Early symptoms of meningitis in children

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Meningitis is a high-risk disease for children and the elderly. If it is not treated in time, it will cause permanent brain damage or even death. So once children are found abnormal, they should be treated in time. Let's take a look at the following.

Early symptoms of meningitis in children

First, meningitis is an infection of the meninges or meninges (the membrane between the skull and the brain). Usually accompanied by bacterial or viral infection. Complications in any part of the body, such as ear, sinus or upper respiratory tract infections. Bacterial meningitis is a very serious disease, which needs prompt treatment. If the treatment is not timely, it may die within a few hours or cause permanent brain damage.

Second: viral meningitis is more serious, but most people can completely recover, a few left sequelae. Meningitis can involve dura mater, arachnoid and pia mater. Hard meningitis is usually secondary to skull infection. Incidence rate of this disease has been greatly reduced since the widespread use of antibiotics.

Third: soft meningitis, including arachnoid and soft meningitis, is quite common. Therefore, meningitis actually refers to soft meningitis. Most meningitis is caused by pathogens, and epidemic meningitis caused by meningococci is the most important type; A few are caused by irritating chemicals (such as procaine and methotrexate).

matters needing attention

There are three basic types of meningitis: purulent meningitis, lymphocytic meningitis (mostly caused by virus) and chronic meningitis (caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Treponema pallidum, Brucella and fungi).