My Learning Resource Project is on Meningitis. In this project, you will learn the types, causes, symptoms, diagnosing, treating and prognosis of Meningitis with a brief history.
The first reports of Meningitis originated in Geneva in 1805. By 1887 Scientists identified the cause as Neisseria meningitides.
What is Meningitis? Meningitis is the inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord. When the meninges, the protective membrane around the brain and spinal cord, become infected is what causes meningitis. There are many types of meningitis such as bacterial, viral, fungal, parasitic, amebic and non-infectious. The two most common forms of meningitis are bacterial and viral.
Bacterial Meningitis is very serious and potentially …show more content…
This too may be fatal but less severe than bacterial meningitis. People with weak immune systems and babies less than 1 month old are most likely to have severe illness to viral meningitis. From late spring to fall in the United States is when non-polio enteroviruses are the most common and only a small number of people will develop meningitis. Viruses that may cause meningitis is measles, herpesviruses, influenza, mumps, West Nile virus and Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis virus. It only spreads through close contact with a person who has viral meningitis. The most common symptoms in babies are irritability, fever, poor eating, sleepiness or trouble waking up from sleep and lethargy. Common symptoms in adults are like babies but also headache, stiff neck, sensitivity to bright light, nausea and lack of appetite. People with viral meningitis usually get better with 7-10 days. For a doctor to diagnose they need to draw a few different tests such as swabbing your nose and throat or rectum, taking some blood or drawing fluid from around your spinal cord. There is no specific treatment for viral meningitis. Antibiotics do not help viral infections but there is an antiviral medicine if you have contracted meningitis by the herpesvirus and influenza. In order to prevent viral meningitis wash your hands often with soap and water, avoid close contact such as
The first reports of Meningitis originated in Geneva in 1805. By 1887 Scientists identified the cause as Neisseria meningitides.
What is Meningitis? Meningitis is the inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord. When the meninges, the protective membrane around the brain and spinal cord, become infected is what causes meningitis. There are many types of meningitis such as bacterial, viral, fungal, parasitic, amebic and non-infectious. The two most common forms of meningitis are bacterial and viral.
Bacterial Meningitis is very serious and potentially …show more content…
This too may be fatal but less severe than bacterial meningitis. People with weak immune systems and babies less than 1 month old are most likely to have severe illness to viral meningitis. From late spring to fall in the United States is when non-polio enteroviruses are the most common and only a small number of people will develop meningitis. Viruses that may cause meningitis is measles, herpesviruses, influenza, mumps, West Nile virus and Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis virus. It only spreads through close contact with a person who has viral meningitis. The most common symptoms in babies are irritability, fever, poor eating, sleepiness or trouble waking up from sleep and lethargy. Common symptoms in adults are like babies but also headache, stiff neck, sensitivity to bright light, nausea and lack of appetite. People with viral meningitis usually get better with 7-10 days. For a doctor to diagnose they need to draw a few different tests such as swabbing your nose and throat or rectum, taking some blood or drawing fluid from around your spinal cord. There is no specific treatment for viral meningitis. Antibiotics do not help viral infections but there is an antiviral medicine if you have contracted meningitis by the herpesvirus and influenza. In order to prevent viral meningitis wash your hands often with soap and water, avoid close contact such as