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Cardinal Signs Of Meningitis. The cardinal signs and symptoms of meningitis are those of infection including fever chills and malaise and those of increased intracranial pressure icp including headache vomiting and rarely papilledema. At least one of the cardinal features of fever neck stiffness and altered mental status is present in 99 to 100 percent of patients with meningi tis. In fact meningitis may come on the heels of a flu like illness or infection. Neck stiffness is one of the cardinal signs that often differentiates meningitis from a general flu like illness.
Therefore a lumbar puncture with cerebro spinal fluid analysis. When headache is included two of the four. Meningism or meningismus is a morbid state characterized by a meningitic syndrome a triad of headache photophobia and nuchal rigidity without intracranial inflammation. Neck stiffness is one of the cardinal signs that often differentiates meningitis from a general flu like illness. The first sign of meningitis can be any of the general signs of the disorder depending on different factors like age immunity and cause of the disease. In adults viral meningitis may cause.
Flu like symptoms that seem more severe than normal.
When headache is included two of the four. Viral meningitis in infants may include. Flu like symptoms that seem more severe than normal. General signs and symptoms of meningitis. That s why it s important to stay alert. In fact meningitis may come on the heels of a flu like illness or infection.