How to detect pus meningitis early

Meningitis is a disease that can be encountered at any time of the year. The disease is common in children (especially children under 5 years old). Without early detection and timely treatment will leave sequelae such as deafness, dumbness, nerve damage .

Meningitis is common in children under 5 years old (Photo: Star) Doctor Nguyen Van Loc - Deputy Director of the National Hospital of Pediatrics said that the cause of pleurisy (VMNM) can be germ or virus, headed by Haemophilus Influenzae.

Meningitis: Need early hospitalization .

This type of bacteria causes 70% of cases of childhood meningitis. This disease usually occurs after an infection of the ear, nose and throat area, bacteria entering the meninges and causing VMN.

Besides, VMNM often enters the blood and follows the blood to the focal brain. The disease is common in children (especially children under 5 years old). However, older children and adults may also get VMNM. When the child shows signs of coryza, stiff neck, headache, high fever, vomiting into a hose, headache (with unspoken babies will shake his head back and forth when headache), bulging fontanel (with newborns) , children sleeping should be taken to a medical facility. Children under 3 months of age may not have a fever, but only show breast-feeding, crying or sleeping a lot.

Children with the disease are mostly aged 0-36 months. VMNM is transmitted through respiratory, nasal, saliva, need to isolate sick children. If not detected early and treated promptly. In case of late detection, even if the disease is treated, it still leaves complications such as deafness, paralysis, nervousness, dumbness, dumbness . If detected early, the child will return to normal after being treated cured.

In order to cure and without sequelae, it is necessary for children to be hospitalized early, use strong antibiotics and stay in hospital for many days. While viral meningitis is necessary, antibiotic treatment is required and the duration of treatment at the hospital only lasts 3 to 5 days.

Dr. Loc recommends that VMNM is a very dangerous disease and very expensive to treat, so prevention is very important. Parents can use the vaccine to prevent bacteria Haemophilus Influenzae, pneumococcus.

Even when there is a VMNM happening, parents can still send their children to vaccination because after 3 - 4 days after vaccination, the body has produced antibodies to prevent disease.

On the days of weather changes, to prevent VMNM disease, children should be kept warm, take good care of children at times when weather changes and especially when flu outbreak occurs.

Prevention is better than cure

Treatment should be promptly avoided to prevent children with prolonged nasopharyngitis as well as treatment as soon as the child is drooling. If the child shows signs of flu, fever should be taken to the hospital for immediate treatment. Doctors also note that parents have one thing: Japanese VMNM and Japanese encephalitis are two different diseases. So even though the Japanese encephalitis vaccine was vaccinated, the child could still be VMN.

Vaccination can be started for children at 2-3 months of age or any time in children under 5 years of age according to the following schedule: Children from 2 months to 6 months inject 3 doses each dose 1 month apart, possibly booster at 18 months. Children from 7 months to 11 months inject 2 doses at 1 month interval, can be re-vaccinated at 18 months. Children from 12 to 14 months receive 1 dose and repeat 1 dose at 18 months. Children aged 15-59 months receive a single dose.