Pulmonary tuberculosis Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Symptoms

Pulmonary tuberculosis Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Symptoms

Also called tuberculosis or pulmonary tuberculosis caused by a bacteria known as mycobacteria. Tuberculosis can attack the lungs, central nervous system, lymphatic system, circulatory system, urinary tract and genital system, digestive system, bones, joints and skin

Specific name of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB Lung)) is mycobacteria tuberculosis.


Symptoms of TB disease (pulmonary TB) as follows:

1.     Chronic Cough
2.     Cough with phlegm and blood came out
3.     Night sweats
4.     Fever and weight loss that can not be explained.

Tuberculosis (TB) is very easily spread through the air. People with TB disease can transmit the disease through the air when they cough, spit or sneeze.



Several tests are performed to support the diagnosis of disease Tuberculosis:

1.     Chest x-ray
2.     Blood Test
3.     Microscopic examination.

Tuberculosis is a disease that has affected not only humans but also animals for more than 18,000 years, scientists have also found a strain of tuberculosis spread in the last 18,000 years

The first physician to identify tuberculosis as a contagious disease was Ibn Sina in 1020SM.

In 1987, cases of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom for 5000 ranks the following ranks to 117.000 in 1913. But then in 2000 the number of cases rose again to 6.300 and the number increased again in 2005, reaching 7.600 cases of Tuberculosis

Typically, Pulmonary tuberculosis is caused by bacteria that spread to the lungs and infect the area. If you deal with people who have TB disease or if you have a bad diet and unhealthy, then you have a higher chance of developing TB disease. Also if you live in a very crowded, it's quite possible once you suffering from tuberculosis. And throughout society in general, if there are high cases of HIV disease and the improvement of the poor, the TBC will be more likely to occur.