Meningitis
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Symptoms
Sudden high fever, severe headache, and neck stiffness are the hallmark symptoms of meningitis. Others symptoms include:
- Nausea and vomiting
- Confusion and disorientation
- Seizures
- Drowsiness or sluggishness
- Sensitivity to light
- Poor appetite
- More severe symptoms include seizure and coma.
Chronic meningitis
Chronic meningitis develops slowly, over weeks or longer, and may last for months to years. Rarely, chronic meningitis causes only mild symptoms and resolves on its own.
Headache, confusion, a stiff neck, and back pain are common. People may have difficulty walking. Weakness, pins-and-needles sensations, numbness, paralysis of the face, and double vision are also common. Paralysis of the face, double vision, and hearing loss develop when meningitis affects the cranial nerves (which go directly from the brain to various parts of the head, neck, and trunk).
