Symptoms of acute meningitis?

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Acute meningitis usually refers to acute purulent meningitis. The disease is caused by some suppurative bacterial infections. The main site of this bacterial infection is the human pia mater or arachnoid. When you infect these areas, it can lead to some acute inflammatory reactions. Symptoms of acute meningitis? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of acute meningitis?

Systemic symptoms: once acute meningitis occurs, patients usually show a sudden and explosive onset, with obvious systemic symptoms, mainly manifested as elevated body temperature, high fever, chills, disturbance of consciousness, obvious headache, drowsiness or even coma, and disorientation. If the brain tissue is damaged, it can also cause seizures.

Meningeal irritation: meningeal irritation is a typical sign of acute meningitis. Because meningeal inflammation after infection, patients will appear a variety of meningeal irritation signs, such as neck stiffness, Kernig sign and brudzinski sign. However, if the patient is older or falls into a deep coma, the meningeal irritation sign can not be induced.

After the acute onset of acute meningitis is controlled and the condition is stable, the temperature of patients can continue to rise and fever in the later stage of the course. Because of the occurrence of meningitis, brain tissue barrier is damaged, and brain tissue function will be damaged to a certain extent. The patient's reaction will not be as sensitive as normal, slow, insensitive to external stimuli, consciousness will not be clear, and even coma.

matters needing attention

Even if the weather is very hot, the patients should go to outdoor activities in time, because during the illness, the patient's resistance is very poor, if not in time for exercise, it may lead to the disease becoming more and more serious, exercise can promote the body's blood circulation in time, can also help increase resistance in time.