Had cerebrospinal meningitis in children how to care

Previously, Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis (ECM) mortality rate is very high, just about 80 percent, even immortality, will leave sequels. With the emergence of sulfa drugs and antibiotics after meningitis has greatly reduced the mortality rate, according to statistics, the fatality rate has been greatly reduced now, the vast majority of children can be cured, and parents need not be too nervous, scared. However, ECM is acute infectious diseases, acute onset, fast progress, with the exception of early diagnosis and treatment, careful care is also essential.
ECM initial influenza-like symptoms, runny nose, nasopharynx dry, throat tightness, general discomfort, if not handled some people will suddenly high fever (40 ° C upper and lower), total skin (such as legs, buttocks, trunk) there bleeding points. When diagnosed with meningitis, in children with early isolation, conditional single room can minimize visit, care should bring masks, in order to maintain indoor air circulation, fresh, but also to maintain calm and avoid loud glare and stimulating.
The heavy ECM patients, care should first of all pay attention to looking and skin changes. If normal skin color and looking rosy, Tam show capillary systolic and diastolic normal. If a pale and cyanotic, by the warmth of dry skin into Humidicool suggested that the imminent shock if looking turn red, sweating stops and limbs warming, said that when conditions improved.
ECM in patients with septic shock-a large hemorrhage, nursing properly, can avoid secondary infection or sepsis and death from happening.
In hemorrhage, or not rupture before having treatment. But we need to protect the skin clean to prevent urine soaked, ground handling needs washing underwear.plaque rupture, have to use applied to keep the skin dry. Used diapers and underwear to soft clean, boil the best disinfectant. Children with each urine, the buttocks are required temperature water wash, reuse smear rupture Department. Good skin care also have to observe the condition of progress. The method is observed in the skin of a site within a certain range superscript good marks for the number of points a hemorrhage. If the rapid increase in short-term point of hemorrhage or large fusion, Tam show shock increase the contrary no significant changes or gradually dissipated, the condition began to stabilize or improve.