Source: Wenzhou Metropolis Daily
"Look, the left lung has been 'eated' by tuberculosis !" Xiaomei (pseudonym), a Jiangxi girl with a high fever, went to the hospital for treatment. She was shocked after the doctor informed the examination results. After treatment, Xiaomei has been discharged from the hospital recently.
Xiaomei is 25 years old this year. She developed a high fever of more than 39℃ in the middle of last month and was accompanied by a cough. So she went to Wenzhou Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital for treatment .
Doctor during a CT scan found that the tissue in her left lung had been "eated" by tuberculosis bacteria , forming a huge hole with pus in the hole.
The blank part on the right is "eat" by bacteria
Xiaomei told the doctor that she had suffered from tuberculosis and had taken medicine for a period of time, but she did not go for a follow-up examination. She has not had any symptoms in recent years, so she didn't care much.
Jin Chenci, chief physician of the hospital's respiratory department, performed a puncture and drainage for her, extracted about 50 ml of pus from the hollow of the lungs, and rinsed the lungs with a large amount of normal saline. It took more than ten days to wash away the pus in the lungs, and the patient's body temperature gradually returned to normal.
Jin Chenci said that the patient's left lung no longer has any function and should not be too tired in normal times, otherwise the left lung may still be infected again, and the situation will be more serious by then.
Jin Chenci told reporters that Mycobacterium tuberculosis not only damages the lungs, but also "eats" the lungs. Under normal circumstances, the lungs are filled with gas, and it should be black and translucent when undergoing CT. However, patients with tuberculosis will experience cavity and fibrosis and contraction of lung tissues in the lungs, as if they were "eated".
Doctor reminds
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a bacteria. Infection with tuberculosis does not mean the disease. Among the infected people, the vast majority are normal, and only 10% to 15% of people will suffer from tuberculosis . Once the human immunity decreases, tuberculosis bacteria may reproduce in large quantities, which leads to tuberculosis, so the incidence of tuberculosis in the elderly is relatively high.
prevents tuberculosis infection and it is important to cut off the transmission route. Droplets are the main transmission method of tuberculosis. Droplets can be produced by speaking, singing, coughing, and sneezing. One sneezing can produce more than 40,000 droplets, and can spread more than 2 meters away.
It should be emphasized that patients with tuberculosis must take medicine regularly to complete the entire medication process. The course of treatment for tuberculosis should be at least 6 months. Do not stop the drug without authorization during this period, otherwise it will easily lead to the emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria. Drug-resistant tuberculosis not only takes a long treatment time and costs high treatment, but also has a much lower cure rate than sensitive tuberculosis. If tuberculosis can be diagnosed early, treated early, and treated standardized, the cure rate is very high.
Source: Wenzhou Metropolis Daily
Author: Wendu reporter Wang Chunxia
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