What are the symptoms of breast tuberculosis?

Breast tuberculosis is most likely to occur in women aged 20 to 40. In comparison, those who have had combined diseases such as pulmonary tuberculosis and intestinal tuberculosis are more likely to develop breast tuberculosis. The patient's breasts will experience pain, especially when pressed with the hands. The pain will be more obvious. These symptoms are easily confused with breast cancer, so the following introduces the comprehensive symptoms of breast tuberculosis.

What are the symptoms of breast tuberculosis?

Breast tuberculosis is a common disease. Most people have a certain understanding of breast tuberculosis. However, they are only limited to knowing what kind of disease it is, but they are not very familiar with the specific symptoms of breast tuberculosis. In this case, once they develop breast tuberculosis, it will be very easy to misjudge its early symptoms and miss the best time for treatment.

Symptoms of breast tuberculosis:

1. It mostly occurs in women aged 20 to 40, and the course of the disease is slow.

2. In the early stage, it is limited to the breast and presents as a single or several nodular lumps. It is painless, has unclear boundaries and may adhere to the skin. The lumps liquefy to form cold abscesses. After rupture, one or several sinus tracts or ulcers are formed. The secretions are thin and accompanied by bean curd-like substances. The skin edges of the ulcers are latent, and acid-fast bacteria can occasionally be found in the smears of the secretions.

3. The axillary lymph nodes on the affected side may be swollen.

4. May be accompanied by low fever, night sweats, and rapid erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

It is common in women aged 20 to 40 and has a slow course. In the early stage, there is one or several nodules in the breast, without pain or tenderness, with unclear boundaries from the surrounding tissues, often with skin adhesions, and the axillary lymph nodes on the same side may be enlarged.

Clinically, there is no fever. After the pus mass softens, it forms a cold abscess; it can penetrate the skin to form a fistula or sinus tract, and discharge thin pus with cheesy debris. In a few patients, the lumps become hard lumps through fibrosis, which changes the shape of the breast and causes the nipple to retract, making it difficult to distinguish from breast cancer.

The above is an introduction to the symptoms of breast tuberculosis. Through the above understanding, everyone will have a basic understanding of the symptoms of breast tuberculosis. In this way, once you have breast tuberculosis, you can discover it in the first time and not miss the best treatment time. At this time, as long as you go to the hospital for treatment in time, you can achieve the goal of cure in a shorter time.