Epidemic meningitis
Epidemic meningitis, also known as epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis (Epidemic meningitis), referred to as meningitis. Winter and spring season is the high incidence of the disease, the incidence peak generally appear in the annual March to April. Such as early detection, early treatment, the disease cure rate is higher. Epidemic meningitis, is caused by meningococcal acute infectious diseases. The patient initially showed fever, cough, runny nose and other cold symptoms, and the general cold is not easy to distinguish. Some children in the upper respiratory tract infection was controlled, if not control, bacteria into the blood circulation, the formation of bacteremia. At this time the performance of high fever, nausea, vomiting, skin petechiae, ecchymosis, mainly in the shoulder, elbow, buttocks and other vulnerable parts. Pathogens eventually invade the meninges, the development of meningitis, meningeal irritation and increased intracranial pressure, fulminant meningitis due to adrenal cortical bleeding, there may be acute adrenal insufficiency symptoms. Group C epidemic meningitis is caused by the spread of C meningococcal bacteria. Infection to high fever as the first symptom, accompanied by headache, body pain, sore throat, cough, etc., some patients with skin ecchymosis, petechiae, neck stiffness, jet vomiting and so on. ...