Symptoms of purulent meningitis in children

Children's physical health is what parents are most concerned about. Children's disease resistance and immunity are not as strong as adults, so children are more vulnerable to diseases. Parents must pay attention to helping children prevent some common diseases in daily life. Purulent meningitis is a very harmful disease that is easy to occur in children. Below we introduce the symptoms of purulent meningitis in children.

1. Some cases had predisposing factors before the onset of the disease, such as otitis media or upper respiratory tract infection, and some used immunosuppressants or had other immunodeficiency conditions. Abnormal neonatal delivery, such as premature rupture of membranes, prolonged labor, surgical delivery, or maternal infection in late pregnancy.

2. Signs of acute infection: fever, headache, vomiting, impaired consciousness and convulsions, etc. White blood cell and neutrophil counts increased.

3. Signs of meningeal irritation: including neck stiffness, positive Kobryn sign, positive Brudini sign, etc.

4. Increased intracranial pressure in infants and young children is often manifested as increased tension or even bulging of the anterior fontanelle and increased head circumference.

5. Newborns often lack typical symptoms. Their body temperature may be normal or not elevated. They mainly show general symptoms of severe infection such as not eating, not crying, and not moving. Convulsions are also atypical. Some babies stare, scream, etc.

6. If the lesion is localized, there are often localized localizing signs. The lesions erode the pyramids, often with pyramidal tract signs.

7. Patients who have received antibiotic treatment often have atypical symptoms and are easily misdiagnosed, so detailed examinations should be performed.

In the above article, we introduced a very harmful children's disease, that is, purulent meningitis. We know that purulent meningitis not only causes symptoms such as fever and headache in patients, but also causes impaired consciousness in patients. The above article introduces the symptoms of purulent meningitis in children in detail.