Lung Spots disease – symptoms, examination, and Handling

Lung spots or called with pulmonary tuberculosis in health terms is one of the problems the infection is found in our country. Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis germ that invades the human lung tissue. Disease tuberculosis can be transmitted easily if Infected sufferers often coughs in front of you without closing their mouths. The rapid spread of this was the reason why the World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization put this disease as one of the emergency problems in the world.

Our country Indonesia itself still occupied the third place for the number of cases of pulmonary TB disease in the world after India and China. See this condition for lowering the number of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and increasing numbers is healing we need to know a whole bunch of information about the disease. In this article we present a host of information about signs and symptoms, supporting examination and therapy of lung spots briefly!

A variety of information about the disease of lung Spots (Pulmonary Tuberculosis)
Lung spots disease can strike anyone and still become a scourge for the world of our country's health, but not to worry because the disease pulmonary tuberculosis is one of infectious diseases that could be cured by the treatment regularly. Transmission can also be prevented if patients know how to not transmit the disease. For more details let us refer to a number of the following information about the disease of lung spots!

Signs and symptoms of lung Spots
The first information that we share is about the signs and symptoms of this chronic disease, the importance of knowing the signs and symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis patients can make quick undiagnosed and can get therapy ASAP.

1. old Cough

And quite often the first symptoms complained of by sufferers of lung spots is a long coughing (cough-cough for 3 weeks or more). Many diseases that are associated with the lungs have symptoms in the form of coughs, for example such as lung cancer, Lung wet, and also lung spots. Cough symptoms experienced by the patients lung spots are caused by irritation of the bronchial (one of the branches of the trachea that traversed the air to and from the lungs of humans).

Symptoms of cough on pulmonary Fleck this may not happen if the ailment has not irritate the bronchial. Cough symptoms experienced by sufferers of tuberculosis cough phlegm so this can be a regular or a bloody cough if condition is already severe, but keep in mind that not all bloody coughs caused by pulmonary tuberculosis infection so you still need to checks in order to verify it.

2. Shortness of breath

The next symptom of lung flecks which often complained of by the sufferer is shortness of breath, where a complaint indicates the progression of the disease has already spread virtually throughout the lungs and interfere with the function of the lungs to breathe. Besides shortness of breath could be a sign that there is inflammation of the lung membrane wrapping called the pleura.

Inflammation of the pleura by bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis occur quite often and is included in the extra pulmonary symptoms (symptoms outside of the lungs) on tuberculosis. If pleural tuberculosis occurred in, then his illness known as pleuritis tuberculosa where in addition to shortness of breath patients may also complain of chest pain when breathing in the lungs that are experiencing pleuritis tuberculosa.

3. The fever

Further symptoms often complain about is a fever (body heat), but symptoms of the fever felt by sufferers of lung spots are subfebris fever (fever with increased temperature is not too high, only ranges from 37.3-37.9 ◦ C). Fever in patients of lung spots is a common symptom of infectious diseases in the human body, so it's not allowed enforcement of diagnosis on disease of lung spots. Fever experienced by sufferers of tuberculosis is often accompanied by a very troubling night sweats while sleeping.

4. Weight loss

Systemic symptoms are also frequently complained of by sufferers of lung spots is a weight loss for no apparent reason. Weight loss is an effect of disease progression that occurs constantly (chronic) in the body of the sufferer, in addition to lung Fleck sufferers often feel energetic and their appetite also decreased certainly will affect the weight.

A number of Supporting Examination needs to be done
After the last we hear about some of the symptoms that may be experienced by sufferers of tuberculosis, below we'll continue information about a number of the supporting clinical examinations to enforce the diagnosis of this disease.

Examination of bacteria
This is a very good examination to make sure that you are infected with the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The material used is the examination of sputum examination where this should be done as much as 3 times, which is the first time that TB sufferers came, and the next morning when delivering the morning phlegm to health workers.

Radiological examination
Radiologic examinations or x-rays is also one of the supporting examination that can be used to enforce the doctors diagnosis of lung spots.

Tuberkulin test test
This inspection is often used in low tuberculosis incidence by number, where suspected sufferers suffer from TB will be seen his reaction against the Mycobacterium tuberculosis germ that already weakened and injected into the skin.

Examination of blood
The actual routine blood examination is not one specific checks to enforce the diagnosis of tuberculosis, but rather is used as a detection success of treatment of tuberculosis.

Lung Spots Treatment
The last information we will share to you all is about the treatment of tuberculosis. As already mentioned before Fleck disease is lung disease that can be cured as long as patients regularly taking medication. Treatment of tuberculosis disease indeed takes a long time, ranging between 6 to 9 months, depending on the category of diseases suffered.

Treatment of tuberculosis also require a combination of drugs to destroy the bacteria in your lungs, so that its victims often fear to consume some types of drugs at once. But not to worry there is now a fresh drug into 1 type of medication alone for the treatment of lung spots. In this drug already contained 4 types of tuberculosis drug with a certain dose of his deed shall be governed by health workers due to be adjusted with the weight of its victims.

Treatment of tuberculosis usually includes 5 kinds of OATS (Anti Tuberculosis Drugs) i.e. Isoniazid, Rifampin, Ethambutol, and Streptomycin Pirazinamid (given through injections). Each treatment has a number of side effects such as discoloration of the urine becomes red (not bloody), joint pain, tingling and liver problems also so that its use could not be done without the supervision of health care personnel.

So a certain amount of information that we could share with readers all about signs and symptoms, examination and also supporting therapy of lung spots. The importance of the examination the doctor in enforcing the diagnosis of tuberculosis will help treatment for its victims could be even faster given the complications that arise so it can't be worse. Finally, we wish the article about lung spots is useful to add insight into all of us.

Reference
http://www.who.int/features/qa/08/en/(United Kingdom)
http://www.lung.org/lung-health-and-diseases/lung-disease-lookup/tuberculosis/tuberculosis-symptoms.html (United Kingdom)

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