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| What tests do you need to do for tuberculosis? What are the treatments for tuberculosis? |
1. Smear test
The sputum of the patient's sputum or other parts of the body is made into a smear to detect the patient's yin and positive under the microscope.
2. X-ray inspection
Not only can tuberculosis be detected early, but the location, extent, nature, development and effects of the lesion can be diagnosed.
3. Tuberculin test
(1) Positive indicates tuberculosis infection, but not necessarily diseased. A dilution of the skin test is positive, often suggesting active tuberculosis in the body.
(2) Negative Indicates that there is no tuberculosis infection. However, the following situations should still be excluded.
- After tuberculosis infection, it takes 4-8 weeks for allergic reaction to be fully established; therefore, in the early stage of allergic reaction, the lignin test can be negative.
- The use of immunosuppressive agents such as glucocorticoids, malnutrition, and patients with measles and whooping cough can temporarily disappear.
- Severe tuberculosis and various critically ill patients do not respond to sputum.
- Others: The sputum response of patients with lymphoid immune system defects (leukemia, sarcoidosis) and the elderly is also often negative.
