According to MD, TV presenter Elena Malysheva and immunologist Andrei Prodeus, there is an easy way to detect meningitis in yourself or someone else.
Meningitis is an infectious inflammation of the meninges of the brain and spinal cord. It is accompanied by:
- intoxication,
- fever,
- high intracranial pressure syndrome,
- inflammatory changes in the CSF (cerebrospinal fluid).
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The main sign of meningitis is the inability to tilt the head to the chest, because the patient's brain function is disrupted and edema occurs.
—Unfortunately, the disease is so serious that even with timely treatment, a large percentage of patients have a chance of dying before 15 -20 percent and, unfortunately, almost half of people who have had an infection have complications throughout their lives, – the doctor said on the air of the Live Healthy! on Channel One.
Malysheva added that the onset of the disease can manifest itself as a common cold. The inability to tilt the head to the chest is called stiff neck.
—A person without meningeal symptoms will have their head tilted, a person who has symptoms of meningitis will not be able to bend their head due to spasm of the muscles of the neck and back of the head, — frommedics noted.
Clinical signs and symptoms of meningitis:
- severe headaches
- neck stiffness or neck pain
- high body temperature
- photophobia
- confusion, drowsiness, coma
- convulsions
- rash
- joint pain.
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Rospotrebnadzor clarified that the onset of the disease really looks like SARS: a headache, a fever, a runny nose, a sore throat. However, with meningitis, these symptoms are more acute; the headache is stronger and grows constantly due to the beginning of the edema. Patients describe it as splitting, bursting.
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