At the present stage, the annual gold screening for adults is the “gold standard” for the diagnosis and prevention of chronic pulmonary diseases. Thanks to such a simple procedure, strict monitoring and timely detection of pulmonary pathology occurs within any developed state. This is especially true for such a formidable disease as tuberculosis.
Despite the successful and rapid development of modern medicine, tuberculosis infection is still one of the most common chronic diseases of the respiratory system. Koch's wand can affect any internal organ, although pulmonary tissue, nevertheless, serves as a favorite place for its localization. With weakening immunity, mycobacterium tuberculosis begins to multiply actively. This activity is easily detected using x-ray diagnostic methods. They with absolute certainty reveal spots on the lungs, indicating a pathological process that has arisen in them. The larger the spots, the greater the percentage of lung tissue was affected by a specific infection, which includes tuberculosis. Spots on the lungs indicate the severity of the condition, are a sign of lung tissue decay.
Spots on the lungs with tuberculosis can be single (infiltrative tuberculosis), and can be multiple (disseminated tuberculosis).
Pulmonary tuberculosis is considered a prominent representative of a chronic, sluggish infectious disease, the causative agent of which is a very dangerous mycobacterium tuberculosis. It enters the human body mainly by airborne droplets. It is not necessary at the same time to be close to a sick person, it is enough to read the book that he held in his hand, use his cutlery or stand not far from the place where he recently spat.
In order for bacilli to actively proliferate, specific conditions are needed:
- Decreased immunity,
- Weakened body
- Frequent stressful situations in life,
- Pregnancy,
- The presence of other chronic diseases (stomach ulcer, systemic pathological conditions, diabetes mellitus).
After the pathological process is initiated by microbes in the body, the manifestation of a disease in a person does not occur immediately. He can walk for a long time, perform habitual actions and not know that destructive mechanisms have already been launched in his body.
Very often, everything is opened when a citizen has passed the next commission, which must include fluorography of the chest organs. In the finished image, the radiologist detects spots on the lungs. In general, when deciphering an X-ray of the lungs is done, professionals call light areas “blackouts” and dark areas, on the contrary, “enlightenments”. Therefore, for most ordinary people who absolutely do not understand anything in medical terminology, dark spots on the lungs will have a picture of light areas in an x-ray.
For everyone who has this chronic infection, the disease turns into a real tragedy. After all, they have to sacrifice their usual lives in order to recover. Treatment of tuberculosis at this stage is possible, but it is very expensive for patients, not materially, but emotional, personal. The opinion accepted in society that only the lower social groups of people suffer from consumption is absolutely wrong. Everyone is susceptible to tuberculosis, from small to large. Therefore, you should never mock or neglect those who have experienced this condition. They don’t choose a disease; it finds victims for itself.