{"id":692,"date":"2020-03-17T02:08:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T01:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asso-audrey.org\/?page_id=692"},"modified":"2020-03-17T02:10:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T01:10:49","slug":"the-different-types-of-meningitis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.asso-audrey.org\/?page_id=692&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The different types of meningitis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The different types of meningitis <\/h2>\n\n\n\n


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Viral meningitis:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n

This is the\u00a0most frequent<\/b>\u00a0and normally the\u00a0least serious<\/b>\u00a0type of meningitis. It is provoked by numerous common virus (mumps, chickenpox, measles,\u00a0 – ).\u00a0 Most of the time, it is spontaneously cured within three up to eight days and does not involve any particular treatment.

Nowadays vaccinations which are systematically made on children prevent a certain number of virus which may cause meningitis to appear.<\/p>\n

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Bacterial meningitis:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n

This type of meningitis is\u00a0less frequent<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0more serious<\/b>\u00a0than the former one. Bacterial meningitis may generate\u00a0serious aftermaths<\/b>\u00a0(deafness, blindness, paralysis, coma), and\u00a0potentially death<\/b>.

About\u00a070%<\/b>\u00a0of cases happen before five.

These bacteria are very often located\u00a0in the nose and in the pharynx<\/b>. They are transmitted through contaminated secretions coming from both – nose and pharynx \u2013 that is to say through sputters or sneeze.

They become really dangerous when they penetrate the circulating blood (blood poisoning or septicemia) and reach meninges.

The main bacteria at the origin of meningitis are today in France\u00a0pneumococcus<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0meningococcus<\/b>.
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* Pneumococcus\u00a0meningitis<\/i><\/i>\u00a0:

In France, among all the bacterial infections, those which are generated by pneumococcus are the first cause of death for children who are less than two. Pneumococcus is a very common germ among children. In most of the cases it is harmless but sometimes it may generate an\u00a0ear<\/b>infection<\/b>, a\u00a0pneumonia<\/b>\u00a0or even\u00a0meningitis<\/b>.
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Pneumococcus<\/b>\u00a0presents itself under\u00a0different forms called serotypes<\/b>. A vaccine against the seven most frequent serotypes of \u00a0pneumococcus is available and\u00a0recommended as soon as the child is two months old<\/b>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

*\u00a0meningococcus\u00a0meningitis\u00a0:

<\/i>Numerous types of meningococcus<\/b>\u00a0exist (serogroups). In France, serogroups B, C and W 135 are the most frequently detected in case of meningitis.<\/p>\n\n

\"\"30%<\/b>\u00a0of the cases of invasive infections generated by meningococcus\u00a0lead\u00a0 to a\u00a0dreadful infection<\/b>\u00a0guilty of an important mortality rate:\u00a0purpura fulminans<\/b>. The appearance of\u00a0red marks on the skin<\/b>\u00a0is the corresponding symptom and a sign of extreme seriousness and must consequently be interpreted as the signal of a necessary immediate hospitalization.

Vaccines against meningococcus A, C, Y and W 135 are available.\u00a0Vaccination is recommended for persons who have been in contact with an affected person<\/b>\u00a0or in certain\u00a0countries where the infection is frequent<\/b>.

There is no similar vaccine against meningococcus belonging to serogroup B ; a few countries have developed specific vaccines of certain clones use to cure a local infection.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The different types of meningitis Viral meningitis: This is the\u00a0most frequent\u00a0and normally the\u00a0least serious\u00a0type of meningitis. It is provoked by numerous common virus (mumps, chickenpox, measles,\u00a0 – ).\u00a0 Most of the time, it is spontaneously cured within three up to eight days and does not involve any particular treatment. Nowadays vaccinations which are systematically made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":634,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-692","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asso-audrey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asso-audrey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asso-audrey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asso-audrey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asso-audrey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.asso-audrey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/www.asso-audrey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692\/revisions\/699"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asso-audrey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asso-audrey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asso-audrey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ffolder&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}