How to treat severe meningitis

When people suffer from severe meningitis, they should go to the hospital in time to receive professional treatment and undergo various examinations to see which type of meningitis they have. Because different pathologies require different medications, antibiotics cannot be used indiscriminately. They must be used in combination with the condition of the disease. Only in this way can the treatment be effective. In addition, you can also pay more attention to air circulation, cooling down, etc. to cooperate with the treatment.

Cool down. You should cooperate with the doctor to carry out physical and drug cooling, and also lower the room temperature to ensure the room is quiet and the air is flowing smoothly. Pay attention to keeping the child's airway open, unbutton the collar, and clear the sputum in the airway in time to avoid airway obstruction causing cerebral hypoxia. For children with convulsions and epileptic seizures, a chopstick or tongue depressor wrapped in gauze or napkin should be placed between the upper and lower teeth to prevent tongue bite. Turn your child over frequently to prevent bedsores and other secondary infections.

Symptoms of encephalitis in infants and young children in the early stages include: drowsiness, fever, vomiting, refusal to eat, increased crying, and restless sleep. Older children may also experience: severe headaches, aversion to bright light and loud noises, muscle stiffness, especially in the neck, and occasionally coma or convulsions. The patient should be taken to a doctor immediately or to the nearest hospital for a "lumbar puncture" to detect the specific pathogen. Your doctor may also draw your child's blood for a tissue culture to identify the bacteria that caused the infection.

Encephalitis should be treated aggressively, and high-dose antibiotic therapy should be taken immediately even if test results are not yet available. If tests confirm viral meningitis, antibiotics can be stopped. Only painkillers are required and symptoms of infection usually subside within 5-14 days, depending on the virus. If bacterial meningitis is confirmed, antibiotics should be continued (and if necessary, a different drug may be used to kill the identified pathogen). Antibiotic treatment may need to continue for 10 days.