I want to know if I have tuberculosis

If you want to know if you have tuberculosis, you can use clinical symptoms, imaging tests, and laboratory tests. If tuberculosis is confirmed, anti-tuberculosis drugs need to be used promptly under the guidance of a doctor.

1. Clinical symptoms

1. Cough: When a patient has tuberculosis, after being stimulated by inflammation, it will cause congestion and swelling of the bronchial mucosa, and will secrete a large number of inflammatory substances, so the symptoms of cough will appear;

2. Sputum cough: due to the inflammatory reaction in the lungs, it will also lead to an increase in secretions in the respiratory tract, which will cause sputum cough;

3. Hemoptysis: If the condition is more serious, it will also damage the vascular tissue, and then cause blood vessel rupture and bleeding, forming hemoptysis;

4. Fever: Because tuberculosis is an infectious disease, pyrogens may also be produced during the illness, which will affect the thermoregulatory center, which can be manifested as continuous low-grade fever or high-fever phenomenon.

2. Imaging examination

A chest x-ray can reveal a distinct hyperplasia at the hilum and a speckled calcification, which can also lead to a preliminary diagnosis of tuberculosis.

3. Laboratory examinations

1. PPD test: that is, skin tuberculin test, is a common method to detect whether there is Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in the body in clinical practice, the normal result is negative, and the positive indicates that it may have been infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis;

2. PCR method: It is a molecular biology technique that can be used for rapid screening and diagnosis of tuberculosis, with high sensitivity and specificity, which is helpful for early diagnosis.

4. Other examinations

For example, tuberculosis antibody detection, tuberculosis culture and identification, among which tuberculosis antibody detection is to use immunofluorescence to detect whether tuberculosis antibodies exist in the body of the tested, if the result is positive, it means that there may be tuberculosis infection.

It is recommended to pay attention to maintaining good living habits and avoid sharing daily necessities with others to avoid infecting others. At the same time, it is also necessary to pay attention to strengthening nutritional supplementation and eating more protein-rich foods appropriately, which is conducive to enhancing physical fitness and promoting physical recovery.