All you need to know about TB and how to prevent it

Tuberculosis or tuberculosis, a contagious disease caused by a microbe of tuberculosis, often affects the lungs and is called tuberculosis. It can infect other parts of the body, such as lymph nodes, bones and urinary tract, and called an external lung.

Dr. Issam Al-Maghazi, president of the Anti-Tobacco and Anti-Tuberculosis Society, said tuberculosis was a serious health problem in Egypt and around the world. Injury in the age group of 15 to 44 years, and thus affect the national economy.

If the patient spits on the floor and the spit is spilled, the volatile dust caused by euphoria or air currents carries the microbe and inhales the healthy person, as well as if the unpasteurized milk or not sweet is loaded with microbes of tuberculosis.

He added that tuberculosis was not considered a disease that was easily transmitted because the infection usually occurred through a close mixture with the patient. Tuberculosis lasted at least 8 hours and congestion at home and in the workplace is a major factor of infection.

He pointed out that most people infected with TB do not transmit the disease and do not become sick because their immune system traps the germs of TB, but only 5 to 10% of those infected are infected with TB. Immune weakened them, pointing out that there are no symptoms of tuberculosis. Symptoms of the diagnosis include general weakness, loss of appetite, underweight, high fever and night sweats, as well as a severe cough lasting more than two weeks. They may be dry or accompanied by phlegm or drug addicts, as well as a definitive diagnosis of tuberculosis by examining the spit.

He explained that tuberculosis is being cured, since effective drugs are available for treatment, but that treatment should be taken regularly with the correct dose and continuously for the prescribed period according to the prescribed treatment regimen. .

And the detection of prevention methods by the discovery and treatment of tuberculous sputum positive because it is the source of the infection, and the early detection of medical treatment when the cough lasts more than two weeks, the early vaccination of the new- born by the BCG and the detection of contact with the patient tuberculosis, spitting on the floor or sneezing in the face of others, and well ventilated and sunny health centers help kill the microbe of tuberculosis.