What are the symptoms of viral encephalitis?

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Are you familiar with viral encephalitis? This disease can not be underestimated, will bring great pain to patients, serious can cause death. We all know that the treatment must be the right medicine, can be fast and effective. So what are the symptoms of viral encephalitis? Next, I'll give you a detailed introduction.

What are the symptoms of viral encephalitis?

The incidence of the disease is high in summer and autumn, but it can occur all year round in tropical and subtropical areas. It is common in children, but also in adults. Most of them were acute onset, with virus infection and systemic poisoning symptoms, such as fever, photophobia, myalgia, anorexia, diarrhea and general fatigue; And meningeal irritation signs such as headache, vomiting, mild neck strength and Kernig sign. The course of disease is usually more than one week in children, and lasts for two weeks or longer in adults.

The clinical manifestations may vary with the age, immune status, virus types and subtypes of the patients, such as fever, vomiting, skin rash, mild neck strength or even absence; Hand foot mouth syndrome (HFMD) is common in enteric disease type 71 meningitis, and non-specific rash is common in ECHO virus type 9 meningitis.

The pressure of CSF may increase, and the number of cells may increase to 10-1000 × In the early stage, polymorphonuclear cells were predominant, and lymphocytes were predominant in 8-48 hours; The level of protein increased slightly and the level of sugar was normal. Acute enterovirus infection can be separated by throat swab and feces. PCR detection of CSF virus DNA has high sensitivity and specificity.

matters needing attention

Usually more exercise, improve disease resistance, prevent cold and intestinal infection, once the patient timely and effective treatment, prevent its deterioration. Vaccinate measles, rubella and mumps on time; Mosquito control, mosquito prevention and Japanese encephalitis vaccination.