How often should tuberculosis be reexamined

Tuberculosis is a highly contagious disease. It can only be cured through drug treatment. However, long-term use of drugs can easily cause some side effects to the body, such as liver damage and symptoms of high uric acid in patients. In order to reduce the harm of drugs, patients should regularly review the disease and stop taking the drug in time after recovery. So how often should tuberculosis be reviewed?

First, how often should tuberculosis be rechecked? This is a question that many people are concerned about, because tuberculosis is an infectious disease, and rechecking is definitely necessary after treatment. After treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, it is recommended to go to the Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Center for a checkup every 6 months (that is, half a year). Moreover, patients who have recovered from tuberculosis for more than 3 years also need to be re-examined, and they only need to be re-examined once a year.

Second, patients who have taken medication for one month should not only take the medicine obediently after returning home, but also should have follow-up examinations. Generally, these people need to go to a large hospital for further blood routine examinations, and have blood drawn to check liver function, kidney function, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

Third, the cause of the disease: Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex includes Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium africanum and Mycobacterium voles, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the main cause of human disease. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is 0.3-0.6um×1-4um in size, small and slightly curved, with slightly blunt ends. Acid-fast staining is its important characteristic. Clinically, once acid-fast-staining-positive bacteria are found in a specimen, most of them represent Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which still requires culture and further species identification. Tuberculosis bacteria grow slowly and it takes at least 2-4 weeks for visible colonies to appear.

How often should patients with tuberculosis be checked? After stopping medication, patients with tuberculosis usually need to be checked regularly at least, and the check-up period is three years. It is also recommended that patients after tuberculosis treatment should pay attention to rest and avoid smoking, drinking and staying up late. If the patient feels any discomfort, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time. Patients who have undergone tuberculosis treatment need to pay attention to rest and avoid smoking, drinking, and staying up late. If the patient feels any discomfort, it is recommended to go to the hospital for treatment in time, and it should be noted that after treatment of pleurisy, some patients will develop pleural adhesions.