Viral meningitis

Meningitis has a great impact on the human brain. After this type of disease occurs, the patient must receive timely treatment, otherwise the meningitis will become more serious, which will make it very difficult to treat. So how to treat viral meningitis? The common treatment method is medication. Drug treatment is very helpful in controlling the patient's disease and prevents the patient's disease from continuing to develop.

Many people do not know much about the treatment methods for viral meningitis, so they make blind choices when it comes to treatment. This requires a good understanding of the causes of viral meningitis so that they know how to best treat it.

Viral meningitis:

Causes

Enterovirus is mainly transmitted through the fecal-oral route, and a few are transmitted through respiratory secretions. Most viruses cause initial infection in the lower gastrointestinal tract. There are special receptors on intestinal cells that bind to enterovirus. The virus passes through the intestinal blood, produces viremia, and then enters the cerebrospinal fluid through the choroid plexus to invade the meninges, causing inflammatory changes in the meninges.

Clinical manifestations:

1. The disease is most prevalent in summer and autumn, but can occur all year round in tropical and subtropical areas. It is more common in children, but adults can also suffer from it. Most of the cases have an acute onset and are characterized by systemic poisoning symptoms of viral infection such as fever, headache, photophobia, myalgia, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, diarrhea, and general fatigue, and may also have signs of meningeal irritation. The course of the disease usually lasts more than 1 week in children and 2 weeks or longer in adults.

2. Clinical manifestations may vary depending on the patient's age, immune status, and virus type and subtype. For example, young children may experience fever, vomiting, rash, etc., while neck stiffness is mild or even absent. Hand-foot-mouth syndrome often occurs in enterovirus 71 meningitis, and nonspecific rash is common in echovirus 9 meningitis.

Through the above introduction, we have a good understanding of the cause of viral meningitis, so when treating, we also need to choose a treatment method that is suitable for the patient. This will be of great help to the patient's disease, so that the patient's disease will not continue to develop, which is conducive to the patient's disease being well treated.