Symptoms of meningitis

summary

Meningitis can be divided into three types: purulent meningitis, lymphocytic meningitis and chronic meningitis. Among the three types of meningitis, only lymphocytic meningitis is caused by viral infection, and other types of meningitis are caused by various kinds of infection. In the incidence of this disease, direct infection by bacteria accounted for the largest proportion. Especially in some adults meningitis is caused by direct infection.

Symptoms of meningitis

When the disease is most severe, it can lead to shock or coma. There are also some patients will be anxious. The disease can sometimes lead to severe sleepiness, which may be a physical reaction of meningitis to the nervous system. Some patients will be in a trance and depressed.

Some patients are in the acute stage after the onset of the disease, and it may be very difficult to eat, while some patients can not eat at all. After the onset of the disease, patients can feel headache, which is mainly caused by increased intracranial pressure. In addition, some patients may have decreased body resistance due to the disease, so they are prone to various infections.

The course of meningitis is usually quite common, so after the onset of this disease, the first is some psychological symptoms. For example, many patients feel depressed because of this disease, and think that the treatment of this disease will take a lot of time, and the cost is relatively high. So it is very important to do psychological nursing actively for such patients.

matters needing attention

Patients need to pay attention, meningitis can lead to more serious symptoms, some people even because of the disease and induce epilepsy and blindness and other more serious phenomenon. Some patients may have hemiplegia because of the disease.