The elderly to beware of tuberculosis in spring

In recent years numerous reports at home and abroad show that more tuberculosis occurred in older people, especially the spring. According to Beijing in a group of research data shows that elderly people suffering from tuberculosis for children 26 times higher than the 70 percent of adults. The elderly tuberculosis in clinical have the following characteristics:

1. Multi-onset symptoms not typical. Changbiaoxianwei a mild cough or asthma, fatigue, easily mistaken for upper respiratory tract infections, chronic bronchitis or emphysema caused by this high rate of misdiagnosis is the first result.

2. Patients with debilitating physical and reduce immunity. Once infected with tuberculosis, the disease developed rapidly and easily appear empty row of opportunities, not because of timely treatment, often for the development of severe tuberculosis.

3. More complications. Accompanied with chronic bronchitis, emphysema, silicosis, pulmonary heart disease, coronary heart disease, with diabetes and more intestinal, kidney, lymph, such as tuberculosis. A report called complications can be as high as 86.6 percent.

4. Poor drug efficacy, side effects and more. If timely diagnosis and follow the "early, the joint, moderate, law, the entire process" principle, rational drug use, the effect can be received with satisfaction.

5. Recurrence of the opportunity to more deterioration.

6. Higher mortality rates. Prevention is the key to the elderly tuberculosis: early prevention, early detection and early treatment. If your family and the elderly have the following symptoms of the disease, should be timely to go to the hospital to do chest X-ray inspection Perspective: 1. Cough, fever, short breath, chest pain and more than 10 days to hemoptysis. 2. With herpes keratitis, or erythema nodosum. 3. A history of tuberculosis and tuberculosis history of close contact. 4. Suffering from silicosis or visit subtotal gastrectomy and gastrointestinal anastomosis. 5. Longer hormone drugs (such as hydrocortisone, and promoting corticosteroid) or immunosuppressive drugs (such as cyclophosphamide)