MENINGITIS
Disease information
MENINGITIS
Inflammation characterizes by of meninges, which they are the membranes that surround and protect to the brain and the
spinal
marrow and although it affects any age, is more frequent in greater
children
and people.
The type of
meningitis
has
a
direct relation with the age and are caused by diverse microorganisms that can be
bacteria
, virus or fungi, being
bacterial
the most frequent ones.
The viral
meningitis
is
a
benign
disease
, in contrast to the
bacterial
one that requires urgent and immediate treatment, since he is generally mortal.
In the
children
between the 2 months and the 5 years, B type predominates the acute
meningitis
caused by meningococo Haemophilus
influenza
(HIB) in the young people meningococo and the adults neumococo.
When the
meningitis
is not
bacterial
, it is denominated to him
aseptic
and the most frequent causes are caused by fungi like the Criptococo neoformans and when they are of viral
origin
, they are caused by enterovirus Coxsackie, echovirus and
herpes
. These
meningitis
most frequently appear by the end of
summer
and principles of
autumn
.
Very frequently the
infection
begins in other parts of the body, as in the lungs and the microorganism cause is taken by the sanguineous torrent towards meninges, reason why the
meningitis
appears after to have suffered other
diseases
like average
otitis
, that is the inflammation of the average ear,
tuberculosis
,
disease
of Lyme, sífilis,
leukemia
, linfoma,
AIDS
,
cerebral
cancer
or saturnismo, is to say poisoning by lead.
The
meningitis
produced by the Haemophilus bacterium influenzae B type, can be come up by means of the vaccine HIB, that is recommended to apply to the
children
and
children
both from months of age and in places in where there is epidemic or suspicion of dissemination of the
disease
.
All the forms of
meningitis
present / display symptoms and similar singos among them, the main ones are:
greater high Fever to 39°C.
intense
Headache
.
Cold.
Dolores
muscular
.
Rigidity of nape of the neck, that rare time appears in
children
.
Diminution of the conscience state.
Episodes of intense excitation.
intense Nauseas.
spontaneous
Vomit and very hard in spurt form.
The beginning of the
disease
usually is sudden and to quickly cause alterations of the conscience state that go from the somnolencia, confusion, stupor and comma.
IMPORTANT the content of this note is informative and it does not replace the medical diagnosis, reason why we do not become people in
charge
by the use of the information.
Related Products