Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that is spread through the inhalation of small drops of coughing or sneezing from an infected person, affects the head of the lungs, and can affect any part of the body, including the bones and nervous system, TB is usually spread among close people or within the same family Who live in the same house, and that infants, young children and older people are more likely to have tuberculosis.
The environment and poverty play an important role in increasing the risk of tuberculosis, as well as in the immune system due to other diseases such as HIV infection, alcoholism or drug addiction. Tuberculosis is also closely associated with malnutrition and vitamin D deficiency.
Some symptoms appear on people with TB, including persistent coughing for more than three weeks, blood sputum at times, weight loss, night sweats, fever, tiredness, and anorexia. The body can eliminate bacteria through the immune system by killing them, but other bodies can not do so to keep the bacteria inside the body active and affect other organs of the body.
TB can be diagnosed by skin test, blood test, radiation and other special means. The first method is to inject a small amount of fluid called the tuberculosis into the arm. Other methods are normal. Treatment of TB depends on whether The person carries the infection or the disease is active, then some antibiotics are prescribed to be taken over several consecutive months.
As mentioned above, malnutrition plays a role in the spread of tuberculosis. This will impede the body’s ability to fight infection due to deficiency in some vitamins, essential minerals and proteins. The diet of the TB patient consists mostly of gravy and soups. They can be easily digested instead of large quantities, to facilitate digestion and so that large amounts do not affect the respiratory tract and thus help irritate it.
You should avoid fatty or spicy foods, and you should eat a diet rich in many fresh vegetables and fruits with the appropriate amount of calories needed by the patient, and should avoid refined sugar and canned foods and pancakes and sweets and sauces and drinks containing caffeine as well as pickles and meat that is digested.