2023-09-28 15:46:00
Amal Allam wrote Thursday, September 28, 2023 06:46 PM
Dr. Maysaa Abdullah, Professor of Liver, Digestive System and Infectious Diseases at Zagazig Medicine, said during the currently held Unified Liver Conference that tuberculosis can affect the liver, digestive system, lungs, or even the nervous system.
She pointed out that tuberculosis, which affects the digestive system, cannot be diagnosed easily, as it may cause high fever, abdominal pain, or both, and currently genetic testing, which achieves an accurate diagnosis, is available in fever hospitals for free, adding that diagnosis was previously done using dyes and was The diagnosis is not accurate, but the genetic test has become accurate. She also confirmed that the culture also diagnoses only 50% of cases, but the genetic test for tuberculosis bacteria has become very accurate because the symptoms of tuberculosis in the digestive system are similar to many other symptoms.
She said that pulmonary tuberculosis may be transmitted to the digestive system, or it may infect the digestive system from the beginning when drinking unpasteurized milk or that has not been boiled properly, and it begins to affect the intestines, so the milk must be constantly stirred when boiled, because if tuberculosis bacteria are present, they will be in the intestines. The upper layer of milk, and therefore boiling the milk for a period of time over the fire can eliminate tuberculosis bacteria if they are present in it.
She stressed that boiling with continuous stirring prevents infection with tuberculosis bacteria in the digestive system, and dealing with infected animals may transmit the disease.
She said that awareness is very important, especially since it comes in a way that overlaps with other diseases such as immune diseases or Crohn’s disease, unless the patient’s tissues are examined, and what is important is proper diagnosis so that it can be treated.
She added that weight loss or high temperature are not an indicator of infection, as pulmonary tuberculosis is the one that can appear with these symptoms. Also, tuberculosis may infect the lymph nodes or the nervous system or lead to meningitis, explaining that when tuberculosis infects the lung, it may infect many parts. From the body and treatment varies from one patient to another depending on the place where the tuberculosis is found.
She explained that a patient who suffers from meningitis resulting from tuberculosis can receive treatment for a period ranging from one year to a year and a half, while pulmonary tuberculosis takes treatment for a period of up to 6 to 9 months, adding that we have centers for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis to control tuberculosis. And its treatment.
Dr. Maysaa Abdullah, General Rapporteur of the Unified Conference on Liver, Digestive and Infectious Diseases, currently held in Cairo, said that the conference was attended by 52 foreign speakers from 23 countries from 6 continents, and regarding 172 Egyptian speakers from 37 universities and government hospitals, who discussed the conference during the conference. The unified unit for diseases of the liver and digestive system from all specialties, as well as pediatrics, diseases of the liver and digestive system, and infectious diseases, with the participation of members of the National Committee for Combating Viruses.
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