Expert answer:
THE tuberculosis features general symptoms and non-specific initiations for tuberculosis. The main symptoms of chronic pulmonary tuberculosis, the subject of this post, are general symptoms that can be confused with other diseases and, as they are usually insidious (they are mild and slow progressing), people do not seek care readily.
Symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis:
- Fever usually take place in the late afternoon and early evening;
- Sweating nocturnal;
- Weight Loss progressive, at first, weight loss is small and with the passage of months this weight loss becomes intense causing great physical weakness;
- Loss of appetite;
- Malaise general sense as a weakness, a fatigue, a state of general weakness, at the beginning is felt more at the end of the day along with the fever and then may occur throughout the day;
- Cough which at first can be light, discreet and dry; with the progression of tuberculosis the cough becomes more and more intense and becomes productive with streaks of blood, in some cases the disease progresses to such an extent that the patient begins to cough blood in large quantities.
A person with a cough for three weeks or more associated with the above symptoms is considered a suspected case of tuberculosis and should be adequately investigated by the physician.
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