Meningitis - the first signs, causes and treatment of the disease. How passes a jet miningitis?
Meningitis is an acute disease caused byinfection and damaging the spinal cord and brain. This disease can affect people of any age. However, most often this infection infects people at risk - premature babies and patients who previously had injuries to the back, head or lesions of the central nervous system. Depending on the type of pathogen, meningitis happens: viral, bacterial, fungal. There are meningitis caused by protozoa. The most dangerous form of the disease is the jet miningitis (fulminant).
The first signs of meningitis
Despite the current level of development of medical science, meningitis to this day remains a disease that requires immediate medical attention.
For this reason, the first signs of meningitis, suchas a sharp, very strong headache and too high sensitivity to light, should alert the doctor and his patient. Often, along with such signs, spasms of the occipital muscles are observed. In this case, the patient can not reach the chest by himself. The doctor's attempt to bend the person's head, as a rule, leads to the appearance of sharp and severe pain and simultaneous bending of the hands and feet.
Also, the patient may have an increasebody temperature, a feeling of chills, aches in joints, intense sweating, photophobia, high sensitivity to extraneous sounds, a change in consciousness, which is accompanied by communication with fictional characters.
In time, the treatment started gives a guarantee forrecovery of a person. Therefore, when the first symptoms of the disease occur, you should immediately seek medical help from a doctor. Special attention should be paid to the signs of meningitis in children, since they are the ones who suffer this infection much worse than adults.
Causes of the disease
Meningococcal bacillus is the main pathogenmeningitis. In addition, the causative agents of this disease can be enterovirus infection and some viruses. In addition, meningitis can develop as a complication after such diseases as parotitis, measles, and rubella. The risk group also includes patients suffering from sinusitis or otitis, suffering from abscesses or having furuncles in the neck and face.
A reactive mingitis is a dangerous form of the disease
Frequently, a reactive mini-tongue is confused with a simplerespiratory disease. Remember that the symptoms of this type of disease are fleeting. If you do not start treatment on time, then literally in 1-3 days an adult person can turn into a hopeless patient, and in a small child this happens during the day.
The jet minigitis occurs with the following symptoms:
- body temperature about 40 degrees;
- fever;
- severe pain in the throat;
- Stiffness (tension, spasm) of the occipital muscles;
- severe nausea or frequent seizures, vomiting;
- violations of the facial and oculomotor muscles;
- In some cases, partial paralysis or deafness may develop.
How to treat jet meningitis?
To begin treatment of a reactive meningitis followsimmediately and only in the inpatient ward of the hospital! The doctor prescribes complex therapy, which includes the use of corticosteroids and antibacterial drugs, as well as supporting procedures. Rapid diagnosis and modern methods of medicine, as a rule, allow to cope with this dangerous infection: for today the death rate from a meningitis makes only 10 percent.
Antibacterial therapy of reactive meningitisis based on the empirical appointment of medications because it is not always possible for doctors to accurately and quickly determine the type of pathogen. The course of treatment with antibacterial drugs depends on the characteristics of the course of the disease and the patient's condition.
