How to prevent tuberculosis infection?

Tuberculosis is an ancient disease. Since ancient times, it has been an important cause of influence on people's health. Because tuberculosis is very harmful, it often causes patients to experience symptoms of decreased physical strength and dizziness. Therefore, life will be greatly affected after contracting tuberculosis. Pulmonary tuberculosis is the most famous type of tuberculosis. Throughout history, pulmonary tuberculosis has claimed the lives of countless people and even once caused a large-scale epidemic. Nowadays, although tuberculosis can be treated, people should not underestimate its impact and should lay a solid foundation for prevention because tuberculosis is highly contagious. Let’s take a look at how to prevent tuberculosis infection.

Patients with pulmonary tuberculosis should not spit anywhere, because their sputum contains tuberculosis bacteria, which will fly everywhere with the dust in the air and may cause infection when inhaled by people with low immunity. They should spit on paper and burn it. This is the only way to kill the tuberculosis bacteria in the sputum. If the sputum of a tuberculosis patient is yellow, it indicates a secondary bacterial infection and anti-inflammatory treatment is also required.

Precautions:

1. When eating, it is best to separate the tableware used by tuberculosis patients from that of their family members, use public chopsticks, and put the dishes on a separate plate of the tuberculosis patient. Although pulmonary tuberculosis patients mainly spread the disease through the respiratory tract, we still need to pay attention to prevention in our daily lives. For family members who often come into contact with tuberculosis patients, a tuberculin test should be done. If they have close contact with tuberculosis patients and the tuberculin test is positive, preventive chemotherapy can be given.

2. Be sure to disinfect fresh milk before drinking it, because fresh milk contains bovine tuberculosis bacteria, which will be killed after high-temperature sterilization. If people drink fresh milk that has not been sterilized at high temperature, bovine tuberculosis bacteria will enter our body. When our resistance is low, we may be infected with pulmonary tuberculosis. If patients with pulmonary tuberculosis do not spit out the sputum but swallow their own sputum, they may develop intestinal tuberculosis.

3. When someone in the family is diagnosed with tuberculosis, it is best to let him or her sleep in a separate room and keep the room ventilated, because tuberculosis is transmitted through the air. If you often share a room with tuberculosis patients, if you have not received the tuberculosis vaccine and have low body resistance, it is easy to be infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and contract pulmonary tuberculosis and tuberculosis of other organs. Therefore, try not to rest in the same room with people with tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.