Stephanie vanegas by https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz Tuberculosis en-us 2020-11-25 21:18:14 UTC 2025-12-09 15:23:09 UTC hello@padlet.com Overview srvanegas01 https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961635593 2020-11-25 21:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961635593 Symptoms srvanegas01 https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961638621 Although your body may harbor the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB), your immune system usually can prevent you from becoming sick. For this reason, doctors make a distinction between:

  • Latent TB. In this condition, you have a TB infection, but the bacteria remain in your body in an inactive state and cause no symptoms. Latent TB, also called inactive TB or TB infection, isn't contagious. It can turn into active TB, so treatment is important for the person with latent TB and to help control the spread of TB. An estimated 2 billion people have latent TB.
  • Active TB. This condition makes you sick and in most cases can spread to others. It can occur in the first few weeks after infection with the TB bacteria, or it might occur years later.
Signs and symptoms of active TB include:

  • Coughing that lasts three or more weeks
  • Coughing up blood
  • Chest pain, or pain with breathing or coughing
  • Unintentional weight loss
  • Fatigue
  • Fever
  • Night sweats
  • Chills
  • Loss of appetite
Tuberculosis can also affect other parts of your body, including your kidneys, spine or brain. When TB occurs outside your lungs, signs and symptoms vary according to the organs involved. For example, tuberculosis of the spine may give you back pain, and tuberculosis in your kidneys might cause blood in your urine.

]]> 2020-11-25 21:26:33 UTC https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961638621 Prevention srvanegas01 https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961647187 2020-11-25 21:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961647187 Who can get Tuberculosis? srvanegas01 https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961655141 2020-11-25 21:31:55 UTC https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961655141 Treatment srvanegas01 https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961659806 2020-11-25 21:33:27 UTC https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961659806 Causes srvanegas01 https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961678102 2020-11-25 21:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961678102 Diagnosis srvanegas01 https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961682762 2020-11-25 21:40:52 UTC https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961682762 Early Tuberculosis times srvanegas01 https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961696160 During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tuberculosis (TB) was the leading cause of death in the United States, and one of the most feared diseases in the world.]]> 2020-11-25 21:45:33 UTC https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961696160 Diagnosing Tuberculosis in Early 19th and 20th century srvanegas01 https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961704392 Formerly called “consumption,” tuberculosis is characterized externally by fatigue, night sweats, and a general “wasting away” of the victim. Typically but not exclusively a disease of the lungs, TB is also marked by a persistent coughing-up of thick white phlegm, sometimes blood. They had very little to go off of other than symptoms. Late 19th century they were able to do chest xrays.]]> 2020-11-25 21:48:12 UTC https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961704392 Treatment in Early 19th-20th century srvanegas01 https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961722242 There was no reliable treatment for tuberculosis. Some physicians prescribed bleedings and purgings, but most often, doctors simply advised their patients to rest, eat well, and exercise outdoors.[1] Very few recovered. Those who survived their first bout with the disease were haunted by severe recurrences that destroyed any hope for an active life. They opened sanitariums and would have sun porches for patients to rest on because they believed fresh air and sunlight would help cure them.]]> 2020-11-25 21:54:02 UTC https://padlet.com/srvanegas01/u5kqsxprgotm0wdz/wish/961722242