What typical symptom does intracranial infection have?

Intracranial infection is an acute or chronic inflammatory or non-inflammatory disease caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites invading the central nervous system parenchyma, meninges and blood vessels, etc.

Common intracranial infectious diseases include viral encephalitis, suppurative meningitis, brain abscess, tuberculous meningitis, cysticercosis, etc. Antibiotics and surgical treatment are the main treatment, if not timely treatment, It can be life-threatening.

There are many causes of intracranial infection, open brain trauma, due to external causes of the brain directly open, communicated with the outside world, bacteria into the brain, resulting in intracranial infection; Iatrogenic infection is also common. When the patient's skull is opened during surgery, hospital disinfection is not strict, resulting in intracranial infection. In addition, when patients suffer from basic diseases, such as sinusitis, otitis media, pneumonia, etc., their own poor resistance coupled with no timely treatment will lead to intracranial infection.

Intracranial infection is very harmful, if you can understand its symptoms early, timely discovery and timely treatment is very beneficial. The most typical symptoms of intracranial infection mainly include the following aspects:

1. Systemic fever: intracranial infection is a more obvious symptom is that patients will appear systemic fever, body temperature even up to 40 degrees, this is mainly because the virus into the brain after stimulating the brain tissue, resulting in rising body temperature. Along with the fever, the patient will experience chills and respiratory symptoms such as shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.

2. Headache and dizziness: after intracranial infection occurs, patients will have obvious headache and dizziness symptoms, because intracranial infection leads to increased intracranial pressure, which will stimulate the brain, resulting in serious headache symptoms, some patients also accompanied by nausea and vomiting.

3. Disorders of consciousness and seizures: serious intracranial infection can cause brain tissue damage or edema, the patient's consciousness will become blurred, or even cause coma. In addition, if the intracranial infection is not treated in time, the patient's brain function is damaged, it will also cause seizures.

In a word, the impact of intracranial infection on human health is extremely large, once found similar symptoms should be actively treated.