Four months ago, I had contact with a person suffering from tuberculosis. I'm afraid that I might have gotten infected. How can I tell if I am infected? I don't have any symptoms, but reportedly tuberculosis doesn't cause any symptoms at first.
Symptoms of tuberculosis include weight loss, fever or low-grade fever, cough, coughing up sputum, sometimes with blood, and changes in chest X-ray. Tuberculosis most often affects the lungs, and can also develop in other organs, such as the kidneys and lymph nodes. Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis is usually made on the basis of a chest X-ray, sometimes a sputum examination - the so-called direct examination on BK or culture. All these tests are performed at the doctor's request, so I encourage you to visit your doctor and tell him about your doubts.
Remember that our expert's answer is informative and will not replace a visit to the doctor.
Krystyna KnyplInternist, hypertensiologist, editor-in-chief of "Gazeta dla Lekarzy".
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