Symptoms of acute viral meningitis?

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My relative's child is more than six years old this year. Since childhood, her physical fitness has been relatively poor, and it's easy to get sick. Last week, my wife and I took the relative's child out to play, and we didn't know if the child was suffering from cold. As a result, the child began to have high fever and vomiting the next day after he came home, After taking the medicine, the situation didn't improve much, which made us feel very bad. Symptoms of acute viral meningitis? Now let me tell you something.

Symptoms of acute viral meningitis?

Viral meningitis is usually acute onset, some patients in the early stage of the disease will appear similar to upper respiratory tract infection and gastrointestinal dysfunction symptoms, followed by meningeal irritation symptoms, often headache, fever, nausea, vomiting, neck stiffness.

With the aggravation of the disease, there will even be varying degrees of fatigue, photophobia, or numbness of hands and feet. When coma, pathological reflex or focal neurological symptoms and signs appear, it indicates that the lesion has involved the brain parenchyma. Viral meningitis is usually benign, with a course of 2-3 weeks or as short as a few days.

If the patient is due to intestinal virus infection caused by the disease attack, the patient's skin layer may also appear rash signs, can also be blood stasis, herpes virus infection occurs when the skin or genital herpes. Genital herpes often occurs in patients with herpes simplex meningitis (HM), but also before the onset.

matters needing attention

It is suggested that once the patient has a persistent fever, he should go to a regular medical institution for treatment as soon as possible. However, during the treatment, it is suggested that the patient's diet should be light and avoid eating greasy food.