Bacterial meningitis symptoms
Most of those bacteria reach the meninges through your blood. The infection usually starts in a place away from your brain, most likely your sinuses or throat. This is why bacterial meningitis can start with symptoms that resemble those you get with any sore throat or cold. But this is just the beginning, and the successive symptoms indicating that bacterial has already reached your meninges are high fever, headache and stiff neck.
Projectile vomiting is a characteristic sign of this infection in your meninges. You can also start feeling blurring in your eyes, and maybe you will feel confused as well. Once you feel or see those symptoms appear on an individual around you, seek medical care immediately. Noticing the disease is much more difficult in babies and young children because they can’t express that much. However, you can feel worried when you notice these symptoms in your baby: being slow or inactive unlike his usual self, being irritable unlike usual, vomit or feed poorly unlike usual.
Notice that having one or many of these symptoms doesn’t mean your baby have bacterial meningitis, but they may alert you along with others that something is wrong and it is advisable to seek medical help to feel assured. Symptoms of bacterial meningitis can appear very rapid as short as hours, but typically it can take around 3 days to notice the full array of symptoms.
The most serious symptoms of bacterial meningitis are seizures and coma. At the clinic or hospital, doctors will hurry to take a blood and cerebrospinal fluid samples if they suspect bacterial meningitis to test for having a bacteria that cause bacterial meningitis. Knowing the type of infection that causes meningitis is crucial, because it determines the treatment you need to get better.
