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Please describe the physical appearance of patients with tuberculosis


Please describe the physical appearance of patients with tuberculosis.?

Respiratory Diseases - 3 Answers
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1 :
GO TO THE DOCTOR. if you have TB you are putting EVERYONE at risk you come in contact with. fever, night sweats, swollen lymph nodes, weight loss, coughing up blood, pallor in color.
2 :
thin. loosing weight. coughing. sick feeling on face
3 :
TB is well known to present with vague signs and symptoms. They may look ill, tired and thin in general, with or without an occasional cough. They may sometimes have palpable painless lymph nodes. Otherwise the physical appearance are not very significant. For symptoms, pulmonary TB is commonly (but not always) with chronic cough, sputum (may be blood stained), low grade fever, general unwell, night sweat. Some patients have TB in other parts of the body and thus present with according symptoms, e.g. back pain in TB spine



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