Imagine putting your child to bed one night and thinking he or she is suffering from a case of the flu only to wake up in the morning to find him or her dead.
That’s the real situation some parents have found themselves their child suffering from spinal meningitis.
What is Spinal Meningitis?
Spinal meningitis [...]
Meningitis typically results from contagious infections. Meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes (meninges) and cerebrospinal fluid surrounding your brain and spinal cord, usually due to the spread of an infection. Depending on the cause of the infection, meningitis can resolve on its own in a couple of weeks — or it can be a [...]
Meningitis is caused by infection to meninges and cerebrospinal fluid. Usually children between the age of 15 and 24 are affected by this disease. Viral, bacterial or fungal infection can also cause meningitis. SymptomsHigh fever, headache, vomiting or nausea along with headache, difficulty to maintain eye contact or to concentrate in some thing, sleepiness, stiff neck, rashes on skin, seizures, l
Ante los nuevos casos de meningitis y por el temor de tantos padres, la nota de Infobae.com es muy útil para entender un poco más esta enfermedad, reconocer sus síntomas, saber por qué aparece en esta época del año, cuáles son las modalidades y si es necesario cerrar las escuelas con casos positivos de infección. “...A pesar de todo, niegan un brote de la enfermedad. Lo que hay que s
La meningitis se define en wikipedia como inflamación de las meninges o el daño por germenes, a nivel de de las envolturas y membranas que recubren el cerebro y la médula espinal. Es decir, cuando a las meninges y al líquido cefalorraquídeo llegan microorganismos, bien sean bacterias, virus, entre otros, éstos se multiplican y producen un daño o inflamación.
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(Chicago) There are new concerns over meningitis after two students died in the Austin neighborhood. Now, health officials want you to make sure your kids are protected. CBS 2's Pamela Jones reports.
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This is the 12th serial article about Treating common childhood illnesses, this time is about infectious diseases; about meningitis, next I'll post about another infectious diseases like; Diptheria, and scarlet fever. previous article about child infectious diseases; chickenpox, German Measles, Mumps, measles and Whooping Cough MENINGITIS Meningitis is inflammation of the meninges, the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. Meningitis can attack people of all age, but is most common in children. It is always a serious illness, and is generally caused by any of several bacteria, such as meningococus and those that cause pneumonia and tuberculosis. Tests have to be conducted in the laboratory to disting
It’s official: Starting in January, any University of South Florida student who moves into campus housing must be vaccinated against bacterial meningitis, the disease that killed a USF sophomore earlier this year.
USF President Judy Genshaft sent a letter over the Thanksgiving break to about 36,000 students, notifying them of the new policy. Genshaft, a mother of two, demanded the vaccine be made mandatory after Rachel Futterman’s September death, which also prompted the board that oversees Florida's 11 universities to examine vaccine policies statewide.
So far, USF is the first to make the vaccine mandatory for campus residents.
“Together we can make decisions to avoid another such tragedy,” Genshaft wrote. “Your wellness is our primary concern.”
Students who already have housing contracts through the spring are exempt for now, but will have to get the vaccine before signing any new contract. Genshaft’s letter urges all students to “take action now.”
Wednesday,
The student health directors for Florida's 11 public universities are recommending that all incoming students - not just those moving into dorms or campus Greek houses - be required to get the meningitis vaccine.
And while there should still be exemptions for religious or personal reasons, health directors said Wednesday they believe too many students are being granted waivers. Their recommendations come just days after a 19-year-old USF student died of bacterial meningitis.
USF officials can't disclose whether Rachel Futterman got her vaccine, but USF president Judy Genshaft wants to make it mandatory for all students, starting as early as January if the university has the authority to do so.
A Board of Governors committee is voting on the recommendations this afternoon, and if approved they'll go on to the full board during its meeting in Tallahassee tomorrow.
The protective membranes which cover the central nervous system get affected with some ineffective agents, injury, or some drugs.
These agents can cause inflammation of these membranes. This condition is called as meningitis. It is mainly due to the organism Neisseria meningitides.
Meningitis is a serious condition due to the proximity of the [...]
I don’t know if you guys read about this over the weekend, but it seems as if Peter Andre has meningitis and is hospitalized. For those of you who don’t know what that is, here’s a mini-def:Meningitis is the inflammation of the protective membranes covering the central nervous system, known collectively as the meninges. It [...]
According to The Sun, "Sick pop star Peter Andre has been told he has MENINGITIS — after days of agonising uncertainty. Glamour girl Jordan’s husband was ill for two weeks before being diagnosed with the serious brain bug. The pregnant model, 28, was spotted yesterday slipping through a hospital’s staff entrance as she dashed to Peter’s bedside. She has been visiting him daily since he was admitted last weekend. The Sun revealed yesterday that doctors had given Peter, 34, a brain scan — but it failed to find a problem. Eventually a lumbar puncture at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, showed he had viral meningitis. It is less dangerous than bacterial meningitis, which can kill. A close friend of the couple said: “Jordan has been sick with worry, but at least now they know what it is. Peter fell ill in the US, where they were doing promotion work for their fly-on-the-wall TV show. He flew home and took to his bed. On Saturday he collapsed and Jo
The March 2007 issue of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery published a Danish study of 663,963 children over a nine year period. The gist of study’s widely reported abstract is the claim that children born with severe hearing loss are five times (and possibly up to 12 times) more likely to develop meningitis. The main conclusion in the abstract is that parents and health care providers of children with hearing loss should be more alert for possible signs and symptoms of meningitis, and vaccination should be considered.
It is disturbing that the abstract makes no mention of the actual evidence upon which the researchers based their conclusions nor does it include complete information on the 39 children in the study identified with both hearing loss and meningitis. Did any of these particular children have a predisposition toward meningitis? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) website states that “some people with hearing loss were made deaf b
PHYSICAL SIGNS: MENINGITIS / MENINGISM
Following Physical Sign's are elicited to support a diagnosis of Meningitis:
1. Neck Stiffness / Rigidity
2. Kernig's Sign
3. Brudzinki's sign
Before we proceed, let's understand that the central idea of these maneuvers is to stretch the meninges, which in turn should pain if they are inflamed.
Neck Rigidity:
Kernig's Sign:
1. Have the Patient
NEW YORK, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire/-- The Meningitis Foundation of America (MFA)
and National Football League star Deion Branch are asking for your help
in raising awareness about the importance of meningitis vaccinations,
by launching a series of Public Service Announcements. Meningitis
is a serious, sometimes fatal infection causing inflammation of the
membranes that protect the brain and spinal cord. It is contagious, as
the bacteria and viruses that cause meningitis are spread by methods
such as coughing, sneezing and kissing. Young children are more
susceptible to bacterial meningitis than others, but vaccinations can
help prevent children from getting some forms of meningitis.
However, not all children are getting vaccinated. Only 60 percent of
African American children under two years of age are being immunized
(compared with 84.8 percent of white children). Pneumococcal disease,
which includes meningitis, is more common among children of certain
racial or ethnic gro
