The common symptoms of bacterial meningitis are fever, vomiting, severe and persistent headache, stiff and painful neck, confusion, unconsciousness, and seizures. One of apparent signs is that people who has infected are inability to lower their chin to chest due to stiffness in the neck. Symptoms can be varied depends on age as well. In infant or young children, they experience fever, cold, unusual cry, rapid breathing, or grunting, refusing food, and vomiting. In adults, besides those symptoms mentioned above, irritability, confusion, increasing drowsiness can be occurred. And seizures and stroke are also found in symptoms. These symptoms happen fast that they can be within 24 hours.
Risk factors
Risk factors of Bacterial Meningitis can increase due to different ages, community setting, medical conditions, pathogens, and travel. Infants are more risk of having meningitis compare to other ages. Bacteria can be spreader easily in the crowds, which there are a lot of people are gathering. Traveling to counties that are undeveloped, uncleaned, and not supported in sanitation.
Complications
Bacterial Meningitis side effects varied in short or long term. However, some cases lead permanent disabilities. Patients experience brain damage …show more content…
The signs and symptoms of infection are important that a doctor checks the head, ears, throat, the spine, and the skin. Additional diagnostic tests are blood cultures, imaging of the brains and spinal cord, spinal tap (lumber puncture). In blood cultures show that it is able to identify specific bacteria. Imaging includes CT scan, MR, X-rays shows infection areas that associates with meningitis. In addition, for some patients who are determined with bacterial meningitis, Spinal tap, which is lumber puncture is applied. It requires patient’s cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to search glucose level which relates white blood cell count and
Risk factors
Risk factors of Bacterial Meningitis can increase due to different ages, community setting, medical conditions, pathogens, and travel. Infants are more risk of having meningitis compare to other ages. Bacteria can be spreader easily in the crowds, which there are a lot of people are gathering. Traveling to counties that are undeveloped, uncleaned, and not supported in sanitation.
Complications
Bacterial Meningitis side effects varied in short or long term. However, some cases lead permanent disabilities. Patients experience brain damage …show more content…
The signs and symptoms of infection are important that a doctor checks the head, ears, throat, the spine, and the skin. Additional diagnostic tests are blood cultures, imaging of the brains and spinal cord, spinal tap (lumber puncture). In blood cultures show that it is able to identify specific bacteria. Imaging includes CT scan, MR, X-rays shows infection areas that associates with meningitis. In addition, for some patients who are determined with bacterial meningitis, Spinal tap, which is lumber puncture is applied. It requires patient’s cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to search glucose level which relates white blood cell count and