How is meningitis caused

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Meningitis sounds very frightening. In everyone's heart, this disease is very serious, and there are not many treatment methods, and the effect is not very obvious. However, the current medical level has made a great breakthrough. There are many effective ways to treat meningitis. Next, I'll talk about how meningitis is caused.

How is meningitis caused

First, bacterial meningitis is caused by a bacterial infection. This kind of bacteria is carried in the nose or in the body of healthy people. Generally, it will not cause harm to the human body, but people are easy to be infected by this kind of bacteria when they have a cold, because the inflammation of the nose may make the bacteria enter the brain. If it is not found and treated in time, it is easy to cause bacterial meningitis.

Second: tuberculous meningitis is caused by non suppurative inflammation of meninges caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, accounting for about 6% of the total tuberculosis. After blood dissemination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, tuberculous nodules were planted under the pia mater, and a large number of tuberculous bacteria entered the subarachnoid space after the tubercle burst. In recent years, the incidence rate and mortality rate of tuberculous meningitis are increasing.

Third: cryptococcal meningitis can be caused by fungi, the most common one is Cryptococcus, which can be found in pigeons. Healthy people are not easy to suffer from meningitis associated with fungi, but for people infected with HIV, which is a human immunodeficiency virus that can cause AIDS.

matters needing attention

No matter what the disease, find the cause, can be targeted treatment, and do a certain preventive measures, meningitis patients also need to carry out some knowledge, so it is more convenient to deal with, away from some more easily breeding bacteria pollution source.