Symptoms of acute encephalitis in children?

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Infantile encephalitis began to show fever, tears, runny nose, red eyes, fear of light. On the third to fourth day of fever, the child developed a red rash, which began to appear behind the ear, on the face, and gradually developed to the whole body. At this time, the body temperature was higher than before, and there may also be vomiting, diarrhea, cough and other manifestations. Symptoms of acute encephalitis in children? Let's talk about it.

Symptoms of acute encephalitis in children?

1. Children in prodromal stage have fever, headache, myalgia, vomiting, diarrhea and other manifestations. Infantile encephalitis began to show fever, tears, runny nose, red eyes, fear of light. Examination can be found on both sides of the buccal mucosa in children with white spots, red around, which is called measles mucosal spots.

2. The symptoms of encephalitis vary in severity, mainly manifested as neuropsychiatric abnormalities. The most common manifestations of neurological abnormalities are fever, headache, vomiting, drowsiness, coma, convulsion, etc. in severe cases, the symptoms of brain, hypothalamus, basal ganglia, brain stem, cerebellum and spinal cord may have abnormal manifestations. Mental disorders include excitement, multilingualism, irritability, inconstancy of crying and laughing, insomnia, abnormal behavior, hallucination, fantasy, or indifference, silence, decreased activity, no eating, poor orientation, memory loss, incontinence of urine and feces, etc.

3. The accompanying symptoms are the symptoms of corresponding virus infection before or at the same time of encephalitis. On the third to fourth day of fever, the child developed a red rash, which began to appear behind the ear and face, and gradually developed to the whole body. At this time, the temperature was higher than before, and there might be vomiting, diarrhea, cough and other manifestations. After 3-5 days of eruption, the rash gradually subsided in the order of eruption, the body temperature decreased and the condition improved. When suffering from measles can be combined with pneumonia, laryngitis, encephalitis, can also cause subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.

matters needing attention

Pay attention to oral cleaning and skin cleaning, eat light, easy to digest diet, such as lean meat porridge, noodles, vegetable soup, etc.