The Symptoms Of Consumption Disease (TB)

Tuberculosis, or Consumption Disease, usually affects the lungs. Its main symptoms are a persistent cough that produces thick phlegm, blood in the phlegm, chest pain, breathlessness that gets worse over time, fever, night sweats, loss of appetite, fatigue, a general feeling of being unwell, and loss of weight. Not everyone who gets infected by the bacteria that cause TB becomes ill. In many people the bacteria that cause Consumption Disease stay latent and never become active. In people who get ill tuberculosis starts to show symptoms when it reaches the lungs.

TB develops slowly and it can take years from the moment a person is exposed to the bacteria for any symptoms to appear. There are different ways to diagnose TB including chest X-rays, blood tests, a tuberculin skin test and other methods of testing. If you cough up blood or if you have a cough that lasts over three weeks you should see a doctor. Consumption Disease can also spread to other parts of the body.

Some Facts About Consumption Disease

Consumption Disease goes back a long way to 460 BC when Hippocrates identified it as phthisis and called it the most prevalent and deadly disease of his time. As time went on, more and more became known about this deadly disease. In 1699 a public health directive from Italy mentions that this disease is infectious … Continue reading

Facts About Consumption Disease

Consumption Disease is an old name for Tuberculosis (TB), and this infectious disease has been around for quite a long time, as one can see tubercular decay in spines of certain Egyptian mummies. The first one to define it as consumption (phthisis in Greek) was Hippocrates in 460 BC, when he records how widespread it … Continue reading

What Is Consumption Disease?

Tuberculosis, sometimes called Consumption Disease, is a common infectious disease. It is caused by bacteria and it generally affects the lungs although some types of TB affect other body parts. Typical symptoms include a cough that produced bloody sputum, night sweats, fever and weight loss. The weight loss gave TB its previously used name Consumption … Continue reading