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What are the differences in symptoms of viral meningitis and bacterial meningitis?
There is really no difference between the symptoms of viral and bacterial meningitis. With both you will have fever, headache, stiff neck, vomiting, and sensitivity to light. However that being said bacterial comes on suddenly where viral can take a few days.
Is viral meningitis or enciphelitis contagious?
Meningitis (viral or bacterial) is infectious and can be highly contagious. Usually anyone in close contact with someone who gets bacterial meningitis will be given antibiotics as well.
What is a miningitis?
I think you mean meningitis. It means viral or bacterial infection of the brain
Is Meningitis fatal or nonfatal?
There are two kinds of meningitis, bacterial and viral. Both can be serious, though viral usually is milder. But if not treated properly, meningitis can indeed be fatal, due to its proximity to the brain and spinal cord.
What is the most common injury meningitis has done to a victim?
Viral infection is the most common cause of meningitis though it can also be caused by bacterial and fungal infection.
What does lactate mean in a cerebrospinal analysis?
The CSF lactate is used mainly to help differentiate bacterial and fungal meningitis, which cause increased lactate, from viral meningitis, which does not.
What are the different types of Meningitis?
* Viral Meningitis - the most common form of meningitis, caused by a viral infection. It occurs mostly in the summer.* Bacterial Meningitis - the less common form of the disease; always associated with serious and severe illness.
Which form of meningitis is the most dangerous?
Viral meningitis is the least severe type of meningitis, and patients usually recover with no long-term effects from the infection.
What shape is the meningitis bacterium?
Viral meningitis has no set shape. There are a variety of viruses that can cause viral meningitis, all a different shape.
Is Meningitis worse that MRSA?
Viral Meningitis isn't as severe as Bacterial meningitis. Bacterial meningitis left untreated can cause tissue damage on the brain, seizures, and death. MRSA is short for "methicillin resistant staph aeurous" or staph that is resistant to a strong antibiotic called methicillin. Once in your body MRSA will stay they, you can have outbreaks in the form of boils or it may lie dormant.
Can you get spinal meningitis from mold?
No. Molds are fungi. Viruses are not fungi. Fungi can get viruses, just like you or I, but there are no viruses that are fungi. There are no fungi that are viruses. This does not address whether you can get fungal meningitis from black mold, but you absolutely definitively cannot get viral meningitis from black mold. Additionally, having fungal meningitis might make you more or less susceptible to getting viral meningitis, but you probably won't be too concerned with viral meningitis if you're busy fighting fungal meningitis. You won't be concerned with much else at all.
Scientific name for viral meningitis?
Aseptic meningitis
