How to prevent meningitis better?

Meningitis is a disease caused by infection, usually bacteria or viruses. Bacterial meningitis needs to be treated as soon as possible, otherwise it is very easy to die, and death will occur within a few hours. It is a terrible disease. Viral meningitis will also leave many sequelae. It can be seen that meningitis is very harmful to the human body, so prevention work must be done well. So, how to prevent meningitis?

1. Discover patients early and isolate and treat them on the spot.

2. During the epidemic, we should carry out health publicity, avoid large gatherings and group activities as much as possible, do not bring children to public places, and wear masks when going out.

3. Drug prevention: Sulfonamides are still used in China. Close contacts can use iodine pyrimethamine (SD), 2g/day for adults, divided into 2 doses and taken with an equal amount of sodium bicarbonate for 3 consecutive days; 100mg/kg per day for children. During an epidemic of meningococcal meningitis, anyone who has two of the following symptoms: ① fever with headache; ② mental depression; ③ acute pharyngitis; ④ bleeding of the skin and oral mucosa can be given a full course of sulfonamide treatment in sufficient doses, which can effectively reduce the incidence rate and prevent the epidemic. Rifampicin or minocycline is used for prevention abroad. Rifampicin 600 mg per day for 5 consecutive days. The daily dose for children aged 1 to 12 years is 10 mg/kg.

4. Vaccine prevention: Currently, groups A and C of capsular polysaccharide vaccines are widely used both at home and abroad. The protection rate of group A polysaccharide vaccine purified by ultracentrifugation was 94.9%, and the average antibody titer increased by 14.1 times after immunization. There are still people in China who use polysaccharide vaccines for "emergency" prevention. If the incidence of meningococcal disease in January and February is greater than 10/100,000, or the incidence is higher than the same period of the previous year, vaccination can be carried out among the population.

Bacterial meningitis is a life-threatening illness and should be treated immediately. Go to the emergency room immediately if symptoms occur.

The treatment of bacterial meningitis is mainly based on finding bacteria through cerebrospinal fluid smear and culture, selecting effective antibiotics based on drug sensitivity tests, and providing timely treatment to reduce the occurrence of sequelae. It is also necessary to treat high fever symptomatically, control convulsions, reduce intracranial pressure, relieve cerebral edema, and use hormones to reduce intracranial inflammatory adhesions.

Antibiotics are ineffective against viral meningitis and antiviral drugs should be added.

In order for patients to recover as quickly as possible, they should also pay attention to dietary taboos during treatment. Do not eat too much starch to avoid brain hypoxia. Do not eat canned processed foods. Such foods generally contain a lot of salt and preservatives, which will aggravate the condition. You can eat more alkaline foods, such as tofu, potatoes, radishes, etc., and you can also eat more beans.