JAKARTA, celebrities.id – Tuberculosis or TB is a disease caused by a complex infection Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. The disease usually affects almost all organs of the human body paru-paru.
As a parent, of course, you should know the symptoms of this disease. Because this disease can interfere with health and inhibit the growth and development of a child.
What are the symptoms of pulmonary TB that parents need to know?
Common symptoms that are often found in children with tuberculosis (TB) are:
- Cough long or more than two weeks
- Weight loss or failure to grow
- Weight loss occurs for no apparent reason or does not increase with good nutrition improvement efforts within one to two months.
- Fever old as well as lethargic, inactive
Another symptom of pulmonary TB is fever for more than two weeks and/or recurring for no apparent reason, accompanied by night sweats. Symptoms of fever are generally not high. Coughing is the body’s attempt to expel mucus, substances or particles that enter the respiratory tract so that it does not enter the lungs.
In TB, the symptoms of cough are more than two weeks and the cough is never subsided or the intensity is getting worse over time, and other causes of cough have been ruled out. Children with TB usually look lethargic and less active in playing.
Some of the differences between TB in children and TB in adults are the location of TB in children in each part of the lung, while in adults it is in the apex or upper part of the lung, in children there is enlargement of regional lymph nodes while in adults without regional lymph node enlargement. .
In children healing with calcification, while in adults with fibrosis and in children more spread through the bloodstream, while in adults rarely spread through the bloodstream.
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