Symptoms of primary tuberculosis infection

"Lao primary infection" (also known as primary TB or TB beginning): the entire expression and change of body after body was first exposed to TB. Tuberculosis is a disease the primary infection in children, especially children 1-5 years old, very rare disease in adults.

 

BCG vaccine (TB vaccine): to help children reduce the risk of tuberculosis, especially to tuberculosis as TB meningitis, TB vaccine rather then will not have TB.

  Symptoms of primary tuberculosis infection?

Often unclear, no frantic expression.

- Systemic symptoms: loss of appetite, weight loss or slow weight gain, sweating sleep even when it's cold, fever, prolonged or recurrent fever.

- The common respiratory symptoms: coughing, recurrent cough, wheezing, shortness of breath. These symptoms are caused by swelling of the lymph nodes in the chest, causing compression in the chest. These symptoms can make children diagnosed initially confused with other respiratory diseases.

- Other less common symptoms: ENL skin, blisters conjunctivitis in the eyes, persistent diarrhea, swollen lymph nodes in the abdomen, skin ulcers in ...

- Lao primary infection can cause serious complications such as tuberculosis, atelectasis, bronchiectasis, or the more severe forms of TB such as TB meningitis, peritoneal tuberculosis, bone tuberculosis, renal tuberculosis ...

  The symptoms of children with suspected tuberculosis infection Profile

Children with the following symptoms: fever and prolonged periods of recurrent fever, growth retardation, weight loss, sweats, coughing, wheezing prolonged; or children diagnosed with asthma or bronchitis but continuous treatment that has not seen before, or have a cough-cough time and then re back. Especially accompanied by family members who are sick with tuberculosis is very likely that children with primary tuberculosis infection. At this point, she needs to be brought to the clinic for TB and respiratory diseases to be screened.