Meningitis Research Paper

through the ear and sinus. The second is Neisseria meningitides; this bacteria form infects the throat and symptoms sometimes show no sickness at all. This leads to more of a spread of this disease who are able to get ill and infect others and so on. This shows that meningitis is also asymptomatic since this disease doesn’t always give symptoms and people can be carries for this disease.
There are other several of forms of strains that you can be infected by with meningitis. Pneumococci, staphylococci, and streptococci these all because meningitis and any other form other these bacteria’s can be carried through the meninges through the bloodstream; it can also infect organs like the ears or nasal sinuses. When in the meninges they are able …show more content…
The second stage the bacteria starts to invade the blood and this is where it enters the blood stream. The blood gets introduced to this bacteria and the toxins it begins; as the bacteria begins to circulate the blood and starts to cause a fever. Depending on the infections sometimes it cans also cause as type of rash. In the third stage the bacteria is in the meninges where it begins in multiply and starts to produce pus and as there is inflammation occurring in the …show more content…
Meningitis has a rapid onset of various symptoms some which can result in death. One of the first symptoms is vomiting, and when attacking the meninges than some painful severe headaches can occurs. Another symptom is stiffness in the neck and body muscle pains. The fluid than becomes very thick from the pus developed by the inflammation and that the spinal meninges become blocked. The fluid can cause coma and sometime even death if not treated. For bacterial meningitis some symptoms are nausea, vomiting, increased sensitivity, and confusion. Bacterial meningitis can appear within several days and sometimes it is developed within three days to a week. Meningitis can also have an onset of a fever and stiff neck in a person. Later symptoms of bacterial meningitis can be very serious causing seizures and coma. For viral meningitis there are various common symptoms, starting with infants the symptoms can be; fever, irritability, poor eating, sleepiness, troubles waking up, and lack of energy. Those are just some common symptoms that infant can experience with viral meningitis. Now here are some common symptoms for adults, symptoms can be fever, headache, and stiff neck, sensitivity to light, sleepiness, and troubles waking up, nausea, vomiting, lack of appetite, and lack of energy. Some of these symptoms are common in infants and adults, but the adults are the ones that receive

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