Symptoms of encephalitis

There are many types of common diseases, and treating them also requires good methods. However, it should be noted that it is crucial to understand all aspects of the disease before treating it, so that you can know what kind of treatment method is the best choice so that the disease can be controlled. What are the symptoms of encephalitis? Many people do not know much about encephalitis and do not know how to treat it best.

So what are the symptoms of encephalitis? This type of disease has obvious symptoms, so there are unique treatment methods to improve the patient's condition and control the patient's physical illness.

Symptoms of encephalitis:

1. Systemic toxic blood symptoms

Fever, headache, body aches, nausea, vomiting, fatigue. A few patients have hemorrhagic rash and myocarditis symptoms.

2. Neurological symptoms

Impaired consciousness, meningeal irritation signs. Flaccid paralysis of the cervical and scapular muscles may occur, causing the head to droop and the arms to be unable to be raised, resulting in the person tottering and helpless. Involvement of cranial nerves and lower limbs is rare. Paralysis can be recovered in 2 to 3 weeks, and about half of the muscles will atrophy. Mild cases may have no obvious neurological symptoms.

Because the location and severity of the lesions vary, the manifestations are varied. Diffuse encephalitis often starts with general discomfort, followed by coma and convulsions, accompanied by fever; brainstem encephalitis often has symptoms such as facial nerve paralysis, choking, dysphagia, limb numbness, weakness and (or) oculomotor nerve paralysis, pseudobulbar palsy, etc. Pseudotumor encephalitis often presents with headache, vomiting, poor limb movement or paralysis, aphasia, mental symptoms, and intracranial hypertension. At the same time, pay attention to the symptoms of the primary disease, such as mumps virus encephalitis accompanied by parotid gland swelling; herpes virus encephalitis with herpes on the skin, coxsackievirus and echovirus encephalitis may have rash, myocarditis, hand, foot and mouth disease, etc. If the lesion involves the meninges (meningoencephalitis), positive meningeal irritation signs will appear.

Through the above introduction, what are the symptoms of encephalitis? After this type of disease occurs, the body will become weak. Therefore, after these problems occur in life, timely treatment is also needed. This will be of great help to all aspects of oneself. Moreover, timely treatment of encephalitis will reduce the patient's condition, which will also reduce the treatment time.