Is encephalitis contagious

summary

Encephalitis is a common serious disease in the brain. In order to avoid serious consequences, people need to treat it quickly. This paper also makes the following analysis on whether encephalitis is infectious.

Is encephalitis contagious

First of all: encephalitis mainly includes encephalitis B (epidemic encephalitis B) and epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis (epidemic encephalomyelitis). In the way of transmission, encephalitis mainly depends on blood. Encephalitis is inflammation of brain cells. Encephalitis is usually caused by virus infection. A few cases of encephalitis are caused by infectious diseases such as mumps, infectious mononucleosis and herpes simplex virus There are a few brain infections that are not caused by viruses.

Secondly: encephalitis is mainly caused by bacterial, viral and fungal infections, which should be said to be contagious. However, due to different pathogens, the ways of infection are different. For example, encephalitis B is transmitted by mosquito bites, and tuberculosis may be related to contact and droplet transmission. Therefore, children will be vaccinated against encephalitis, which is to reduce the possibility of being infected.

Finally: viral encephalitis is a group of central nervous system infectious diseases caused by a variety of virus infection, is the most common clinical aseptic meningitis, patients mainly manifested as fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhea and loss of appetite and other symptoms, viral encephalitis is generally not infectious, but cold virus will be infectious.

matters needing attention

After reading the above description, I believe that we have some understanding of whether encephalitis is infectious. After children suffer from encephalitis, parents should pay attention to keep the children's room cool and ventilated, keep quiet, and equip with rescue drugs, oxygen, sputum aspirator, etc.