Will tuberculosis affect pregnancy?

For diseases like tuberculosis, patients must achieve early detection and early treatment. Once diagnosed with tuberculosis in the hospital, the first thing to do is to control the route of infection to prevent the disease from spreading to people around them. In addition, patients must build up confidence. Today's medicine is more developed, and tuberculosis can be completely cured. If female friends suffer from tuberculosis, it is best not to consider pregnancy first. So will tuberculosis affect normal pregnancy?

Will tuberculosis affect pregnancy?

Becoming a mother is something that every married adult woman desires very much. The occurrence of tuberculosis is very likely to cause women to be unable to become pregnant, because the occurrence of tuberculosis will not only cause great impact and damage to the health of women themselves, but also cause some extremely serious harm to the fetus in the body, so it must be taken seriously.

Women with pulmonary tuberculosis should not get pregnant because their endocrine function will undergo abnormal changes during pregnancy. In addition, the early pregnancy reaction and physical exertion during childbirth will cause a significant decrease in their immunity. This decrease will cause the tuberculosis lesions in female tuberculosis patients to worsen. Tuberculosis patients are very likely to experience repeated attacks or worsening of the disease after pregnancy.

If a female tuberculosis patient develops severe active tuberculosis, severe pregnancy reactions or other serious diseases during pregnancy, the pregnancy cannot continue and she can only terminate the pregnancy to ensure her life safety. Moreover, some anti-tuberculosis drugs are needed in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. If female patients are pregnant, the use of these drugs is likely to affect the development of the fetus in the body, and may even cause more serious damage to some physiological functions of the fetus.

From the above introduction, we can understand that the occurrence of pulmonary tuberculosis will have some extremely adverse effects on pregnancy. The occurrence of pulmonary tuberculosis will not only damage the health of female patients and threaten the life safety of female patients, but also cause considerable damage to the fetus in their body. Therefore, it must be taken seriously. Patients with more serious conditions must avoid pregnancy. Pregnant female friends are best to terminate the pregnancy after the occurrence of pulmonary tuberculosis.