Incubation Period: Signs and Symptoms:

 2 to 10 weeks  Cough with chest pains

 Loss of weight
 Fever (night or afternoon)
How does a person get TB?  Night Sweating
A person can become infected with  Phlegm-sputum-presence of blood
 Weakness
tuberculosis bacteria when he or she inhales
minute particles of infected sputum from the air.
Diagnostic Test:
The bacteria get into the air when someone who
has a tuberculosis lung infection coughs,  Sputum Test
Tuberculosis  Chest X-ray
(Phthisis/ white plaque) sneezes, shouts, or spits (which is common in  Blood Test
some cultures).  Tuberculline test-skin test
- is an infectious disease caused by bacteria
Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can
also affect other parts of the Prevention:
body. It is spread through the air, when What happens to the body when a
people have the disease cough, sneeze or spit.  Cover the mouth with cloth when
person gets TB? coughing.
When the inhaled tuberculosis bacteria  Immunization
 Eat balance diet
enter the lungs, they can multiply and cause a  Avoid smoking
local lung infection (pneumonia). The  Avoid crowded places
local lymph nodes associated with the lungs
may also become involved with the infection and Treatment:

usually become enlarged. The hilar lymph nodes  Anti-TB medicine

(the lymph nodes adjacent to the heart in the  Ambulatory chemotherapy
central part of the chest) are often involved.  Take balanced diet while losing the
weight
 Vitamin C
 Provide a well- ventilated room
Kinds:
 Provide psychological care
Causative agent: 
 TB of spine Avoid patient to work
 TB of Skin
 Mycobacterium tuberculosis
 TB of the bone
tubercle bacilli.
 Pulmonary TB
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