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Meningitis Symptoms - Meningitis Research Foundation - 1 views

www.meningitis.org/symptoms

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  • first symptoms
  • ever, vomiting, headache and feeling
  • more specific to meningitis
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  • Red ticks
  • imb pain, pale skin, and cold hands and feet often appear earlier than the rash, neck stiffness, dislike of bright lights and confusion.
  • babies:
  • Tense or bulging soft spo
  • Refusing to feed
  • Irritable
  • less t
  • moaning cry
  • stiff body
  • jerky movements,
  • floppy
  • lifeless
  • Fever is often absent
  • three months of age
  • high pitched
  • Check the entire body.
  • iny red or brown pin-prick marks
  • larger red or purple blotches and blood blisters.
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Meningitis | About Bacterial Meningitis Infection | CDC - 5 views

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  • e most people with meningitis recover
  • 2003–2007
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  • brain damage, hearing loss, or learning disabilities.
  • several pathogens
  • in the United State
  • Haemophilus influenzae (most often caused by type b, Hib), Streptococcus pneumoniae, group B Streptococcus, Listeria monocytogenes, and Neisseria meningitidis.
  • 4,100 cases of bacterial meningitis,
  • 500 deaths,
  • complications
  • increase
  • Infants are at higher risk for bacterial meningitis than people in other age groups.
  • people of any age are at risk.
  • diseases, medications, and surgical procedures
  • spread more quickly where larger groups of people
  • College freshmen living in residence halls and military personnel
  • increased
  • Certain medical condition
  • Community setting
  • Working with meningitis-causing pathogens
  • Microbiologists
  • Travel
  • preventive antibiotics
  • not as contagious as viruses that cause the common cold or the flu.
  • close or long contact with a sick person in the same household or daycare center
  • direct contact with a patient's oral secretions
  • boyfriend or girlfriend)
  • (e.g., by kissing) of respiratory and throat secretions (e.g., saliva or mucus).
  • higher risk of getting disease
  • Healthy people can carry the bacteria in their nose or throat without getting sick. Rarely, these bacteria can invade the body and cause disease. Most people who ‘carry’ the bacteria never become sick.
  • Nausea, Vomiting, Increased sensitivity to light (photophobia), and Altered mental status (confusion).
  • within 3-7 days after exposure.
  • higher risk
  • abies younger than 1 month
  • may be absent or difficult to notice.
  • samples of blood or cerebrospinal fluid (near the spinal cord)
  • for the entire family if a family member develops severe Hib infection and there’s a high-risk person in the house.
  • s soon as possible
  • below 15%, although the risk remains higher among young infants and the elderly.
  • complete the recommended vaccine schedule.
  • treated effectively with antibiotics.
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    Notes on Meningitis/ post one /CDC
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