Affected child Plaques Lung TBC Not Necessarily
The term lung spots are often used, even in the medical world itself is not a disease called lung spots. Almost all diseases that attack or related to the lungs will cause spots on his lungs. Plaques itself comes from the Dutch language, which means stain.
Usually, children who experience prolonged coughing and not being advised to stop X-rays. Rontgen's useful to see if there are any spots or not, and see the size and shape of the plaque itself. But to know the exact cause should be further examination.
According to Dr. Aditya Suryansyah SpA, Friday (2/10/2009) cough experienced by children was the cause for their foreign objects that enter the respiratory tract, including the lungs. Foreign objects can be allergens (materials trigger allergies) or microorganisms (viruses or bacteria) and by coughing mucus is expected to be out.
In children, the main symptoms of TB disease is not a cough that is persistent. To find child hit by TB or not to do the examination Mantoux Test is useful to see whether or not the bacteria that causes TB. As well as a blood test to see erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and the type of limfositnya, as quoted from MayoClinic, Friday (2/10/2009).
Average number of children who suffer from lung spots will be given medication to be taken for several months and usually should not be stopped. But parents should find out in advance what the cause of these spots. Because not a few physicians who directly provide TB drugs in children, but the child may just have allergies.
If his son had spots on the lungs, do not immediately sentenced her to TB disease. Because many lung diseases that have symptoms such as persistent cough and there are spots on his lungs.
Better not give different treatment to children who have lung spots. Suppose the child is suffering from TB it will not transmit to an adult, otherwise the likelihood of children infected than adults.
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