Is purulent meningitis serious?

Septic meningitis is a very serious disease, caused by bacterial attack on the brain of the patient’s central nervous system infectious diseases, usually leads to high fever, body temperature can reach up to about 40 ℃. Patients also have obvious signs of increased intracranial pressure, such as severe headache, jet-like nausea, vomiting, optic papillae edema, patients also have cervical rigidity, positive meningeal irritation signs. Septic meningitis can lead to psychiatric symptoms, such as delirium, babbling, and seizures and convulsions. It can also lead to cognitive impairment, which manifests as intellectual decline, memory loss, and may lead to hemiparesis and cross-paresis of the limbs. In the treatment, it is necessary to choose sensitive antibiotics for the pathogenic bacteria at an early stage, and at the same time, it is also necessary to prevent the patient from developing infectious shock, and also to give the treatment of dehydration, lowering the cranial pressure as well as preventing brain herniation.