Why is tuberculosis also called tuberculosis What is tuberculosis called?

It was because there was no medicine for tuberculosis at that time, and it could not be cured for a long time. I don't have the strength to work!

Tuberculosis, also known as tuberculosis, is a chronic infectious disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis that can occur anywhere in the body except hair, nails, and teeth, most commonly in the lungs, and is called tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis is a very serious and very painful disease. Nowadays, there are not many people infected with tuberculosis, basically speaking, tuberculosis has disappeared in modern people, which is an important sign of the improvement of China's medical level. Although tuberculosis has basically disappeared, there are still a lot of patients, so it is very important to understand the symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis, detect it in time, and find it in time.

1) Systemic symptoms appear earlier than local symptoms, and are very mild in the early stage and do not attract attention. Severe exudative lesions, such as caseating pneumonia or acute miliary tuberculosis, are very symptomatic because of their strong and widespread inflammatory response. Systemic symptoms are:

1. General malaise, fatigue, fatigue, inability to adhere to daily work, easy irritability, palpitations, loss of appetite, weight loss, abnormal menstruation in women and other symptoms of mild toxicity and autonomic disorders.

2. Fever is often one of the early symptoms of tuberculosis, and the changes in body temperature can be as follows: (1) The body temperature is unstable, and the fever is caused by slight physical labor, and it often cannot return to normal after 30 minutes of rest. (2) Long-term slight fever, mostly in the afternoon and evening, and the next morning drops to normal, accompanied by fatigue and discomfort (3) When the lesion progresses and spreads rapidly, the fever is more significant, and chills may appear, and the fever reaches 39-40 degrees Celsius.

4) The body temperature of female patients rises before menstruation, and the body temperature does not return to normal after menstruation.

3. Night sweats. It mostly occurs in severe patients, who sweat all over the body when falling asleep or waking up, and in severe cases, their clothes are wet and accompanied by a sense of exhaustion.

2) Local symptoms: Local symptoms are mainly caused by damage to lung lesions.

1. Cough and phlegm. Early cough is mild with no sputum or a small amount of mucus sputum. When the lesion is enlarged and cavities are formed, the sputum is purulent and large.

If bronchial tuberculosis is complicated, cough is worsened; If bronchial stenosis is present, there is localized wheezing. When bronchial lymph node tuberculosis compresses the bronchial tubes, it can cause choking or stridor.

2. Hemoptysis. About 1 3-1 2 patients have hemoptysis. The amount of hemoptysis varies, and the inflammation of the lesion increases capillary permeability, which can cause blood substitution or blood pinching in sputum.

Moderate hemoptysis may occur with small vessel injury, and large aneurysms rupture on the cavity wall can cause massive hemoptysis. Massive haemorrhage is often followed by fever, and a few days of low-grade fever is caused by absorption of blood in the small bronchi; Hyperthermia is a manifestation of disseminated lesions.

Tuberculosis is called the smartest infectious disease because it has the following characteristics:

1.Insidious: Tuberculosis bacteria are insidious, that is, the pathogenic bacteria have a long incubation period in the body, and patients are not easy to find in the early stage of the disease.

2.Chronic: Tuberculosis tends to form lesions in the patient's body that are difficult to remove, so it is difficult to completely **.

3.Contagious: Tuberculosis is very contagious, and patients will spew out large amounts of saliva containing germs during the onset of the disease, which will contaminate the surrounding environment.

In addition, patients may also spread the germs through frequent droplets due to poor personal hygiene or poor oral hygiene. This makes it easy for patients to spread the germs to others by breathing, eating, etc.

Because tuberculosis has the above characteristics, it is difficult to ** it in a short period of time. For the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, more in-depth research and exploration are needed to better understand and curb the spread of the disease.