Meningitis

external

• Effects

  • Meningism
  • Raised intracranial pressure
  • Inappropriate ADH secretion
  • Sensorineural deafness
  • Delirium
  • Childhood seizure
  • Childhood deafness

• Parents

  • Central nervous system pathology
  • Inflammatory disease
  • Notifiable disease
  • Contagious disease

• Children

  • Bacterial meningitis
  • Aseptic meningitis

• Treatments

  • Prophylactic immunisation