Thursday, October 22, 2009

symptoms of tuberculosis

2009-6-12 18:54 【Big Middle Small】
(A) systemic symptoms

Than the local symptoms of early, early is very mild, non-attention. Severe exudative lesions, such as the cheese-like pneumonia or acute miliary tuberculosis, because of their inflammatory response stronger, broader, poisoning symptoms are very noticeable. Systemic symptoms include:

1, general malaise, fatigue, weakness, could not insist on their daily work, easy irritability, palpitations, loss of appetite, weight loss, menstrual irregularities of women with mild symptoms of toxicity and autonomic disorders.

2, fever is often the early symptoms of tuberculosis, one of the changes in body temperature can have the following: (1) temperature instability, a slight manual that causes fever, after a 30-minute rest, are often not returned to normal. Medical Education | Education Network has collected more than (2) long-term fever, common in the afternoon and evening, the next morning down to normal, accompanied by fatigue discomfort (3) the rapid progress and spread of lesions, fever, more significantly, there may be aversion to cold, fever, to reach 39-40 degrees Celsius. (4) Female patients had elevated body temperature before menstruation, extended menstruation after the body temperature is not back to normal.

3, night sweats. Mostly occurs in critically ill patients, in falling asleep or awake when the body sweating, severe wet clothes to do, along with a sense of failure.

(B) local symptom

Local symptoms caused by damage due to pulmonary lesions.

1, cough, sputum. Early mild cough, no sputum or a small amount of mucus phlegm. Lesion expanded, with cavity formation, then the sputum was purulent and quantity more. If the concurrent bronchial cough, tuberculosis is increasing; if bronchial stenosis, there are limitations wheezing. Bronchial bronchial lymphatic system of oppression, it can cause choking or wheezing.

2, hemoptysis. About 1/3-1/2 of the patients had hemoptysis. The amount of hemoptysis ranged from inflammatory lesions to increased capillary permeability, which can cause blood or have blood on behalf of the sputum. Damage the small blood vessels may have a moderate amount of hemoptysis, empty walls of large aneurysms rupture, can cause a large number of hemoptysis. Coughed up blood after a large number of often accompanied by fever, low heat a few days within the small bronchi caused by the absorption of the blood; high fever is spread lesion performance.
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