What expression does infantile meningitis have

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There are some diseases, we only know its symptoms in order to take good treatment for it, the emergence of meningitis in children if you can not take early treatment, the child's normal life will have a certain impact. My neighbor's child was not treated in time because of this disease when he was a child. Now he feels that his intelligence is always worse than that of his peers. Let's share with you the common problem of what is the manifestation of infantile meningitis!

What expression does infantile meningitis have

First: early (prodromal) 1-2 weeks, the main symptoms of children's personality changes, such as less speech, lazy, easy to tired, irritable, irritable and so on. May have fever, anorexia, night sweats, emaciation, vomiting, constipation (infants can be diarrhea) and so on. Older children may complain of headache, mostly mild or non persistent, while infants show frowning, frowning, or staring, drowsiness, or developmental retardation.

Second: in the middle stage (meningeal stimulation period) 1-2 weeks, severe headache, jet vomiting, drowsiness or restlessness, convulsion, etc. were caused by increased intracranial pressure. There were obvious meningeal irritation, neck rigidity, and positive signs of Kenig and bruzinski. In young infants, the anterior fontanelle was distended and the cranial suture was split. Cranial nerve dysfunction may occur in this stage, the most common is facial nerve paralysis, followed by oculomotor nerve and abducent nerve paralysis.

Third: in the late stage (coma stage), the above symptoms gradually worsened, from unconsciousness, semi coma to coma. Clonic or tonic seizures occur frequently. The child was extremely emaciated with a boat shaped abdomen. Metabolic disorder of water and electrolyte often occurs. Finally, the brain hernia caused by the sharp increase of intracranial pressure resulted in the paralysis of respiratory and cardiovascular motor center and died.

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We can see that children with meningitis can be divided into different periods, which means that children show different symptoms in each period. General children's body will be particularly thin, with these precursors, parents can find the child's disease very early, so as to let the child receive treatment as soon as possible.