Meningitis symptoms?

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Most meningitis is caused by pathogens, and epidemic meningitis caused by meningococci is the most important type; A few are caused by irritating chemicals (such as procaine and methotrexate). There are three basic types of meningitis: purulent meningitis, lymphocytic meningitis (mostly caused by virus) and chronic meningitis (caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Treponema pallidum, Brucella and fungi). Meningitis symptoms? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Meningitis symptoms?

Older children may complain of headaches. If the condition is serious, headache is persistent and aggravating, vomiting is aggravating and can be changed into jet, gradually sleepiness and convulsions can occur, and if the condition is further aggravated, coma, frequent convulsions, limb muscle relaxation and paralysis will occur. There may also be irregular breathing, some children died.

The main symptoms were fever, headache, vomiting and irritability. Neurological examination and cerebrospinal fluid examination were abnormal. Because children's resistance is weak, blood-brain barrier development is not perfect, bacteria are easy to enter the brain nervous system.

Childhood onset is acute, high fever can reach more than 39 ℃, children often complain of severe headache, poor spirit, fatigue, loss of appetite, frequent vomiting. At the onset of the disease, the child is conscious, and the progress of the disease may lead to drowsiness, blurred consciousness, disordered speech, inability to correctly identify the direction, aspiration and coma.

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When epidemic meningitis, all patients with fever and headache; Mental depression; Acute pharyngitis; Skin, oral mucosa bleeding, four of two, can be symptomatic preventive treatment of drugs, can effectively reduce the incidence rate, prevent epidemic.