Sunday, March 9, 2008

Pediatric headache with neck stiffness may be illness?

Its characteristics : continuity in acute headache, accompanied by the neck hard tonic. Under such symptoms in children, is considered to be of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, Japanese encephalitis and brain abscess, septic meningitis, tuberculous meningitis, viral meningitis, and acute toxic encephalopathy intracranial infectious diseases. There are children with fever, severe and persistent headache deep, projectile vomiting, irritability, neck fat hard, even twitch, opisthotonus. Infants are the anterior fontanelle uplift. Under such symptoms for pediatric emergency signal, the parents of children should immediately be taken to hospital. Through a comprehensive and detailed investigation body, with fundus, cerebrospinal fluid and other tests can be diagnosed. If timely anti-infective, Zhijing, reducing intracranial pressure, nutrition and other brain cells effective treatment, most patients resume a healthy child, Children have a few mental retardation, repeated convulsive seizures, hearing impairment, movement disorders and other problems. About 15% of deaths in children.

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