Tuberculosis, like every disease has its own symptoms - symptoms.They relate to the general condition of the child and the results of that survey showed.To say that any one symptom of TB in children - it is 100% the disease - it is impossible.
Sometimes parents are faced with the fact that if after vaccination Mantoux trace more put at the rate of children excluded from school activities or prohibit the visiting team in the garden.The only "wrong" Mantoux test - tuberculin test - still about what does not speak.
gown can rise for many reasons.
- Vaccination wet or rubbed.
- to inject the child, whose condition was "borderline", at the beginning or after an illness.
- the presence of helminthic invasion.
- has an allergic reaction to tuberculin, or vaccination coincided with an allergy to another factor.
Symptoms of TB in children
Give suspected tuberculosis symptoms in children are (if they coincide in time display):
- general weakness.The child refuses to play, trying to relax.
- Poor appetite.
- constant sweating, especially the need to strain your wet palms.
- temperature steadily rising in the evening to 37.5 degrees.
- The kid permanent moods, mood swings.
- Enlarged lymph nodes.
Each feature alone can not be determined, as a symptom of TB in children, but their combination is to get to see a doctor.
If further investigation detailed blood tests show a high erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and ultrasound of internal organs - their increase, it is possible to talk about the disease.
Set this can only be a doctor, after analyzes and inspections, including the Mantoux test, which is done with appropriate supervision.
If the trace of injection:
- 2 years is larger than the hem of BCG - vaccination against tuberculosis, made at birth - 6 mm, or a positive reaction;
- 3-5 years to positive change, or at the very spot formed papule greater than 12 mm;
- and by more than 7 14 mm, with an increase from the previous sample to 6 mm,
you can assume that it is a symptom of TB in children.
Infection Tuberculosis
Most often, children become infected with tubercle bacillus - tuberculosis bacillus - from adults suffering from the disease in an open form.It is likely to catch the infection through the objects used by the infected person.Babies "soak up" the infection from the sick mother.
tubercle bacilli not always affects the lungs.It spreads through the bloodstream throughout the body, deposited in the spleen, liver, kidneys, brain and other organs, including the skeletal system.
can see on the x-rays of TB in children, symptoms.Photo - x-ray image will show a picture that accurately describe the presence of cavities in the lungs.With the help of X-ray and visible process that develops in the kidney and skeletal system.
Sometimes a child for a long time do not notice the symptoms of the disease.This happens if the disease begins with indolent form.In addition to excessive fatigue that parents explain the congestion of children in the classroom, and weight loss and other symptoms are not present.Children complained that it hurt to walk, and they begin to look for arthritis and rheumatism.But there are cases of acute infection when symptoms of tuberculosis in children takes the form of seasonal viral infection, there is a high T and cough, swollen lymph nodes.All this goes on for much longer time than during the flu or acute respiratory disease.
If fever and cough keep more than a week, be sure to call the doctor.After 2 weeks in the sputum, released during coughing, there may be streaks of blood, and treat such disease will be more difficult.Tuberculosis, identified early, treatable and complications does not.
