What are the symptoms of acute viral dermatitis

Viral dermatitis is a relatively common skin disease. Many viral dermatitis are contagious. Once an acute disease occurs, it will not only cause unbearable pain to the patient, but may even endanger the patient's life. When the disease occurs, it often causes symptoms of high fever and convulsions. The patient will become drowsy and lethargic, and may even suffer from muscle spasms, leading to tonic attacks, etc.

1. Fever, recurrent seizures

Most viral dermatitis symptoms include fever, repeated seizures, varying degrees of impaired consciousness, and increased blood pressure. Viral dermatitis convulsions are mostly generalized, but they may also be focal, and in severe cases, they may present as a persistent state of convulsion.

2. Lethargy and drowsiness

The children may have varying degrees of consciousness changes, such as coma, deep coma, and even decorticate state. If irregular breathing rhythm or unequal pupils occur, the possibility of high-pressure complication viral mesothelioma should be considered. If the skin lesions mainly affect the base of the frontal lobe and the temporal lobe limbic system, the patient will mainly show mental and emotional abnormalities, such as mania, hallucinations, aphasia, and orientation, calculation and memory disorders.

3. With fever or without fever.

Various viral dermatitis can cause such manifestations, but those caused by herpes simplex virus are the most serious. Inclusion bodies containing viral antigen particles are easily seen in the nerve cells of this viral dermatitis, which is sometimes called inclusion body viral dermatitis. It is often accompanied by convulsions and coma, and has a high mortality rate.

4. Myoclonic or tonic seizures

Some lesions mainly affect the motor area of ​​the frontal cortex. The main clinical manifestation of viral dermatitis is repeated seizures, with or without fever. Most of them are general or focal tonic-clonic or clonic seizures, and a few are myoclonic or tonic seizures. Viral dermatitis may persist.

Others include those with hemiplegia, monoplegia, quadriplegia or various involuntary movements as the main manifestations. Many patients may have multiple types of symptoms mentioned above at the same time. Positive pathological signs appear when the lesion involves the pyramidal tract.

Viral dermatitis usually lasts 2-3 weeks. Most of them recovered completely, but a few were left with sequelae such as epilepsy, limb paralysis, and mental retardation. If you have viral dermatitis, you must seek treatment early.