For tuberculous pleurisy patients how long can go to work, mainly depends on the effect of treatment and the presence of complications and other factors, tuberculous pleurisy belongs to a special type of tuberculosis, for simple tuberculous pleurisy patients, in the absence of obvious pleural effusion formation, through the oral antituberculous drug treatment can gradually relieve and control the disease, generally half a month after the can go to work, but at this time still need to pay attention to rest, avoid exertion! However, at this time, it is still necessary to pay attention to rest and avoid exertion. For patients with pleural effusion, while taking oral anti-tuberculosis drugs, they need to perform thoracocentesis to drain the pleural fluid, and when their pleural fluid is drained cleanly without obvious recurrence, they can go to work after one month or so. However, for encapsulated pleural effusion or even the formation of honeycomb lung, patients mostly need thoracoscopic or surgical treatment, and the treatment time of patients will be prolonged. Therefore, for tuberculous pleurisy, through standardized anti-tuberculosis drug treatment and thoracocentesis drainage when necessary, it usually takes about 1-1.5 months to go to work, and the course of anti-tuberculosis drug treatment of the patient must be sufficient, which usually takes 6-9 months, to avoid recurrence of the disease.