Can people with tuberculosis eat beef?

Written by Xiong Hong Hai
Infectious Disease
Updated on March 01, 2025
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Patients with tuberculosis need to appropriately increase their intake of high-quality proteins, such as beef, duck, fish, pork, and lean meat. These foods can provide the body with abundant proteins and the raw materials for amino acid synthesis. It is also necessary to appropriately consume fresh vegetables and fruits to obtain a rich supply of vitamins, fibers, and minerals. The variety of food should be diversified, nutrition should be balanced, and meals should be evenly distributed. Moreover, systematic and standardized anti-tuberculosis treatment with scientific and reasonable methods, combined with nutritional adjustments, can lead to a cure in most cases.

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Can people with tuberculosis eat beef?

Patients with tuberculosis need to appropriately increase their intake of high-quality proteins, such as beef, duck, fish, pork, and lean meat. These foods can provide the body with abundant proteins and the raw materials for amino acid synthesis. It is also necessary to appropriately consume fresh vegetables and fruits to obtain a rich supply of vitamins, fibers, and minerals. The variety of food should be diversified, nutrition should be balanced, and meals should be evenly distributed. Moreover, systematic and standardized anti-tuberculosis treatment with scientific and reasonable methods, combined with nutritional adjustments, can lead to a cure in most cases.

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Symptoms of tuberculosis

Tuberculosis of the lung presents in many forms, as there are also various types of pulmonary tuberculosis, each exhibiting different symptoms. However, the most common symptoms primarily include coughing and expectoration, which are the most typical manifestations of pulmonary tuberculosis. The cough in pulmonary tuberculosis is generally mild, either dry or producing only a small amount of phlegm. If the tuberculosis is accompanied by cavities, the amount of phlegm may be larger. If there is a bacterial infection in addition to the tuberculosis, the phlegm may become purulent. Some patients with pulmonary tuberculosis may also experience hemoptysis, which can vary in amount from light to severe. A small number of patients may suffer from chest pain and difficulty breathing. Additionally, there are systemic symptoms associated with pulmonary tuberculosis, such as fever (both low and high fever may occur), night sweats, and fatigue, among others.

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Can tuberculosis relapse?

Tuberculosis can relapse, and the answer is definitely yes. In clinical practice, we see many patients who have had tuberculosis and, years later, experience a recurrence of the disease, even multiple recurrences. However, the probability of this is generally not high. As long as everyone follows the doctor's instructions for standard anti-tuberculosis treatment and completes the full course of treatment, most patients can be cured. However, there are a few people whose treatment process is not standard, or who stop taking their medication on their own, and these actions can increase the risk of tuberculosis recurrence.

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How long can someone with tuberculosis live?

Early detection and appropriate anti-tuberculosis treatment of tuberculosis can lead to a normal lifespan once cured. However, it is important to exercise regularly and enhance immunity, since tuberculosis may recur if the body's resistance decreases. With the increase of drug-resistant tuberculosis, treatment difficulties have intensified. If it is detected late or not treated properly and the lung damage progresses to an advanced stage, it can be life-threatening, with survival ranging from days to years. When tuberculosis involves massive hemoptysis, death can occur at any time due to suffocation or hemorrhagic shock, depending on the specific condition.

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Does tuberculosis infect people?

Tuberculosis is a contagious disease, and hearing the term "tuberculosis" inevitably makes people nervous. However, not all tuberculosis patients are contagious. Research shows that among tuberculosis patients, only those who have tuberculosis bacteria found in sputum smear tests are contagious. With a source of infection, the tuberculosis bacteria must be transmitted to others through certain routes. Airborne transmission is the main route of transmission for tuberculosis bacteria. When a tuberculosis patient coughs, sneezes, or speaks loudly, they release a large number of droplet nuclei containing tuberculosis bacteria into the air, which can be inhaled by healthy individuals and cause infection. The degree of tuberculosis bacteria infection mainly depends on factors such as the amount of bacteria the patient expels, the severity of coughing symptoms, and the extent of contact. Therefore, when there is a tuberculosis patient nearby, we first need to understand whether they are in the active phase of the disease, that is, expelling bacteria, and whether they are undergoing anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy. If the patient has a negative sputum test or has undergone chemotherapy for a positive sputum test, such patients have very low contagiousness, so there is no need to worry too much about being infected.