Diagnosis and treatment
Diagnosis usually requires samples from the blood and spinal cord. The doctors may also ask for the respiratory swab to exclude bacterial meningitis from the diagnosis.
According to the diagnosis, the treatment will be determined.
If you have bacterial meningitis, the doctor will order the appropriate antibiotics for your case and prophylactic antibiotics to all the people who have had contact with you. This is very important to prevent the spread of the meningitis bacteria and stop the epidemics before beginning.
If you have viral meningitis, you will usually require no treatment, and the doctors will ask you to rest for around a week until complete recovery. If the case is severe, the doctors may order antiviral therapy; to help your body fight the infection.
If you have fungal meningitis, doctors will immediately start you with a long antifungal treatment course by intravenous access. The duration of the treatment will depend mainly on your immune system status.
There is no specific treatment for parasitic meningitis; the doctors will order you symptomatic treatments for your system until your body recovers.
Amebic meningitis is fatal in almost all cases; the treatment present until today is not effective against the disease’s fatality. Among the 34 infected persons with the condition in the United States, only three survived.
The treatment of non-infectious meningitis mainly aims to treat the disease or improve the condition that leads to this inflammation.
