Is encephalitis or meningitis contagious, is meningitis contagious?

Yes. Some bacterial meningitis is contagious. The bacteria are often spread through respiratory and nasopharyngeal secretions (e.g., through coughing, kissing, etc.).

Fortunately, no bacterial meningitis is as contagious as the flu or SARS, and it is not contagious through general contact or merely inhalation of air breathed by a person with meningitis. However, this should not be taken lightly, as bacteria can sometimes be transmitted through close or prolonged contact with a person with meningitis. Encephalitis is an infectious disease mainly transmitted by airborne droplets through the respiratory tract, and because of its weak viability in vitro, there is very little chance of indirect contact through daily necessities.

Meningococcal bacteria usually live in the nasal and pharyngeal mucosa of sick or healthy carriers. When coughing, talking, sneezing, spraying a large number of infected droplets, polluting the air, once a healthy person inhales, in the case of decreased immunity and resistance, meningococcal bacteria will enter the bloodstream from the respiratory tract, and then reach the intracranium, causing inflammatory changes in meningitis and a series of clinical symptoms. People who work in the same room as a sick person, are in a nursery school, or have had direct contact with a sick person's oral secretions (such as kissing) are considered at high risk of infection.

Encephalitis is usually one of the bacteria that cause respiratory infections, but the ability of this type of bacteria to survive outside the body is very weak, so indirect contact with daily necessities or inhalation of air exhaled by patients generally does not cause disease transmission. Therefore, pediatric encephalitis is a very contagious disease, although the contagiousness of pediatric encephalitis is very weak, but it is not to be taken lightly, it is best not to have too long close contact with people with encephalitis, because of long-term close contact.

Flu is much less contagious than the flu.

Respiratory infectious diseases are contagious, but its viability in vitro is extremely weak, so there is very little chance of indirect contact through daily necessities, and bacteria are often transmitted through respiratory tract and nasopharyngeal secretions (such as coughing, kissing, etc.). However, encephalopathy is much less contagious than influenza or SARS, and it is not contagious through general contact or merely inhalation of air breathed by a person with meningitis. However, experts warn that the public should not take this lightly, and sometimes close or prolonged contact with a patient with meningitis can be infected with the bacteria.

In addition, you can get other children in your family vaccinated.

When it comes to meningitis, many people think of three words: infectious disease! A word that is intimidating and avoided.

In fact, meningitis is not all infectious diseases, it is just a general term, according to the different pathogenic bacteria are mainly divided into four types: epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis (flow of the brain), tuberculous meningitis (brain), purulent meningitis (encephalitis), viral meningitis (viral brain). Among them, the flow of the brain is strongly contagious, while the nodularity of the brain has a certain degree of infectivity, and the brain and the virus brain are generally not contagious.

Several types of meningitis are further explained below:

Encephalitis: an acute infectious disease caused by the bacterium meningococcal. The source of infection is sick children and carriers, and it is transmitted through airborne droplets, which is more common in winter and spring. Due to the cold weather, the living room is crowded with people, poor ventilation, and weak resistance, making it easy to spread epidemics.

Encephalopathy: The disease is mostly caused by miliary tuberculosis or tuberculosis of the primary lesion in the lungs through hematogenous transmission into the brain, and the onset is usually slow. The main clinical manifestations are changes in the child's temperament and temperament, such as changing from lively and happy in the past to being indifferent, crying, irritable, and unwilling to play.

In older children, they may complain of headache followed by vomiting.

Encephalogenesis: Caused by Escherichia coli and various pyogenic bacteria, such as influenza bacillus, staphylococcus, pneumococcus, etc., through the upper respiratory tract, umbilical cord and ** infection, through the blood and spread into the brain, or directly from adjacent tissue infection into the meninges, such as mastoiditis, otitis media and head trauma infection, generally not infectious.

Viral brain: caused by various viral infections, such as mumps virus, enterovirus, herpes simplex virus and adenovirus, etc., are generally not infectious.

As you can see, not all meningitis is contagious. Symptoms of meningitis vary depending on the pathogen. And children at different times have different manifestations of meningitis.

Meningitis in infancy and early childhood has a different onset of symptoms, ranging from slow to acute. When the infant's brain is edema due to inflammation, if the anterior fontanelle has not been closed and the bone suture is separated, it can be relieved by the fontanelle and bone suture, and there is no obvious headache and vomiting, and the second is screaming and head banging. Nuchal rigidity is also not obvious due to the weak and imperfect neck muscles of infants and young children.

Some children are clinically manifested as a daze in both eyes and a binocular gaze. Bregma fullness is a typical sign of meningitis.