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Meningitis affects both children and adults, but in children the consequences can sometimes be fatal. The cause is infection by the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis. Occurs in the form of meningitis, inflammation of the meninges, ie, either in the form of sepsis (blood poisoning). Sepsis is a rare, but dangerous and often leaves lasting effects. In children, the second to 5 Neisseria age is the most common cause of meningitis.
Depending on the season, 5 to 20 percent of people have the nasal mucosa listed bacteria, but since it is not diseased. These are called. healthy carriers. They meningococcal their secretions from the mouth or respiratory tract can infect another person. From the environment of patients have as many as 65 percent of the people present in the germ mucosa of the nose or throat. In order to infect a healthy man, he needs close contact with carriers or sick. Cause deflection out of the body quickly and is difficult post nasal drip to flow through the air, such as the causative post nasal drip agent of influenza.
In contact with bacteria sick people with reduced immunity, people who are anemic, malnourished or living in cramped spaces. Because the disease is more common during the winter months when children are imprisoned in kindergarten post nasal drip or school.
Incubation lasts for three to four days, and can vary from two to ten days. Signs of the disease include: fever very severe headache nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light stiffness in the neck muscles back pain
Specific symptom of infection is that the affected child can not touch the beard knees. Also interesting is the position of the head of a sick child. It flings his head back and his head literally "drill" which lies on a pillow.
When young children first sign of the disease may be spasms of the entire body musculature with loss of consciousness. You may be convex or tense fontanelle. It is soft and elastic rhomboid nesraštenih space between the bones in the head. General poor state of the child with a tense fontanelle is cause for immediate hospitalization and the beginning of the diagnostic process.
The most important test for the detection or exclusion of the disease is the puncture canal of the spinal cord, and taking fluid analysis (fluid in which they are immersed brain and spinal post nasal drip cord and that it protects post nasal drip and nourishes and removes waste products). The liquor can easily prove cause and is determined by the type of agent therapy.
If in addition to the above symptoms found on the skin and tiny purple bleeding, then it comes to signs of sepsis post nasal drip and the prognosis is more serious. In case of doubt with skin changes can make the experiment a glass cup. The skin is pressed glass cup and if small bruises do not fade, it is about meningococcal bleeding. All other skin rashes poblijedjet be pressurized glass.
Patients must be treated in a hospital and be under intensive medical supervision. The sooner post nasal drip treatment begins, the greater the chance for cure. The percentage of mortality in young children is up 8 percent.
In 10 percent of cases, the disease can cause long term consequences such as deafness, blindness, mental or neurological changes. Child after meningitis may remain paralyzed, have lasting convulsions that are centrally conditioned. Infection with meningitis can spread to the whole brain tissue. Healthy people can protect against disease by vaccination or prevention.
Each meningococcal disease reported to the Department of Public Health. Expert teams from the Institute visiting all the people who were in close contact with the patient (family, nursery school post nasal drip groups, etc.) and gives them chemoprophylaxis with antibiotics to protect post nasal drip them from infection. Chemoprophylaxis is not a healthy carriers or their environment. There is also the possibility of vaccination.
Given that it is a subspecies of the bacteria, the vaccine is adapted to the kind for which there is most likely to affect the population. The most common types A and C, and generally engage preschoolers and teenagers.
In the world of the recommended vaccination of children against post nasal drip second to 18 year of life. Protection post nasal drip against infection was achieved in 90 percent procijepljenih. Only 10 percent procijepljenih has some minor side effects to the vaccine
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