What is peritoneal tuberculosis?
Peritoneal tuberculosis is a relatively unusual disease caused by infection of tuberculosis in the lining of the abdomen. It is a type of abdominal tuberculosis that infects the peritoneum, a membrane lining the inside of the abdominal cavity that surrounds the abdominal organs. Tuberculosis is primarily a respiratory disease, but can infect any area of the body. Like the whole tuberculosis, peritoneal tuberculosis is caused primarily by bacteria mycobacterium tuberculosis and sometimes other types of mycobacterium family.
Tuberculs enters the peritoneum in the body into the body into the glasses into the body into the body into the body into the body. The infection most often comes from the lungs, where it is called lung tuberculosis before spreading into the abdominal cavity when the boosting swallows infected sputum. Tuberculosis infection in nearby organs can also spread to the peritoneum. This may also be the result of bacteriitoneum input through a bloodstream or lymph nodes. mycobacterium tuberculosis can in the Laten bodyFor a long time, so the symptoms of peritoneal tuberculosis may not occur only for years after the bacteria enters the peritoneum. Most people with mycobacterium bacteria of tuberculosis at the moment are only carriers and do not suffer from disease, but may begin to develop symptoms if their immune response is weakened.
As with other tuberculosis infections, peritoneal tuberculosis causes symptoms such as fever, weakness and night sweating. Peritonea infection also causes symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea and feelings of pressure or abdominal difficulties. Hematochesia, or blood in the stool, is also common. A minority of cases of peritoneal tuberculosis occurs simultaneously with pulmonary tuberculosis, which has symptoms such as chest pain, Cough and bloody plegma production, but most cases do not.
The most common form of peritoneal tuberculosis causes the accumulation of fluid, called ascites, in d dRiby between two layers of peritoneum, a parietal peritoneum. Unlike dry type infections, where this accumulation of fluids does not occur, infections of wet types are called. Ascites can cause other symptoms such as swelling, distension and shortness of breath. It also creates a risk of other complications such as inflammation and kidney problems.
Peritoneal tuberculosis is rare in the industrial world, but more common in developing countries. It is treatable antibiotics, but may be deadly without medical care. People with immune system weakened by poor health, side effects of some drugs and diseases such as AIDS that damage the immune system are particularly vulnerable to the risk of latent infection.