We all know the harm of tuberculosis and understand that it is a highly infectious disease. If you have tuberculosis, you must seek medical treatment as soon as possible to prevent more serious harm to yourself and your loved ones. Today, let’s talk about the relevant knowledge of tuberculosis and take a look together.

Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which can affect many internal organs, with pulmonary tuberculosis infection being more common. Excreators are the main pathogen. Not everyone will develop symptoms after infection with tuberculosis bacilli. Clinical onset may occur when the body’s resistance decreases or when cellular-mediated hypersensitivity increases. If diagnosed and treated promptly, most cases can be cured clinically.

What to eat for tuberculosis:

1, Fig

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the fig and poria have sweet and neutral properties and affect the spleen and intestines meridians. Their key functions are to strengthen the spleen and stomach, treat diarrhea, clear intestines and detoxify, resolve phlegm and promote Qi, benefit the lungs and promote lactation, and reduce swelling and detoxify. It can be used to treat cervical lymphadenitis. Method: Take 30 grams of fresh fig root, decocted in water.

2, Yellow croaker

The yellow croaker is rich in various nutrients such as protein, human fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B21, vitamin B22, vitamin B3, and so on, which are all essential nutrients for the body. They have a very good effect on nourishing the original Qi, regulating Qi and blood, and are indispensable for the body. Regular consumption of yellow croaker can improve appetite and prevent gastrointestinal diseases and symptoms such as urinary tract stones; it also has a very good auxiliary regulatory effect for symptoms such as peptic ulcers, tuberculosis, and aplastic anemia.

3. Papaya

Papaya contains papain and carpaine, which have the effect of resisting tuberculosis bacteria and parasites such as tapeworms, parasites, whipworms, and amebae, so they can be used to treat tuberculosis, ascariasis, amebic liver abscess, and other conditions.

4. Wild Turtle

The wild turtle has a sweet and mild taste and can be used as medicine throughout its body. In addition to the meat of the wild turtle, the turtle shell can nourish yin and subdue yang, resolve phlegm and relieve symptoms; turtle oil has the effect of nourishing blood and Qi, reducing fever and resolving blood stasis; turtle blood can nourish yin and reduce fever, suitable for patients with tuberculosis; the ash of the turtle’s head can treat various diseases in children and prolapse of the anus.

Treatment

1. Drug treatment

The key efficacy of drug treatment is to reduce the infectious period, mortality, infection rate, and incidence rate. For each individual patient, rational treatment refers to the persistent initial, combined, appropriate, regular, and full-line application of sensitive drugs to achieve clinical and molecular biological cure.

(1) Early treatment should be initiated immediately after the discovery and diagnosis, and medication should be administered immediately;

(2) Combination therapy based on the condition and the efficacy characteristics of anti-tuberculosis drugs, using two or more drugs in combination to improve and ensure efficacy;

(3) Appropriately adjust the dosage based on different conditions and individual requirements;

(4) Regular patients must strictly adhere to the medication method required by the treatment plan, consistently maintain treatment, and cannot arbitrarily change the plan or arbitrarily discontinue medication;

(5) Full-line treatment refers to the patient must adhere to the treatment process as planned in the treatment plan, with the short-term generally being 6 to 9 months. Generally speaking, initial treatment patients according to the standards mentioned have an efficacy of 98%, and recurrence is less than 2%.

2. Surgical treatment

Surgical treatment is rarely used in the treatment of tuberculosis. When it is impossible to distinguish between tuberculosis nodules larger than 3 cm and lung cancer, for those who have undergone retreatment with one side having chemical fiber thin-walled cracks, long-term internal medicine treatment has failed to turn sputum bacteria negative, or for those with one side of the damaged lung accompanied by bronchial dilation, with the loss of efficacy and recurrent hemoptysis or secondary infection, pulmonary or total lung resection can be performed. For tuberculous empyema and (or) pleural thickening fistula of bronchitis that have failed to respond to medical treatment and are accompanied by active pulmonary tuberculosis on the same side, pulmonary-pleural thickening resection should be performed. The contraindications for surgical treatment include: active tuberculous lesions of bronchitis mucosa, without the scope of resection, poor general condition, or significant heart, lung, liver, and kidney dysfunction. Surgical treatment is only considered when drug treatment fails. Patients must also use anti-tuberculosis drugs before and after surgery. In 1993, at the academic conference on indications for surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis and lung cancer in China, it was explicitly proposed that the indications for surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis are as follows:

(1) Indications for surgical treatment of cavitary tuberculosis: Patients treated with initial and repeated standard treatment with anti-tuberculosis drugs (about 18 months), with no significant change or expansion of the fissure, positive sputum bacteria, especially cases with drug-resistant tuberculosis bacilli; Patients with repeated hemoptysis, secondary infection (including bacterial infection), and failure of drug treatment; Patients who cannot remove cancerous fissures; Patients with atypical mycobacteria, poor effect of lung cavity radiotherapy, or high ratio.

(2) Indications for surgical treatment of tuberculosis ball: Patients with tuberculosis ball treated with standard anti-tuberculosis treatment for 18 months, with positive sputum bacteria and hemoptysis; Patients with tuberculosis ball that cannot be considered as extrapulmonary lung cancer; Patients with tuberculosis ball diameter greater than 3 cm, no change under standard radiotherapy, as a relative surgical treatment indication.

(3) Indications for surgical treatment of damaged lung: Patients who still have sputum discharge, hemoptysis, and secondary infection after standard anti-tuberculosis treatment.

(4) Indications for surgical treatment of mediastinal lymph node tuberculosis: Patients with disease expansion after standard anti-tuberculosis treatment; Patients with blood disease compressed by bronchus, bronchitis causing severe respiratory obstruction; Patients with disease rupture causing atelectasis, caseous pneumonia, and failure of medical treatment; Patients who cannot remove mediastinal tumors.

(5) Indications for emergency surgery for massive hemoptysis: Patients with blood pressure, more than 600ml of hemoptysis in 24 hours, who have failed to respond to medical treatment; Blood bleeding location is confirmed; Cardiac function and overall condition approved for supplementation; Patients with repeated massive hemoptysis, who have experienced asphyxia, pre-asphyxia, hypotension, or shock.

(6) Indications for surgical treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax: Patients with pneumothorax occurring (2-3 times or more) with blood pressure; Patients with closed chest cavity drainage for more than 2 weeks who still leak air again; Patients with early signs of infection in fluid-pneumothorax; Patients with blood-pneumothorax who have not reexpanded the lung after chest cavity drainage; Patients with significant pulmonary bullae on the side of full-term pneumothorax; Patients with pneumothorax on both sides of the tube should be treated surgically as soon as possible.

In addition, for those who are not proactive in exercising and have weak physique with coldness, it is recommended to take Jinxing Shanyan every year as a source of energy for improving physical fitness. The consumption of tuberculosis is very high, and moderate supplementation of Jinxing Shanyan immune factors can promote the production of human albumin and gamma globulin, and enhance the function of T cells and macrophages.