The seven questions about tuberculosis How much do you know?

March 24, 2016, when

Source: People's Daily online - health channel

People in Beijing on March 24 (Reuters) tuberculosis is a chronic respiratory infectious diseases that endanger human body health badly. Today is a world tuberculosis day 21. Chinese center for disease control and prevention of tuberculosis answer common knowledge.

What is tuberculosis?

Tuberculosis, commonly known as consumption is caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis invades human lung respiratory infectious diseases. Patients with pulmonary tuberculosis mainly through coughing, sneezing or speak loudly out when they are transmitted to others. If not timely, thorough treatment after suffering from tuberculosis, can cause serious threat to their health, but also can infect others.

What are the symptoms of tuberculosis?

Tuberculosis is the main symptom of cough, cough up phlegm more than 2 weeks in a row, or sputum with blood. At the same time, also may be accompanied by chest pain, night sweats, low thermal afternoon, whole body fatigue, anorexia and other common symptoms.

Suspected tuberculosis should be how to do?

Suspected suffering from tuberculosis, should the county (district) level and prevent institutions for inspection and treatment. Various counties (districts) of our country have tuberculosis (TB) prevention and control institutions, specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and management of pulmonary tuberculosis. Suspected of tuberculosis, should be timely to these institutions examination and treatment. Early detection, early diagnosis, early treatment is the key of TB can be cured.

What are the policy of free prevention and treatment of tuberculosis in China?

In the county (district) level and check and treatment of tuberculosis prevention mechanism, can enjoy the free state policy. County (district) level of tuberculosis prevention and control institutions for the first time of tuberculosis suspicious symptoms free sputum smear examination and X-ray chest radiography examination, anti-tb drugs, treatment for active tuberculosis patients during the sputum smear examination and X-ray chest radiography inspection after the treatment.

TB can be cured?

As long as adhere to the regular treatment, the vast majority of tuberculosis patients can be cured. New infectious tuberculosis thoroughly cure time take medicine generally 6 ~ 8 months, and not missing and stopping medication. If medication discontinuation or intermittent, not only easy to relapse, and drug resistance may be produced. Drug-resistant tuberculosis patients after the treatment of the complex technology, treatment time is longer (18 ~ 24 months), the treatment cost more (about right and wrong drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment costs about 100 times).

How should we treat tuberculosis patients?

Tuberculosis patients began to standard treatment of 2 ~ 3 weeks, will greatly reduce infectious, most patients can be at home for treatment and rehabilitation. Care and do not discriminate against TB can contribute to the prevention and control of TB is conducive to social harmony and stability. The whole society should be concerned about and help patients with tuberculosis, jointly create no discrimination of social environment.

How to prevent tuberculosis?

The main measures to prevent TB transmission is to find and cure infectious tuberculosis patients in a timely manner. If found to have cough, cough up phlegm for more than two weeks, should mobilize him immediately to check TB control professional organizations, and regular treatment according to the requirements of doctors; Personnel of close contact with tuberculosis patient related inspection; For people already affected n/med tuberculosis bacterium, should be under the guidance of a doctor to take medicine, prevent the happening of the tuberculosis (TB); To do a good job of ventilation and sanitation densely populated place, exercise, enhanced physique, develop good health habits; For newborns vaccinated BCG vaccine and the BCG vaccine mainly in childhood tuberculous meningitis, millet tuberculosis has good prevention role.

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Over the past 20 years, our country continuously strengthen the diagnosis, treatment and management of tuberculosis patients, increase the TB funding to the prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) fell by half, mortality was reduced by 80%, five years ahead of the United Nations development goals in one thousand tuberculosis is implemented.

However, the current our country to tuberculosis prevention and control of public consciousness is not strong, frequent social floating population and part of the TB patients has not been found, diagnosis, treatment, and a few patients didn't finish the comprehensive treatment for a variety of reasons, and cause disease cannot heal, increased the risk of becoming drug-resistant TB in refractory, make the treatment duration extended to 18 to 24 months, spent decades to one hundred times more than ordinary TB, and may delay the more at the same time, complications, such as multiple organ failure is more serious consequences.

In the prevention and control of the 2016 world TB day approaching, state health and family planning commission "social work together to eliminate TB harm" such a propaganda theme, hope that the whole society joint efforts, the medical and health institutions at all levels to perform the relevant duties; Mobilize social forces from all walks of life at the same time, as much as possible to find more TB patients, and let every TB patients can receive timely diagnosis and treatment, were cured, so as to achieve control of tuberculosis epidemic, the ultimate goal of eliminating TB harm to the public. (Wang Yupeng comprehensive since China CDC website)