After suffering from a certain disease, people often ask [can the disease break its root]?
In fact, with the current medical level, many diseases cannot be cut off. However, these diseases are also divided into severity: hypertension and diabetes, which hardly affect life as long as they are well controlled. And many advanced cancers, even doctors have no good way.
Compared with diseases that cannot be cut off, tuberculosis is much better because it can be cured. Of course, there is also a prerequisite for [curable]. If mistakes are made, it is difficult to treat.
People over the age of 50 should be careful of tuberculosis.
The fifth epidemiological survey of tuberculosis in China shows that the prevalence rate of tuberculosis shows a rapid upward trend in the age group of 55 ~ 60 years old and above, far higher than other age groups, reaching a peak in the age group of 75 ~ 80 years old.
Typical tuberculosis can include long-term cough, expectoration, low fever, fatigue and other abnormalities. However, elderly friends often have diabetes, COPD, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, etc. These diseases will cover up the symptoms of tuberculosis.
In addition, the elderly or people suffering from diabetes, coronary heart disease, tumors and other diseases are more likely to be infected with tuberculosis due to poor immune function.
Tuberculosis can be cured or difficult to treat.
In the 19th century, tuberculosis was called the “white plague”, which shows that tuberculosis was a particularly horrible disease at that time.
However, with the development of anti-tuberculosis drugs such as rifampicin, isoniazid and streptomycin, the cure rate of tuberculosis has been greatly improved.
According to statistics, as of 2011, nearly 5 million patients had been successfully cured. About 5.6 million patients have recovered since 1995, while 22 million deaths have been avoided.
The vast majority of tuberculosis patients can be cured through regular treatment for about half a year. However, there are still some tuberculosis patients, because tuberculosis bacilli produce drug resistance, which increases the treatment cost by tens of hundreds of times, increases the treatment time to two years, and even finally cannot be cured.
If you want to cure tuberculosis, you cannot make these three mistakes.
As mentioned earlier, the main reason for the decline in cure rate and the increase in treatment time and cost is the drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. However, drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis has an important relationship with the patient’s personal behavior. The following three mistakes must not be made.
Error 1: Not seeing a doctor in time,
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease. After finding physical abnormalities, one should go to the hospital in time.
If you delay all the time, you may spread the disease to your family. At the same time, the body’s resistance will gradually weaken, and the damage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the lungs will be further aggravated, which will be difficult to recover even after treatment.
Therefore, when coughing and expectorating for more than 2 weeks, accompanied by symptoms of low fever and fatigue, we must go to the hospital for tuberculosis screening in time.
Error 2: Irregular medication
After the diagnosis of tuberculosis, anti-tuberculosis treatment needs to be started. The general treatment period is 6-8 months. This stage is the key period for cure and the generation of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.
During this period, we must pay attention to adhere to the whole process of medication, can’t interrupt, can’t reduce the amount of medicine without permission, can’t stop taking medicine because of cough improvement, also can’t change medicine without permission because of some side effects brought by drugs. If you suspect side effects, you should reflect your situation to the medical staff in time.
Error 3: Life Does Not Pay Attention to
Tuberculosis is a consumptive disease. During treatment, we must pay more attention to nutrition and adequate intake of milk, fish and bean products. At the same time, we must ensure adequate sleep, do not do heavy work and exercise moderately.
A good living condition can improve one’s own resistance and is more conducive to the recovery of diseases.