Does meningitis lumbar puncture pain

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Many people suffer from meningitis disease, often accompanied by fever symptoms, so this caused a lot of people's attention, the following to share with you meningitis low back pain.

Does meningitis lumbar puncture pain

First of all, suffering from meningitis and lumbar puncture, there will be some pain, but the time of pain is relatively short, so that the human body can tolerate a kind of pain.

Secondly, there may be a history of upper respiratory tract infection before the disease. Newborns and infants often have high fever, irritability, drowsiness, dyspnea, jaundice, etc., and then there may be convulsions, arcuate reflex and apnea, etc., but the nervous system performance is rare. The newborn may have a history of premature delivery, birth injury or maternal infection before the birth. In the early stage of physical examination, meningeal irritation signs may appear, such as stiff neck, positive Kernig sign and positive brudzinski sign. But the ankylosis of neck in infants is often not obvious, often manifested as fullness of anterior fontanel and angular arch.

Finally, purulent meningitis is a medical emergency. The treatment should be based on maintaining blood pressure and correcting shock. According to the characteristics of age and season, the effective antibiotics that can easily pass through the blood cerebrospinal fluid barrier should be selected, and then the antibiotics should be adjusted according to the results of bacterial culture and drug sensitivity test.

matters needing attention

Meningitis often occurs in children, so timely treatment is very necessary, usually do not let children play for a long time, let children rest as much as possible, and meningitis is very harmful to the brain, let children eat more green vegetables.