Tuberculosis of the eye

If common tuberculosis is more likely to affect people with weakened immunity and representatives of the poor, tuberculosis has a different contingent of victims. As a rule, this disease occurs in women 30-50 years old, middle-class women living in large cities. Why this happens, scientists have not been able to find out, but statistics has remained unchanged for several decades. The situation is aggravated by the fact that the signs of eye tuberculosis can be detected only by an experienced ophthalmologist, therefore it is almost never possible to diagnose the disease in the early stages.


Symptoms of eye tuberculosis that should alert you and your doctor

Infection with tuberculosis of this type occurs by hematogenous way, that is, through the blood. This means that the virus can enter the body in the form of sputum or other physiological fluids of a sick person, settle in soft tissues, and, coinciding with one of the eye diseases, hit this organ. An important condition for infection is precisely that the eyes are the weakest link at the time of the entry of MBT (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) into the body. The very form of the disease, the place of its dislocation in one of the parts of the eye, and also the nature of the inflammatory process determines the type of tuberculosis:

Each of these diseases may not be associated with tuberculosis. But if you have frequent relapses of one of them, and the cause could not be established, the doctor should conduct tests on the Office.

Symptoms and the first signs of eye tuberculosis will be the same as for the usual form of each ophthalmic disease. Among them:

How much is eye tuberculosis contagious?

Since eye tuberculosis is almost never associated with the production of pathogenic bacteria in the patient's body, it is rarely contagious. Nevertheless, it is possible to say for sure whether the patient poses a threat to society, can be done only after repeated analyzes on bak-sow. The treatment of eye tuberculosis directly depends on these results - knowing the specific type of MBT, and there are about 20 of them, choosing an antibiotic to which the rod will not have resistance is much easier.