Aseptic meningitis
Disease information
Aseptic meningitis
Aseptic Meningitis
.
Inflammation of meninges (fine membranes that covers the brain and the
spinal
marrow) She is contagious in some cases.
Unlike
meningítis
classic (CONNECTION) this does not present / display pus in the
liquid
that covers the brain.
It affects both sexes, to any age.
Causes.
Virus of diverse types, including the one of
polio
.
Fungi, including the ferments.
Reaction - surely an answer autoinmune - after certain virales
diseases
, like the
measles
.
Signs and symptoms.
Fever.
Headache
.
Irritability.
Sensitivity of the eyes to the light.
Tortícolis.
Vomits.
Confusion, lethargy and modorra.
Factors of risk.
Recent, rubeola
measles
or diverse types of
influenza
.
Treatment with inmunosupresores, like in the
cancer
, or after
a
transplant of organ.
Bad feeding.
Recent
disease
that
has
diminished the resistance.
Epidemic of
meningitis
. This
disease
becomes more virulent when extending of person to person.
Prevention.
Inmunícese against all the virus for which they exist bovine.
Diagnosis and treatment.
Sanitary precautions.
Medical treatment.
Hospitalization in serious cases.
General measures.
There are special trainings no aside from which they are specified in the other sections.
Medication.
When the
aseptic
meningitis
the cause
a
virus, is no medication.
The defenses of the body usually cure it (although the virus of
polio
can cause permanent damages)
If the
meningitis
the cause
a
fungus, their
doctor
will be able to prescribe fungicida medication to him like anfoterecina B.
It does not take aspirin for the pain, could cause hemorrhages to him.
Activity
.
Keep bed in
a
semi - dark room.
Return to its
normal
activities as soon as they improve the symptoms.
Diet.
There is no special diet. Drink of 6 to 8
glasses
of
liquid
to the day, although it does not desire to him.
Systems of diagnosticos.
Observation of the symptoms.
File and physical examination by
a
doctor
.
Analysis, as
red
globule
count and study of the cerebroespinal
liquid
, by means of lumbar punción.
Complications.
Permanent damage to the brain (rarely)
Muscular
worsening or paralysis (in cases of poliomielitis)
Prognosis.
Most of the patients recovers of
a
viral
meningitis
without
specific
therapy - not like in the
bacterial
meningitis
, where the treatment with antibiotics is necessary to save the patient.
To call to the
doctor
if.
It
has
symptoms of
aseptic
meningitis
.
New symptoms arise inexplicable. The medication for the treatment can produce indirect effect.
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