In this article I will discuss the importance of taking a meningitis vaccine or routine immunization which can prevent meningitis. Meningitis vaccine During childhood, young children are vaccinated against bacteria and viruses and microorganisms like pneumococcus, meningococcus, polio, mumps, measles, HIB etc which will serve to protect the individual against meningitis, the risk factor of which is one of these microorganisms.
There are various causes of meningitis. There are infectious causes and non infectious causes of this disease. Some of the non infectious causes or risk factors of meningitis are malignancies, certain kinds of medication, toxins, rheumatoid arthritis, polyarteritis nodosa, sarcoidosis and SLE and other such systemic diseases.
Bacterial meningitis is one of the two types of meningitis, the other being viral meningitis. Bacterial meningitis is the rarer of the two and accounts for only ten percent of the cases with 1 out of 7 cases turning really fatal and resulting in serious brain injury that can cause disability. If a patient contracts bacterial meningitis, he or she requires immediate medical intervention, for the disease is deadly.
Meninges refer to the thin lining that cover or envelop the central nervous system or CNS i.e. the brain and spinal cord. When an inflammation occurs in the meninges, it is referred to as meningitis. The leading causes that contribute to the formation of meningitis are bacteria and virus causing bacterial infection and viral infection respectively. Often other types of illnesses or diseases and specific kinds of medication lead to the outbreak of...
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