Thursday, July 16, 2009

Baby infection in the spring should be alert to meningitis


Baby spring respiratory infections very easily, February to April each year is the peak incidence, meningitis bacteria through the air, droplets of invasive nasopharyngeal baby breeding, and a large amount of endotoxin, the weak immune system baby This bacteria and endotoxin in blood and blood-brain barrier into the body and brain, causing septicemia and purulent meningitis. Incidence of infants and young children are particularly vulnerable.
Sick child has these symptoms
★ acute onset, early disease rhinitis, pharyngitis or tonsillitis and other upper respiratory symptoms, often clinically easy to be ignored. Then fever, high fever, chills, fatigue, crying disturbed, the child has a headache, vomiting and so on, who faces re-dull, ugly face.
★ because of bacterial septicemia caused by blood, bacteria plug the small blood vessels, so when the skin in the baby can see the bleeding point size, referred to as "deposition point", or even point to expand into silt deposition spot, when the disease progress faster plaque deposition would be increased, the central chunk of skin necrosis appears purple.
★ When the bacteria and their toxins into the brain, the vomiting baby frequently, before the full fontanelle, headache aggravated convulsions occur, dim consciousness, coma and even hard-line head and neck. Sometimes your baby will be pale, cold and purple four muscles, blood pressure measurement down to see, such as toxic shock, respiratory failure, such as central performance, medicine known as "the outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis" can be life-threatening. Even if the rescue came, and some babies can also be caused by a variety of complications and sequelae.
Mom should be noted: if the above symptoms your baby should be on the hospital in time, do not delay. Must be done with the baby doctor for lumbar puncture (lumbar puncture) and blood tests and so on, so that timely treatment to prevent the disease re-turn.
Many parents are concerned that lumbar puncture in children with brain damage and doctors refused. This worry is unnecessary. Lumbar puncture will not harm the brain. If refused lumbar puncture and aggravate the patient's condition is not treated in time, will be adverse to the baby.
How to prevent meningitis
1. Against meningitis vaccine. Children in the meningitis epidemic meningitis season should be carried out before the group A vaccine against multiple enzyme precursors. 0.5 mg subcutaneous injection of vaccine, one month after vaccination, the children have antibody protection in vivo rate of about 76% ~ 94%, antibodies can be maintained for about three years. Children will have the following response after inoculation: a slight fever, local swelling and pain, decreased appetite and so on. After inoculation to the attention of children to rest, drink plenty of water, not bathing, doing strenuous exercise.
2. Preschools or at home, in close contact should be the prevention of oral medication. Domestic still compound Sulfamethoxazole (SMZco), baby every day 25-50 mg / kg body weight.
3. In the epidemic period, the baby with as little as possible to the densely populated places.
4. Home or childcare institutions should regularly ventilation windows. When the weather is good exposure in the sun like clothes and blankets.
5. Parents should be alert if your baby appears suspicious symptoms should seek medical treatment immediately to reduce the spread, so early diagnosis, early isolation and early treatment.

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