WHat are the signs of having tuberculosis?
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Usually coughing and respiratory distress
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Heavy cough with fever. restlessness and Phlegm coming out when u cough. Loss of weight .
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Signs and symptoms of tuberculosis "Although your body may harbor the TB bacteria, your immune system often can prevent you from becoming sick. For that reason, doctors make a distinction between: * TB infection. This condition, sometimes called latent TB, causes no symptoms and isn't contagious. * Active TB. This condition makes you sick and can spread to others. However, the infection may be asymptomatic for years, even though it's active and causing damage. Your immune system begins to attack TB bacteria two to eight weeks after you're infected. Sometimes the bacteria die, and the infection clears completely. In other cases, the bacteria remain in your body in an inactive state and cause no tuberculosis symptoms. In still other cases, you may develop active TB. TB mainly affects your lungs (pulmonary tuberculosis), and coughing is often the only indication of infection initially. Signs and symptoms of active pulmonary TB include: * A cough lasting three or more weeks that may produce discolored or bloody sputum * Unintended weight loss * Fatigue * Slight fever * Night sweats * Chills * Loss of appetite * Pain with breathing or coughing (pleurisy) Tuberculosis also can target almost any part of your body, including your joints, bones, urinary tract, central nervous system, muscles, bone marrow and lymphatic system. When TB occurs outside your lungs, signs and symptoms vary, depending on the organs involved. For example, tuberculosis of the spine may result in back pain, and tuberculosis that affects your kidneys might cause blood in your urine. Tuberculosis can also spread through your entire body, simultaneously attacking many organ systems."
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Hi, These include fatigue, not feeling well, tiring easily, loss of appetite and loss of weight. Soon fever appears and there may be a cough that may be dry or produce phlegm, which later may become bloody. If the disease affects lymph glands, usually a swelling appears in the neck that continues to grow and later new swellings appear. Any ulcer that refuses to go away and oozes fluid may be due to tuberculosis. If other internal organs are affected by the disease then the symptoms relate to that organ. In tuberculosis of the brain (tuberculosis meningitis), there may be loss of consciousness and fits. The initial tests will include a blood test (including an ‘ESR’) and a chest x-ray. If there is phlegm production this can be tested to identify the tuberculosis bacteria. A skin test called tuberculin, which detects any past or present infection, or a Mantoux test may be done, but the interpretation of this test may be difficult in areas where the disease is rampant. If the lymph glands are enlarged then cells can be aspirated from it using a fine needle (fine needle aspiration cytology, FNAC) to confirm the diagnosis. Sometimes the gland may require a biopsy. In cases where tuberculosis of the brain is suspected, fluid may be aspirated from the spine and tested (lumbar puncture
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