Healthy Living and Fitness

Illness Care: Tuberculosis

Symptoms

A person with TB infection will have no symptoms. A person with active TB may have any, all or none of the following symptoms:

• a cough that will not go away
• feeling tired all the time
• weight loss
• loss of appetite
• fever
• coughing up blood
• night sweats

These symptoms can also occur with other types of lung disease so it is important to see a doctor and to let the doctor determine if you have TB. It is also important to remember that a person with TB disease may feel perfectly healthy or may only have a cough from time to time. If you think you have been exposed to TB, get a TB skin test.

 

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