The classification of neuroinfections is due to their location.occurrence. There are encephalitis, myelitis, arachnoiditis, meningitis, and combined forms. Acute viral infections are called groups of acute viral diseases, the manifestation of which is similar to polio, but the virus of this disease has nothing to do with them. In acute viral infections, the gray matter of the spinal cord and brain, as well as large motor neurons, are damaged.
In most cases, registration of suchdiseases occur in the warm season. In this case, the most common neuroinfections in children. The source of infection is sick people or virus carriers. The main transmission route is airborne.
Most often, an infectious process that affects the nervous system is characterized by three clinical syndromes:
- Intoxication syndrome. There is general weakness, body temperature rises.
- Liquor syndrome. There is cell-protein dissociation, which is an increase in the number of cells and protein in the cerebrospinal fluid, but there are significantly more cells than protein.
- Liver hypertension syndrome. Increased headache in recumbentposition, manifested more in the morning. Fatigue, disorder of consciousness, as well as an increase in the frequency of breathing and heartbeat, occurring in the background of a decrease in systolic blood pressure, are noted.
Symptoms of neuroinfection
К симптомам данных нейроинфекций относят вялые paresis, which have the character of temporary immobilization. In this case, most often occurs the defeat of the legs, which leads to a change in the gait of the child. When pressing on the leg, there are painful sensations along the trunks of large nerves.
The disease is usually characterized by lung.over. However, in some cases it is complicated by the occurrence of paralysis. The causative agents of acute viral infections are mumps viruses, adenoviruses, enteroviruses and herpes simplex viruses.
Treatment of neuroinfections
Treatment of neuroinfection is carried out depending onpathogen. Therapy of microbial infections involves the use of antibiotics with a wide spectrum of action. Such treatment is carried out until the detection of the pathogen, after which the treatment of neuroinfection is carried out with specific antibiotics. Viral infections are treated with antiviral agents.
As pathogenetic and symptomatictherapies use infusion treatment of neuroinfections, as well as diuretics, neuroprotectors, vitamins and drugs that improve cerebral circulation. Patients with acute viral neuroinfection are prescribed rest and remedial gymnastics. Also, the treatment of neuroinfection involves taking medications that improve the general condition of the patient.
Consequences of neuroinfection
Rough structural brain damage observedin the prenatal period, these are the main consequences of neuroinfection. They are malformations. Retrospective diagnosis of the effects of the postnatal period is difficult.
About the relationship of developmental disorders with neuroinfection canstate only if there is anamnesis, confirming meningitis, encephalitis, etc. Do not forget that the neurological disorders that have arisen after a disease accompanied by fever do not in all cases speak of neuroinfection.
Retrospective identification of an illnesscan be carried out during serological studies. It is a detection of high titer specific antibodies in a child’s blood. The study is effective only in the case of a recent illness.
