Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis of the ileum is a type of gastrointestinal tuberculosis, with symptoms that are easily confused with other diseases. Tuberculosis is common in people of working age, especially between the ages of 30 and 55. In addition, patients with intestinal tuberculosis often also have tuberculosis in other organs such as pulmonary tuberculosis, rarely urinary tract tuberculosis (most commonly renal tuberculosis).

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease of the whole society today, capable of spreading and endangering the life of patients. In particular, intestinal tuberculosis is a very common type of tuberculosis in developing countries, with few typical clinical symptoms and some dangerous complications caused by intestinal tuberculosis.

I have caecal tuberculosis, have to make a temporary anus outside the right abdominal wall and have been taking medicine according to the treatment regimen for 1 year now. The doctor asked me: When can a patient being treated for cecal tuberculosis be able to close the anus temporarily?