Does mental symptom suspect encephalitis?
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If you suspect that you have encephalitis, you can make a preliminary diagnosis through the relevant symptoms. So, which are the more obvious symptoms of encephalitis? I believe that this is also a lot of friends who suspect that they have encephalitis want to understand urgently. Does mental symptom suspect encephalitis? Let's talk about it
Does mental symptom suspect encephalitis?
Disturbance of consciousness, meningeal irritation. Can appear neck muscle and scapular muscle flaccid paralysis, so that the head droops and the arm can not be raised, shake without. The involvement of cranial nerves and lower limbs is rare. Paralysis can be recovered in 2-3 weeks, about half of the muscles atrophy. Mild cases may have no obvious neurological symptoms.
Because of the different location and degree of the lesions, there are various manifestations. Diffuse encephalitis usually begins with general discomfort, and then comes to coma, convulsion and fever; Brainstem encephalitis often has facial paralysis, cough, dysphagia, limb numbness, weakness and (or) oculomotor nerve paralysis, pseudobulbar paralysis and other manifestations.
At the same time, pay attention to the primary symptoms, such as mumps virus encephalitis with parotid gland enlargement; Herpesvirus encephalitis when the skin herpes, coxsackievirus and ECHO virus encephalitis can have rash, myocarditis, hand foot mouth disease, such as lesions involving the meninges (meningeal encephalitis), meningeal irritation sign positive.
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For the symptoms of encephalitis, we should also have some understanding of it. Because encephalitis is not treated as soon as possible, the deterioration of the disease is very rapid, when suffering from chronic inflammation, it becomes more difficult to think about treatment. Therefore, for the treatment of encephalitis, the faster the treatment, the easier to cure.