Compared with hypertension, diabetes and hyperlipidemia, tuberculosis is not so common, but it is not far from us. If you don’t pay attention to it, you may kill us by surprise:
After reading the news, people may think: Excessive weight loss will cause tuberculosis? Is tuberculosis so easy? Dr. Clove will take you to find out.
Will excessive weight loss lead to tuberculosis?
The root cause of tuberculosis is bacterial infection (Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection), and about one third of the people are infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, you and I may have been infected.
However, [being infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis] does not mean [suffering from tuberculosis]. Only a small number of infected people eventually fall ill with tuberculosis, in which the body’s immune function plays a very important role.
However, excessive weight loss will indeed lead to malnutrition and decreased resistance, and the possibility of tuberculosis will naturally increase.
In addition to losing too much weight, these people should be more careful.
The following people are prone to low immune function and should also be careful of tuberculosis:
1. Older persons
After entering old age, the functions of various organs of the human body gradually decline, and so does immunity. Once immunity drops, new infections or latent tuberculosis bacilli in the body will easily [make waves], leading to tuberculosis.
2. Diabetes
The prevalence rate of tuberculosis in diabetic patients is 2-4 times higher than that in non-diabetic patients, and the prevalence rate of tuberculosis with poor blood sugar control is 3 times higher than that in well-controlled patients. Because when blood sugar control is not ideal, the body’s immune function is inhibited and tuberculosis is more likely to be infected.
3. Infants at home
Infants are not fully developed and their own immunity is not perfect, so they are more likely to come into contact with tuberculosis bacteria from their families. After infants are infected, their illness is often more serious and even fatal tuberculosis occurs, such as tuberculous meningitis.
4. Migrant workers
In our country, the floating population is mostly young and middle-aged people. After entering the city, most of them have poor living environment, high labor intensity, poor nutritional conditions and high mental pressure, which lead to the decline of body resistance. Therefore, they are also the high incidence population of tuberculosis.
5. People living with AIDS
The immune system of people living with AIDS will be destroyed and they will be more vulnerable to tuberculosis infection.
Prevention and treatment of tuberculosis needs to start from many aspects.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is everywhere, but it must be prevented.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is everywhere, but less contact with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is still needed.
For example, wear masks when visiting tuberculosis patients; Tuberculosis patients at home should live alone in one room, and their clothes, tableware and sputum should be disinfected. The elderly and children should avoid contact with tuberculosis patients as much as possible.
The most important thing is to enhance one’s immunity.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis cannot be prevented, so it is particularly important to enhance one’s immunity:
- Maintain a healthy lifestyle, do not smoke, do not drink alcohol; Combination of work and rest, discontinuous overtime, stay up late; Balanced diet, not partial to food and not picky about food, to provide sufficient nutrition for the body; Friends suffering from diabetes should actively control their blood sugar, and those with other chronic diseases should actively control the primary disease. For newborns at home, BCG vaccine should be vaccinated in time under the guidance of doctors. Although BCG vaccine cannot completely eliminate tuberculosis infection, it can reduce the occurrence of tuberculosis. Even if infection occurs, the symptoms of the disease will be mild.
Suspected tuberculosis, should seek medical treatment in time
When you have cough and expectoration for more than 2 weeks, accompanied by symptoms such as low fever and fatigue, you must go to the hospital for tuberculosis screening and early detection and treatment.