What are the early symptoms of tuberculosis?

  Before we understand the early symptoms of tuberculosis, let’s briefly talk about the common ways of tuberculosis onset. According to our long-term clinical practice, there are roughly four ways of tuberculosis onset: 1. chronic onset, mainly symptoms of fatigue, low fever, wasting, etc. These symptoms are easily ignored and thought to be caused by work exertion, etc. 2. 2. Acute onset, with fever, cough, sputum and other symptoms, mostly seen in infiltrative tuberculosis, which can easily be taken as a cold or flu, and still not effective after more than two weeks of treatment.  3.The disease starts with hemoptysis, hemoptysis, blood in sputum, which often draws the patient’s attention, and tuberculosis is found by further chest X-ray or chest X-ray, sputum bacillus examination, etc.  4. Starting with pleurisy, chest pain, fever and shortness of breath on the sick side, and chest pain can be relieved if pleural effusion is present.  The common early symptoms of tuberculosis are as follows: 1. fatigue and weakness, which is obvious in the early morning and afternoon, but excitement at night, and sometimes irritability and insomnia.  2. Gradual weight loss, but no other cause can be found.  3.Decreased appetite, tasteless food.  4.Chronic cough or phlegm, dry cough in the early morning.  5.Coughing blood in the sputum or coughing bloody sputum after several mouthfuls of blood in the early morning for several days.  6.Hot flashes in the afternoon, low fever in the afternoon or evening, receding in the latter half of the night, somewhat like the tide, with rise and fall. Sometimes the lungs are normal after X-ray chest examination, and the possibility of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis causing it should also be thought of.  7. Night sweats are often accompanied by fatigue after night sweats, which should be noticed if they occur repeatedly, but generally speaking, night sweats are easy to appear in patients with more obvious symptoms of poisoning.  8. Frequent chest tightness and chest pain are more common in patients with pleurisy starting in a pleuritic manner.  9.When women usually have irregular menstruation or menopause, and there is no pregnancy or gynecological disease, they should pay attention to the presence of tuberculosis. Men, especially young people with sudden and frequent seminal emission, should also be taken seriously.  We list the above early symptoms of tuberculosis in order to alert you, but these symptoms are not specific in themselves, not that the above symptoms are tuberculosis, but should be taken seriously and the possibility of having tuberculosis should be thought of for early diagnosis and early treatment by further examination. If you have tuberculosis, you may have a few of the above symptoms, or two of them or even one of them, but not all of them at the same time. If symptoms such as hemoptysis, severe coughing, shortness of breath, fever, obvious night sweats, and emaciation appear, it is more important to have a quick diagnosis and treatment.