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Persons with signs and/or symptoms suggestive of tuberculosis disease. recent contacts of persons known or suspected to have tuberculosis. Tuberculosis Pathophysiology are systemic infection, primary infection/disease, progressive primary disease, miliary disease, meningitis and chronic TB (re-activation). Primary Infection of Tuberculosis, 95% of cases begin with pulmonary focus, usually a SINGLE focus, hypersensitivity develops 2 to 6 weeks, until then, focus may grow large and hypersensitivity brings caseation. Miliary Disease, Generalized Hematogenous Tuberculosis. Generalized dissemination through bloodstream. Millet seed appearance on X-ray. most children still have active primary complex when miliary disease strikes. There is no such thing as a positive PPD from just “being exposed” to the disease. Primary vs reactivation disease, Children with primary TB are rarely “communicable”, untreated, there is high morbidity and mortality, children with quiescent disease deserve prophylaxis and prophylaxis is “essentially” curative.

So I heard about a newscast saying that clubs in the San Francisco area have had a connection to some tuberculosis cases. Well I am kind of nervous because I went to a club in San Francisco last Friday and a couple days later I developed a cough that I get every so often and it feels like there is something in the back of my throat (almost like phlegm but it hurts a little bit [maybe not hurt but something like that]) (well my nose is a little stuffed). and then on top of that 2 days after the club I felt fairly tired all day (I figured it was just my body recovering from the club a couple days before). so how fast do signs of tuberculosis show…and does it even sound like that to anyone?

Also has anyone heard of the link of tuberculosis disease and dance clubs in San Francisco? do you think it would be bad for me to still go tomorrow to a dance club?

This is high flu and cold season. If other people are sick in the club and you breathe their spores then you could contract whatever they have, but how your body heals or fights it off depends on who well nourished you are and what defenses your body has that could fight them off. however, in the case of tuberculosis you need to have a chest x-ray for a proper diagnosis. If you're sick why would you go expose others to your illness? It would be a bad idea to go dancing tomorrow. Stay home until you're better.

so the symptoms of tb include

Nausea / weakness / fatigue
Rapid weight loss
Fever
Night sweats
Cough
Chest pain
Haemoptysis

but can someone explain to me- why these symptoms arise? what causes them- they are all signs of tb but why do they appear?

also how do doctors differentiate between another disease and TB?
lastly does anyone know what the human body does to get rid of tuberculosis disease?

Thanks in advance

See reference materials on the symptoms of tuberculosis

the symptoms come on because the tb. germs are foreign to your body and you are trying to fight them off and also it is causing damage & irritation to the lungs.

a chest x-ray is the 100% way to tell for sure and it rules out other diseases as well.

a very strict medication regemin that takes months to complete (like 6 months, i think) but it has to be redone from the beginning and lowers your chances of cure if the treatment in messed up in any way (like missing a dose) it also can cause treatment to last longer than 6 months too.