Meningitis is differentiated as chronic or acute meningitis, depending on period of the symptoms and signs. If it is acute meningitis, the symptoms will develop in some hours or days. If it is chronic meningitis, the symptoms develop in weeks and months.

This disease can be infectious or non-infectious. For instance, the non infectious meningitis causes include non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs, antibiotics and carcinomatosis.

Meningitis is an infectious disease whose symptoms are severe headache, high fever and stiff neck. These symptoms can be seen in the children above 2 years. These symptoms progress in two hours and it takes 1 to 2 days more to show up.

Symptoms also include nausea, vomiting and inconvenience when looking at the bright lights. It can be misdiagnosed as common flu as the symptoms are very similar. Therefore, you should not neglect symptoms of common flu as it might be meningitis. You should immediately consult a doctor. There are also other symptoms and signs which warn you about meningitis, and they are as follows:

You will feel difficult when you want to concentrate on something, and you will be confused. And, if it is a young patient, he may not be able to make eye contact or even maintain it.

The person will find it difficult to wake up or he will be sleeping constantly. They experience loss of appetite, and they lose the interest in eating and drinking. Sometimes, the infected person will experience rashes, which are visible in cases who are affected with viral meningitis or meningococcal. They develop sensitivity towards light and also experience seizures.

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