MENINGITIS – CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, PREVENTION

Meningitis— infectious etiology, inflammatory processes of the brain and spinal cord. Clinical signs of meningitis include neck stiffness (contraction of the neck muscles, the patient’s head is thrown back and it is difficult for it to return to its normal position), severe headache, body hyperthermia, impaired consciousness, and increased sensitivity to irritants of the voice and lungs of the hands. Meningitis appears as a primary form in response to infection of the membrane or as a secondary form resulting from complications of other diseases. Meningitis is a disease with a high mortality rate, disability of patients, incurable disorders and organ dysfunction.