberculosis, when the disease is detected by accident during fluorography or Mantoux test.
Tuberculosis of the lung: symptoms and diagnosis
At the initial stages of infection, the patient may evennot to suspect that it is a carrier of a dangerous infection. The clinical symptoms of tuberculosis are completely absent or manifest only slightly. Prolonged coughing, coughing, fever to subfebrile, weight loss, fatigue, general weakness, malaise, sweating, decreased appetite, shortness of breath - these symptoms should alert and force to see a doctor.
Diagnosis of tuberculosis consists in carrying outFluorographic examination of the lungs. Children make a Mantoux test. When suspected of lung damage, mycobacteria are prescribed bacterioscopy with a sputum examination, a blood test, a lung X-ray. Displacement of the leukocyte formula, an increase in ESR, give reason to suspect pulmonary tuberculosis. But the final diagnosis of tuberculosis is based on additional tests: bronchoscopy, computed tomography, biopsy.
Treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis
If a suspected tuberculosis is primarythe examination should be conducted in a hospital. The patient must be quickly isolated from society to prevent the spread of infection. When the diagnosis is made, the patient is prescribed etiotropic chemotherapy, therapeutic nutrition, physiotherapy, physical therapy.
Drugs should only be takenon the recommendation and under the supervision of a doctor. Incorrectly chosen doses threaten the fact that tuberculosis will pass into a chronic form. A patient with tuberculosis should remember that untimely treatment of an active form of tuberculosis is fatal.
