TB Causes Pregnancy Complications and Infertility, If Left Untreated, warn doctors

The tuberculosis (TB) bacteria impacts the lungs but can also spread to the uterus and even the fallopian tubes, causing pregnancy complications or infertility. TB diagnosis during pregnancy can be risky for pregnant women and even babies if not treated at the right time. It will be the need of the hour to get timely treatment to avoid any complications due to TB, inform doctors.

Elucidating about TB is a fatal infectious disease that tends to take a toll on the lungs, the doctors inform that it occurs due to the bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria that causes tuberculosis spreads from person to person via the tiny droplets released into the air when one coughs and sneezes. The symptoms of TB are coughing, chest pain, weight loss, poor appetite, tiredness, fever, night sweats, and chills. Taking part TB is an illness in which the TB bacteria rapidly multiply and invade different organs of the body. Military tuberculosis affects the entire lung tissue and can cause problems.

Talking about complications of pregnant women who suffer from TB, Dr Padma Srivastava, Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Motherhood Hospitals, Lullanagar, Pune, said, “Spontaneous abortion, a small for date uterus, preterm labor, low birth weight, and increased neonatal mortality are all complications of tuberculosis. Acquiring an active TB infection in pregnancy can put the mother and baby at risk. But treatment can prevent all the complications. Tuberculosis can affect not only the lungs but many other organs too, like bone, skin, intestines, uterus, and fallopian tubes