{"id":29,"date":"2017-08-30T14:17:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T14:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/health.smartworld.asia\/?p=29"},"modified":"2018-03-05T17:04:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T17:04:51","slug":"tuberculosis-causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/health\/tuberculosis-causes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuberculosis Causes and its Relation with Alcohol & Malnutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuberculosis causes: Tuberculosis<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0often known as TB is a contagious and infectious disease that attacks the\u00a0lungs. Two different kinds of TB are found. One is the Latent TB while the other one is Active TB. The disease can also spread to other body parts like the\u00a0brain\u00a0and\u00a0spine. Mycobacterium Tuberculosis<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>is a type of bacteria that\u00a0causes tuberculosis.<\/p>\n

According to the data \u201c Tuberculosis is the second biggest killer, globally<\/strong><\/em>.\u201d But thankfully with proper treatment, the vast majority of cases of TB are curable. TB is a contagious disease but it is not that easy to catch. The most probable chances of catching Tuberculosis are from someone you live or work with. Most people with active TB can be cured with an appropriate treatment for at least 2 weeks are no longer.<\/p>\n

Alcohol has a Part in it:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The researchers concluded that the association of alcohol intake with the risk of tuberculosis may be because of both an increased risk for infection related to specific social mixing patterns associated with alcohol use as well. Indeed, even alcohol brings out poor TB treatment adherence and an awful TB results, which may also lead to death.<\/p>\n

Main Causes of Tuberculosis:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Malnutrition in simple words can be defined as the insufficient, imbalanced or excessive consumption of nutrients. Some major causes of malnutrition are<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Food shortages<\/h3>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lack of breastfeeding<\/h3>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mental health problems etc<\/h3>\n

Suffering from acute malnutrition tends our body to become weak and vulnerable to catching diseases, such as TB. In fact, a person suffering from TB has an increased demand for energy, which often causes a TB patient to lose a significant amount of weight and this can worsen acute malnutrition. Drugs treating TB often do not work properly if a patient suffering does not have a good, nutritious diet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuberculosis causes: Tuberculosis\u00a0often known as TB is a contagious and infectious disease that attacks the\u00a0lungs. Two different kinds of TB are found. One is the Latent TB while the other one is Active TB. The disease can also spread to other body parts like the\u00a0brain\u00a0and\u00a0spine. Mycobacterium Tuberculosis\u00a0is a type of bacteria that\u00a0causes tuberculosis. According to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[98,99,97,96],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-facts","tag-causes-of-tuberculosis","tag-tuberculosis","tag-tuberculosis-causes","tag-what-causes-tuberculosis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}