How does meningitis manifest and after what time does it occur?

Meningitis can strike everyone. And it is not necessary for this to go without a hat in the winter, you can just talk to a sick ARVI or other viral disease or not to treat purulent otitis or sinusitis.

Children are most susceptible to the disease, immunitywhich is still just weak, and the body can not resist many viruses. Also, adults who eat or drink from common utensils with a sick virus disease get sick, just talk to them or "swallow" a virus that got into unboiled water or milk. In this case, an adult will become more likely to get sick if his body is weakened by hypothermia, lack of sleep, constant stress, or prolonged illness. Basically, more often people with low immunity can feel on themselves how meningitis manifests.

Incubation period of the disease

The disease can be caused by a hugethe number of different microbes, each of which is not just to get into the human body, but to overcome the protection from the barrier of cells, which protects the brain and its shells. Therefore, it is impossible to say exactly what time meningitis is manifested. On average, the incubation period of the disease is about a week (5-12 days).

How does meningitis manifest?

The disease begins acutely. In some cases, the symptoms that point directly to the inflammation of the meninges precede:

• conjunctivitis;
• a sore throat;
• the appearance of a cold;
• temperature increase;
• diarrhea;
• rash: meningococcal meningitis is characterized by the appearance of dark spots that do not disappear if they are pressed with glass, for enterovirus - reddish small spots.

How does meningitis appear later, what symptoms will indicate exactly this disease?

1. Increased body temperature.
2. Nausea.
3. Vomiting, after which there is no relief.
4. Headache. She is:

• strong;
• is localized in the temporomandibular or frontal region, less often in the entire head;
• strengthens if you stand up, turn your head, and also after a bright light or loud sounds;
• it is badly removed by anaesthetising preparations.

Later there are such symptoms:

• inadequacy, aggressiveness;
• convulsions, in which a person loses consciousness;
• drowsiness until the patient can not be awakened;
• strabismus.

A patient with meningitis is unlikely to becomputer or watch a movie. He relieves his condition, lying on his side, with his knees bent. Refuses to eat, sometimes drink. Asks to turn off the light and do not turn on the sound. This is the picture of purulent meningitis.

And how is serous meningitis manifested?

Symptoms are the same, but usually they are lessare expressed in terms of intensity. For this meningitis, unless it is caused by herpes simplex viruses, cytomegalovirus or Epstein-Barr virus, the appearance of strabismus, inadequate behavior, seizures is not typical. At the forefront in this disease is precisely the headache, accompanied by fever.

How does meningitis appear in infants?

Kids can not complain that they have a headache. They express it this way:

• they cry monotonously for a long time;
• they refuse to go to their hands;
• lie, threw back his head and tucked his legs to his chest;
• refuse to eat and drink;
• there may be convulsions;
• belch and even tear "fountain";
• it is noticeable that the large fontanel (a supple place between the bones of the skull) is tense, pulsating and bulging.
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