Meningitis - how can you get infected?

Meningitis, regardless of its type and form, is a very unpleasant disease, as a result of which the patient suffers damage to hard or soft shells of the brain. Therefore, the benefit is that it is rare. However, cases of outbreaks in one or another region of the country have recently become more frequent, and therefore the likelihood of getting sick with it grows higher over time. To avoid this, you need to know where and how you can get infected with viral or other meningitis.

Insidiousness of disease

Serous meningitis can be infected in principle anywhere. Many people confuse this disease with a common cold. But it is necessary to clearly know its symptoms and in time to seek help:

• heat;
• severe headache ;
• drowsiness and fatigue;
• convulsions;
• pain in the joints;
• intolerance to bright light (due to severe irritation);
• stiff neck;
• skin rashes.

Forms and types of meningitis

Answering a question, whether it is possible to catch a meningitis, it is necessary to tell or say, that it is possible and, and methods for this purpose exist not a little. Types of meningitis, if you pay attention to their name, make it clear what exactly causes and contributes to the development of the disease:

• fungal;
• virus;
• bacterial.

Meningitis in form can be:

1. Primary - when the disease occurs due to infection with infection from the outside.
2. Secondary - when the disease is a complication after another transferred infectious disease, such as measles or poliomyelitis.

In the second case, it is clear that any infectious disease, even if proceeding in a mild form, must be completely cured and then carefully cared for and rechecked for relapse. However, considering the case of the primary form of the disease, you should know how you can get serous meningitis from the outside. The source of infection may be a fungus, caught up due to being in poor sanitary conditions or contamination from a human carrier of the virus.

A person who does not know where to get meningitis, is constantly at risk. The most risky areas include schools and kindergartens, because children from 3 to 6 years old are most likely to experience meningitis . They can also be carriers of the disease. However, despite the fact that adults are extremely rare meningitis, they also need to monitor who they contact and be vigilant in relation to their health.