TB Disease Characteristics and How to Prevent It

TB Disease Characteristics and How to Prevent It

Tuberculosis or TB (tuberculosis) is a contagious infectious disease caused by bacteria Mikobakterium Tuberculosis. These bacteria attack the respiratory tract and lungs.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria spread through coughing TB patients. For those who have a low immune system, these bacteria will be very easy to enter. You should not be too close to the TB patient, especially when he coughs.
The TB disease often attacks in people at an average age of 15-35 years. But the nature of transmission of TB disease can happen to anyone, both old and young, as well as children. It's important to keep your immune and family.
Every year, in Indonesia case of tuberculosis is growing. Already hundreds of thousands of patients who died from tuberculosis. In fact, Indonesia is the third largest country with the problem of tuberculosis in the world.

Here are the traits or symptoms of TB disease emergence:
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- Often have a fever that is not too high but lasts longer
- Often sweating at night
- Easy flu that is intermittent
- Weight loss and loss of appetite
- Coughing more than 3 weeks or cough with blood
- Body feels weak, lesuh, and not tasty

Here's how to prevent TB disease you can do:

- Keeping the immune system to stay strong immune
- Keep a safe distance towards people with TB disease
- Get immunizations for infants that are not easily infected with tuberculosis
- Drying beds in the sun. TB germs will die if exposed to sunlight.
- For patients with TB, you should not spit and cough carelessly.

That is some brief explanation regarding tuberculosis. Hopefully the above will help you to avoid the disease tuberculosis.