Coughing and sputum for more than two weeks in a row may be tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis, commonly known as "consumption", is a chronic respiratory infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mycobacterium tuberculosis may invade various organs of the human body, but the main invasion of the lungs, called tuberculosis. What organ is invaded by the tubercle bacillus is called tuberculosis of what organ, such as invasion of the meninges is called meningeal tuberculosis, invasion of the bones is called bone tuberculosis, invasion of the kidneys is called renal tuberculosis, and so on. Pulmonary tuberculosis accounts for more than 80% of all types of tuberculosis, and pulmonary tuberculosis is the main type of tuberculosis infection. The main symptoms of TB are coughing and sputum production for more than 2 weeks, or sputum with blood in it. At the same time, it may also be accompanied by chest pain, night sweats, low afternoon fever, generalized fatigue, loss of appetite and other common symptoms.

Tuberculosis seriously affects the health of the individual patient, if not thoroughly treated will lose the ability to work, and even cause death. In addition, tuberculosis is transmitted through the respiratory tract and is highly contagious, endangering the health of others. If a person with TB is left untreated, he or she can infect an average of 10 to 15 susceptible persons per year. The TB epidemic, if left unchecked, will also have a major impact on the national economy. Since most TB patients are young adults, in their most productive years, it is estimated that this alone results in a direct loss of more than 9 billion dollars per year to the gross national product. Multidrug-resistant TB is even more harmful to individuals and families and society. Compared with ordinary tuberculosis, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis has a longer infectious period due to the long time needed for diagnosis and treatment, and the prolonged movement of patients around greatly increases the chance and scope of the spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria, while infected people become multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients directly once they develop the disease. In addition, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis requires treatment for up to two years, the treatment cost is expensive, only the cost of anti-tuberculosis drugs is as high as 340,000 yuan, which is 100 times more than the cost of ordinary tuberculosis, and will bring a heavy economic burden on the family and society.

Prevention of tuberculosis transmission of the most important measures is the timely detection and cure of infectious tuberculosis patients. If found to have a continuous cough, sputum more than two weeks of people, should immediately mobilize him to go to the tuberculosis prevention and treatment of professional institutions for examination, and according to the doctor's requirements of formal treatment; close contact with tuberculosis patients to carry out the relevant examination; on the already infected with tuberculosis bacteria of the population, should be under the direction of the doctor taking medication, prevention of tuberculosis; do a good job of the ventilation of densely populated places and environmental hygiene, exercise and Enhance physical fitness, develop good hygiene habits; for the newborn timely inoculation of BCG vaccine, BCG vaccine mainly for childhood tuberculous meningitis, chestnut tuberculosis has a better preventive effect.