Cough of more than two weeks may be TB or tuberculosis. This was according to Dr. Enrique Sancho, Department of Health (DOH-7) Regional Program Coordinator of the Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Program.
Sancho said tuberculosis is a highly infectious airborne disease and could easily be spread to others but the danger posed is when one is asymptomatic of the illness except for the chronic cough.
Common manifestations of TB are cough of at least two weeks, fever, blood-tinged sputum and weight loss. The chronic cough alone should be a warning not to be complacent and to immediately seek medical check-up.
The DOH-7 official said one can just go to their barangay health center to have a sputum exam to determine the presence of the bacteria mainy Myobacterium tuberculosis that usually attacks the lungs. The sputum exam is given for free in the barangay health centers.
The Month of August is celebrated as National Lung Month where TB is one of the top common lung diseases afflicting Filipinos after pneumonia and lung cancer.
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