-Cough
-Fever
-Chills
-Sweating
-Night sweats
-Flu-like symptoms
-Gastrointestinal symptoms
-Weight loss
-No appetite
-Weakness
-Fatigue
The following are symptoms of early stage TB.
The most common symptom is cough.
The disease develops slowly, infected people at first may blame the cough on smoking, a recent episode of flu, the common cold, or asthma. The cough may produce a small amount of green or yellow sputum in the morning. Eventually, the sputum may be streaked with blood, although large amounts of blood are rare.
Other obvious symptoms include cold/night sweat and fatigue.
People may awaken in the night and be drenched with a cold sweat, with or without fever. Sometimes there is so much sweat that people have to change nightclothes or even the bed sheets. However, tuberculosis does not always cause night sweats, and many other conditions can cause night sweats.
People also feel generally unwell, with decreased energy and appetite. Weight loss often occurs after they have been ill for a while.
Fatigue is a general term for an abnormal condition in which a person feels a sensation of tiredness, weariness, exhaustion, weakness, or low energy. Fatigue is a symptom of a wide variety of mild to serious diseases, disorders and conditions. It can result from infection, inflammation, trauma, malignancy, chronic diseases, autoimmune diseases, mental illnesses and other abnormal processes.
The following are symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis:
-Persistent cough
-Chest pain
-Coughing up bloody sputum
-Shortness of breath
-Breathing difficulty
-Recurring bouts of fever
-Weight loss
-Progressive shortness of breath
-Urine discoloration
-Cloudy urine
-Reddish urine
Rapidly developing shortness of breath plus chest pain may signal the presence of air or fluid (pleural effusion) in the space between the lungs and the chest wall. About one third of tuberculosis infections first show up as pleural effusion. Eventually, many people with untreated tuberculosis develop shortness of breath as the infection spreads in the lungs.
-Chest pain
-Coughing up bloody sputum
-Shortness of breath
-Breathing difficulty
-Recurring bouts of fever
-Weight loss
-Progressive shortness of breath
-Urine discoloration
-Cloudy urine
-Reddish urine
Rapidly developing shortness of breath plus chest pain may signal the presence of air or fluid (pleural effusion) in the space between the lungs and the chest wall. About one third of tuberculosis infections first show up as pleural effusion. Eventually, many people with untreated tuberculosis develop shortness of breath as the infection spreads in the lungs.
Urine discoloration may occur when one has contracted TB. The colour may vary, depending on the stage of tuberculosis.
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