Meningitis - the first signs, causes and treatment of the disease. How passes the jet miningitis?

Meningitis is an acute disease caused by infection and affecting the membranes of 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 a 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, such as a sharp, very severe headache and too high sensitivity to light, should alert the doctor and his patient. Often, along with such signs, there is spasmodic nuchal muscles. In this case, the patient can not reach the thorax by the chin itself. Attempting the doctor 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 experience a rise in body temperature, a feeling of chills, aches in joints, intense sweating, photophobia, high sensitivity to extraneous sounds, a change in consciousness that is accompanied by communication with fictional characters.

In time, the treatment started gives a guarantee for a person's recovery. Therefore, when the first symptoms of the disease occur, you should immediately seek help from a doctor. Special attention should be paid to the signs of meningitis in children, since they are the ones who endure this infection much worse than adults.

Causes of the disease

Meningococcal bacillus is the main causative agent of meningitis. 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.

Reactive minigitis is a dangerous form of the disease

Often reactive minings are confused with simple respiratory 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 can become a hopeless patient, and in a small child this happens during the day.

The jet minigitis proceeds 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 reactive meningitis?

To begin treatment of a reactive meningitis it is necessary immediately and only in stationary branch of 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, can cope with this dangerous infection: to date, the death rate from meningitis is only 10 percent.

Antibacterial therapy of reactive meningitis is based on the empirical use of medications because it is not always possible for doctors to determine the type of pathogen precisely and quickly. The course of treatment with antibacterial drugs depends on the characteristics of the course of the disease and the patient's condition.