Meningitis
Symptoms
Meningitis – inflammation of the meninges covering the brain and spinal cord. It is characterized by severe headache, fever, vomiting, altered consciousness, and the onset of meningeal symptoms: neck muscles stiffen, causing the patient’s head to bend forward, the chin cannot reach the chest; when lifting one leg while lying down, it cannot be straightened at the knee; lifting one leg, the other involuntarily bends at the knee. These symptoms do not occur in infants. Their fontanelle becomes tense and does not pulse.
Source | Author Doctor Nikas Samuolis, reviewed by Prof. Virginijus Šapoka | Vilnius University | Faculty of Medicine | Head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Oncology