Is meningitis serious in children?

What is meningitis? Patients often ask such questions. Meningitis generally occurs mainly in children and can easily cause certain headaches, which will have a great adverse effect on the child's physical and mental health. Therefore, the editor recommends that everyone must pay attention to the development of the child. If there are long-term headaches, nausea, loss of appetite, etc., it is very likely to be meningitis. So is meningitis serious? The following is the editor’s analysis of meningitis.

Symptoms of meningitis

1. Children in the prodromal stage have symptoms such as fever, headache, myalgia, vomiting, and diarrhea.

2. The symptoms of encephalitis vary in severity, mainly manifested as neuropsychiatric abnormalities. Manifestations of neurological abnormalities include fever, headache, vomiting, drowsiness, coma, convulsions, etc. In severe cases, abnormal symptoms may occur in the cerebrum, hypothalamus, basal ganglia, brainstem, cerebellum and spinal cord. Mental abnormalities manifest as excitement, talkativeness, irritability, crying and laughing at random, insomnia, abnormal behavior, hallucinations, fantasies, or indifferent expression, silence, decreased activity, refusal to eat, poor orientation, memory loss, incontinence, etc.

3. Associated symptoms: Symptoms of corresponding viral infection occur before or simultaneously with the onset of encephalitis.

I don't know what kind of meningitis your child has. 1. Viral encephalitis can seriously harm children's health, affect their intellectual development, and leave sequelae of varying degrees. It can cause children to have memory loss, mental retardation, epilepsy or limb paralysis, etc.

However, most "viral encephalitis" can be cured through active treatment. The treatment effect depends on the body's resistance, the virulence of the virus, the course of the disease, medication, etc.

Epidemic meningitis is caused by meningococcal bacteria and is transmitted through the respiratory tract. The pathogen is located outside the meninges, the brain is not affected, and if treated in time, there are basically no sequelae.

complication:

1. When suffering from meningitis, purulent exudate can easily block narrow channels or cause adhesions, causing cerebrospinal circulation disorders and producing hydrocephalus. It is common in patients who are treated improperly or too late, especially in newborns and infants. Adhesive arachnoiditis often occurs in the foramen magnum, which can obstruct the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid; or adhesions formed by ventricular meningitis are common causes of obstructive hydrocephalus.

2. In addition to water and electrolyte disorders caused by vomiting, infrequent eating, etc., cerebral hyponatremia may also occur, with symptoms such as insomnia, convulsions, coma, edema, general weakness, low muscle tone in the limbs, and oliguria. Its occurrence mechanism is related to the infection affecting the posterior pituitary gland, causing excessive secretion of antidiuretic hormone and leading to water retention.

In fact, the main substantial harm of meningitis to the human body is that it can easily cause problems with the nerves in the brain, and in the most serious cases, it can easily lead to paralysis, which is very unhealthy for physical development. Antibiotics are needed to treat meningitis, which also affects the development of children. The most important thing is to pay attention to improving children's immunity.