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Meningitis is an inflammation of the fluid and membranes (meninges) surrounding your brain and spinal cord.

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Three layers of membranes that cover and protect your brain and spinal cord. Dura mater, Pia mater, and Arachnoid.

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- Viral infections are the most common cause

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Meningitis - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, pathology

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Early meningitis symptoms may like flu.

Sudden high fever

Severe headache

Nausea or vomiting

Sensitivity to light

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Diagnosis

- Brudzinskis neck sign
- Kernig's sign
- Lumbar puncture
- PCR test

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Skipping vaccinations

Age

Compromised immune system -  AIDS, alcoholism, diabetes...

Living in a community setting

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antibiotics given directly into a vein

fluids given directly into a vein to prevent dehydration

oxygen through a face mask if there are any breathing difficulties

steroid medication to help reduce any swelling around the brain

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Most people who get mild viral meningitis usually recover completely in 7 to 10 days without treatment. Antiviral medicine may help people with meningitis caused by viruses such as herpesvirus and influenza. Antibiotics do not help viral infections, so they are not useful in the treatment of viral meningitis.

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Bacterial Meningitis can be treated with Antibiotics and with good hygiene.

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Untreated bacterial meningitis is almost always fatal. With treatment the risk of death is reduced.

In new-borns the risk of death with treatment is 20 to 30%, in older children it is around 2% with treatment. The death risk is higher for adults even with treatment at 19 to 37%. Many adults may go on to develop disabilities like deafness (14%) and memory loss (10%).

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- Education to caregiver/ patent/ family

- Good Hygiene

- Structured environment

- The therapist should create an environment that would ease the patient’s hypersensitivity to sensory input such as light or sound thus creating a structured environment to eliminate behavioral outbursts. Close monitoring of the vital signs will allow the therapist to gauge the patient's receptiveness to therapy.

- Aware of Brudzinskis neck sign and Kernig's sign when working with patient ROM

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Untreated Bacterial Meningitis be like…..

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- https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/meningitis/treatment/
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/22266-meninges
- https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/meningitis/symptoms-causes/syc-20350508

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Meninges are three membrane layers that cover and protect your brain and spinal cord. These meninges are the dura mater, arachnoid mater and pia mater.