Symptoms of acute meningitis?

Update Date: 2022-08-11 Source: Network

summary

Encephalitis is a common disease in clinic. Acute encephalitis is one of the most common encephalitis diseases. Once this disease occurs, patients will have some obvious symptoms. If patients' friends can know more about these symptoms, they can find and treat this disease in time, This is very good for the patients after treatment. So what are the symptoms of acute encephalitis?

Symptoms of acute meningitis?

1. Systemic symptoms: once acute meningitis occurs, the patient usually presents with sudden and explosive onset and obvious systemic symptoms, which are mainly manifested as high 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.

3. After the acute onset of acute meningitis is controlled and the condition is stable, the patient's temperature 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

Acute meningitis often has a sudden onset, and it will seriously affect the vital signs and physiological functions of patients. Therefore, patients with acute meningitis should be treated actively and timely, provide all kinds of life support, treat according to the causes, and closely monitor the changes of patients' condition, so as to reduce the damage caused by the disease to as small as possible.