Tuberculosis is becoming a more common disease from which nobody is insured.
Previously it was thought that tuberculosis is a disease of people from dysfunctional families, prison inmates, drug addicts and so on. But now the disease has so wide a circle of potential patients, which in some regions of Ukraine even exceeded the epidemic threshold. At the same time, becoming infected with the tubercle Bacillus and quite financially secure and even very rich people.
Signs of tuberculosis are easily confused with other respiratory diseases, so doctors recommend every year to do x-rays and the appearance of the following symptoms at least consult with a therapist:
– weakness, fatigue, apathy;
– lack of appetite and sudden weight loss;
– increased perspiration;
– bouts of heart palpitations, recurring periodically;
– slight increase in body temperature, usually observed at night;
– regular headaches;
– shortness of breath;
– dry cough, gradually turning into a productive form with sputum;
– enlarged lymph nodes;
– severe pain when coughing, but it is a symptom of the progressive tuberculosis.
If a person observed the above symptoms, then you can put off going to the TB makes no sense, otherwise he risks to get a severe form of tuberculosis, to cure which will not be so easy as at the initial stage.
Correct ways of prevention of tuberculosis doctors call avoiding contact with people who are much cough, washing your hands after visiting public places, wearing respiratory masks in places where accumulates a large number of people, a thorough treatment of food, brought home from the street and so on.
It is very important for adults every year to do x-rays, even though it was not useful radiation, but in any case it is better to do the x-ray of his lungs and time to identify these or other violations, than then long to be treated from tuberculosis or other diseases of the respiratory organs, including lung cancer. Children 1-2 times a year are vaccinated Mantoux, in order to detect the presence of Koch’s Bacillus in the blood, so they do not need to do x-rays until a certain age, and in adults there is no other way.
Every year the number of tuberculosis infected people is growing, so we are all in danger.
