What is the symptom of tuberculous encephalitis?

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I have a friend who got married early and gave his child to his mother-in-law in the countryside when he was two years old. I didn't expect that I always had a low fever and coughed these days. I have no appetite to eat and sleep. no way out. My friend rushed back to his hometown overnight to take the children to see a doctor. After examination, it was found to be tuberculous meningitis. I accompanied her to take the baby for examination. Now I will tell you some common knowledge about this disease, hoping to attract your attention. Help everyone.

What is the symptom of tuberculous encephalitis?

Headache and fever. Most of them were subacute, and a few of them were acute or chronic onset. But in infants, the onset was more acute and the symptoms were mainly convulsions, which were misdiagnosed as tetany. Early low fever, general weakness, headache and vomiting. And then high fever, headache, irritability, mental disorder. Stiff neck and Kirschner's sign appeared earlier, late neurological disorders, hemiplegia, convulsions and fundus optic disc edema.

Tuberculous meningitis in children. General symptoms: mainly tuberculosis poisoning symptoms, including fever, loss of appetite, weight loss, restless sleep, temperament and mental state changes and other dysfunction symptoms.

Early stage: about 1-2 weeks, the prodromal symptoms include changes in mental state, such as irritability, crying, or mental dullness, not like playing, in addition, low fever, loss of appetite, restless sleep, thin, constipation or unexplained vomiting, elderly children may complain of headache, early stage is mild or unsustainable, infants may have rapid onset, the prodromal period is very short or no, The symptoms of meningeal irritation appeared immediately after the onset of the disease.

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Meningeal stimulation period (middle stage): about 1-2 weeks, headache continues and worsens, vomiting worsens and changes into jet, vomiting is the most common symptom of all age groups, gradually appears drowsiness, or drowsiness alternates with restlessness, the child may have hypersensitivity, cry because of pain when touching him or checking, constipation and boat shaped abdomen often appear at the same time, It is one of the typical symptoms of infantile tuberculous encephalopathy. It may have convulsion attack, but it is still conscious after attack.