Why is it important to treat tuberculosis?
The environment around us is made up of micro particles, in it we can find bacteria, viruses, among others. The bacterium that causes tuberculosis is in the air that we breathe too often and we do not know, it is said that of every 10 people at least 8 have had contact with the tuberculosis disease bacteria, it does not affect us since our body has created antibodies, that is, it is already prepared with defenses that do not allow the bacteria to attack us and make us decay.
It is believed that tuberculosis is only a disease that affects the respiratory system, that is, our lungs. But remember that it is a bacterium and can be housed anywhere, that is to say that tuberculosis can not only be pulmonary or at the level of the respiratory system, but also in any other organ of our body such as the stomach, colon, The eyes, kidneys.
✔ Muchas personas desconocen de esto ya que por lo general la tuberculosis es una enfermedad que afecta los pulmones, y no se nos ha educado sobre que la bacteria puede alojarse en cualquier otro órgano.
✔ La bacteria que produce tuberculosis se conoce como Mycobacterium Tuberculosis.
Signs and symptoms
▶ Nutritional symptoms: the person begins to lose weight very quickly even if they eat healthy, they can even lose their appetite because the cough makes it difficult to eat well.
▶ Neurological symptoms: the person suffering from the bacterium becomes very tired, quickly becomes fatigued if he performs an easy task such as getting up from a chair, climbing a couple of stairs or taking some quick steps, this being for the person very overwhelming. In addition to producing a general malaise in the individual.
▶ Symptoms at the respiratory level: the person has periods of prolonged cough, in some cases the cough is persistent and disappears for a few days, the person will believe that it was cured but after passing the days the cough will appear again and with more difficulty.
✔ Times are usually 10 to 15 days.
Sputum is that secretion that can come from both the throat, our nose or the bronchial tubes. It is that thick green saliva that spits when there is a cough with infection.
Prevention method
At the time of birth it is one of the first vaccines that we should receive, it is known as BCG. The vaccine is applied only once, that is, it is a single dose, and it is a right that all newborns have and a duty that all mothers have to apply the vaccine, as required by the epidemiological area to avoid and prevent the spread of a future tuberculosis pandemic.
Is there any way to know if I have tuberculosis?
Of course, there are several tests that let you know if the person has tuberculosis or has been in contact even if it is at some time in their life with tuberculosis bacteria.
There is a test that is performed on the person who wants to know whether or not he may have tuberculosis, his name is tuberculin skin test.
Here the medical staff will be in charge of reading the result. How? It happens that the tuberculin when injected will create a kind of small "blister" in your skin, this is measured with a kind of special rule, and when passing a certain number or not, this will be the result, whether positive or negative.
If a person becomes infected with tuberculosis and their tests point to positive, a treatment will begin, this is of paramount importance in the hospital area, since at the epidemiological level alarms are activated to be attentive of that infected person and that this strictly comply with your pharmacological treatment, so that you can not infect the other people around you and improve it as soon as possible. The treatment is divided into two phases for greater effectiveness and order: this is a nursing protocol so that the action of the antibiotic in the body can function properly.
• Phase 1 or also called as the initial phase: this is the first stage, this stage is responsible for quickly attacking the bacteria, making the patient feel better and the signs and symptoms decrease, also includes decreasing or deactivating the reproduction of the bacillus in the sputum, that is to say that it is not spread by saliva, so that in this way it is avoided to infect more people around it.
• Phase 2: here the health staff has the goal of completely eliminating the tuberculosis bacillus, this is done to KILL it completely and that it has not relapsed in the patient, that is, do not return to phase 1 for not properly fulfilling the treatment.
▶ Duration of treatment: the doctor will indicate how long the medications should be taken, but usually they are usually 6 months to 1 year, everything will depend on the severity and progress of the pathology in the affected person.
Most used antibiotics (if the bacteria does not resist): Pyrazinamide, Rifampicin, Isoniazid and Etambutol.
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