* Symptoms: cough with phlegm for more than three weeks. It can also be accompanied by bleeding cough. Patients will experience a fever, especially in the afternoon or evening, sweating at night. Decreased appetite, which causes the body to be thin.
* Cause: The disease tuberculosis is caused by bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The disease can be transmitted through saliva when people spray cough.
* Treatment: Treatment for TB when it is known from an early age are not too expensive and easy to cure because there has been government provided drugs. If necessary, patients with TB can also be quarantined in a special place so as not to transmit the disease.
* Prevention and solutions: If there are friends, neighbors or family members who experience these symptoms, it is better advised to consult your doctor to see if the cough is TB disease or not. Because sometimes a cough illness is often considered trivial, but this disease can kill someone if not immediately addressed and can be transmitted to others.
This disease is also true is one that has conquered the disease, but later returned to attack. One of them is due to tuberculosis patients are not spending their medication. Drugs must be taken regularly for 6 to 9 months to cure this disease. Not spend the drug can cause people can not recover and lead a drug can no longer fight germs because germs become resistant.