Symptoms of acute meningitis in children

Acute meningitis in children refers to the sudden onset of acute central nervous system infection, and the infected part of the lesion is mainly in the meninges, including the soft meninges and arachnoid membranes. Patients in the clinical mainly manifested as a sudden onset of high fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, restlessness, convulsions, serious will lead to altered consciousness of the patient, manifested as lethargy, drowsiness and coma and other symptoms, may have the performance of the neck straight, must be timely treatment. Because if the disease progresses may jeopardize the patient’s life, or lead to patients with serious neurological sequelae. Acute meningitis in children is caused by an acute bacterial infection, and common causative bacteria include meningococcus, pneumococcus, and also Haemophilus influenzae. The main routes of transmission of bacterial meningitis include respiratory infections and bloodstream infections.