Before admission, the patient showed fever and headache. After that, the roommate discovered that D drowsy and asked without answering, so he quickly took him to the hospital to check. At the provincial hospital, the doctor visited the patient with suspicious signs of meningitis should be transferred to the National Tropical Hospital.
According to Dr. Dong Phu Khiem - Deputy Director of the Center for Positive Resuscitation, when receiving, the patient shows signs of meningitis clearly, deep coma, stagnation and respiratory failure, which needs to be assisted in mechanical breathing. The patient appears scattered on the skin, suggesting the possibility of the cause of the disease is meningococcal bacteria. The tests are indicated and quickly identified patients with meningococcal infections. Patients are separated and active. After 5 days of treatment, the disease improved markedly: the patient is regaining consciousness and is in the process of taking a breathing machine.
Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Kim Thu - Head of the Department of General Infections, emphasized: Sterocryptitis is a dangerous acute infectious disease caused by the bacteria Neisseria meningitidis. The disease is transmitted through the respiratory tract through direct contact or drop shots. If not treated promptly, the disease can cause meningitis, sepsis and many dangerous complications, even death".
Associate Professor Thu also added: symptoms often start suddenly such as fever, headache, sore throat, nausea, vomiting. The patient may also have star-cestered hemorrhage on the skin. If the condition progresses severely, the patient may fall into a coma, have seizures, lose consciousness, have sepsis and die quickly. The most susceptible subjects are children from 6 months to 3 years old, adolescents and people with weakened immune systems. The disease is easy to break out in collective environments such as schools, dormitories, labor houses, industrial parks. Research shows that up to 525% of healthy people carry this bacteria in their throat without symptoms.
To effectively prevent the disease, Dr. Nguyen Nguyen Huyen - Director of the Center for Disease Control - recommends: vaccination is the most proactive and effective disease prevention measure today. In addition, it is necessary to maintain personal hygiene habits, maintain a clean living environment, wear a mask when in close contact with sick people and use preventive medicine if there is a risk of exposure. Because the disease progresses very quickly, people need to go to a medical facility immediately when there are signs of doubt to be examined and treated promptly.
