The symptoms of encephalitis caused by filariasis

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Meningitis is one of the most common brain diseases, meningitis can be divided into viral meningitis and non viral meningitis in clinic, of which the more serious is viral meningitis, which is also called "epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis" in clinic. What is the symptom of encephalitis caused by filariasis? Let's talk about it

The symptoms of encephalitis caused by filariasis

Patients usually show a sudden and explosive onset, with obvious systemic symptoms, mainly manifested as an increase in body temperature, high fever, chills, disturbance of consciousness, obvious headache, drowsiness or even coma, and disorientation. If the brain tissue is damaged, it can also cause seizures.

Meningeal irritation is a typical sign of acute meningitis. Because meningeal inflammation after infection, patients will appear a variety of meningeal irritation signs, such as neck stiffness, Kernig sign and brudzinski sign. However, if the patient is older or falls into a deep coma, the meningeal irritation sign can not be induced.

Patients can have headache, jet vomiting and edema of optic papilla, and even cause brain hernia in severe cases. In infants and children, because the cranial suture is not fully closed, with the increase of intracranial pressure, the skull will increase and the fontanelle will also expand.

matters needing attention

Even if the weather is very hot, the patients should go to outdoor activities in time, because during the illness, the patient's resistance is very poor, if not in time for exercise, it may lead to the disease becoming more and more serious, exercise can promote the body's blood circulation in time, can also help increase resistance in time.