Early symptoms of meningitis in young children?

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Children are the best gift of every family. It takes at least one year for a young couple to get married and give birth to their lives. Next door, Xiao Huang just gave birth to a baby. As a result, the family was not happy. Soon after the baby was born, she got neonatal meningitis. The doctor gave several critical notices and felt that the child could not survive. This is a bolt from the blue for the new parent Xiao Huang. This disease is a common infectious disease of the central nervous system, with a mortality rate of 5% - 15%. Even if it can survive, it will have serious sequelae. Early symptoms of meningitis in young children? Let's talk about it.

Early symptoms of meningitis in young children?

There are three early symptoms of neonatal meningitis: 1. Infection, poisoning and acute brain dysfunction. During this period, children will have high fever, restlessness and disturbance of consciousness. Huang's baby is always depressed, long-term sleepiness, drowsiness and even coma. This may cause brain damage in the future.

2. Increased intracranial pressure meningitis is a kind of brain disease, very common is brain edema, increased brain pressure. Children are prone to headache, vomiting and diarrhea. Xiao Huang's child is also complicated with cerebral hernia. He often has irregular breathing, and the most serious one of conscious disturbance is pupil dilation.

3. Meningeal irritation syndrome. Newborns younger than three months like Xiaohuang will have vomiting, screaming, cranial fissure cracking, and sometimes convulsions. Xiaohuang's husband and wife are very distressed to bear such a big virus at a young age, hoping that the baby's disease can be improved.

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The mortality rate of infants with this disease is 10%. The children who can survive also have various neurological sequelae, such as hearing loss, epilepsy, mental regression, blindness, abnormal behavior, etc. Hope our lovely baby can be healthy.