Early symptoms of chronic meningitis?

Update Date: 2024-04-25 Source: Network

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Meningitis can be divided into three types: purulent meningitis, lymphocytic meningitis and chronic meningitis. Among the three types of meningitis, only lymphocytic meningitis is caused by viral infection, and other types of meningitis are caused by various kinds of infection. In the incidence of this disease, direct infection by bacteria accounted for the largest proportion. So what are the early symptoms of chronic meningitis? Let's talk about it now.

Early symptoms of chronic meningitis?

First: when the meninges and meninges of the human body are infected by bacteria and viruses, obvious complications will appear in other parts of the body, such as ear, sinus or upper respiratory tract infection. Bacterial meningitis is a very serious disease, which needs to be treated in time.

Second: usually, once patients have meningitis, the first body parts will show persistent signs of fever, and headache, neck stiffness, sore throat, vomiting, often accompanied by respiratory diseases, neck stiffness does not necessarily have pain, but the chin down close to the chest, can cause pain or not close. The above symptoms can reach the peak in adults within 24 hours, and it may take longer for children.

Third: if some patients do not receive regular treatment in time, with the continuous deterioration and aggravation of the disease, they will even have irritability, fuzzy consciousness, drowsiness, and develop into numbness, coma, and even death. Infection can cause brain edema, hinder blood flow, cause stroke like symptoms. Some people have seizures. Wolff's syndrome (progressive aggravating infection caused by Neisseria) is characterized by severe nausea, vomiting, internal bleeding, hypotension, shock and even death.

matters needing attention

It is suggested that patients must go to the regular medical institutions for treatment as soon as possible, so as not to delay the best treatment time. In addition, patients should mainly eat light food in their daily diet, and avoid eating more irritating food.