What are the long term effects of spinal menengitis?
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Depending on if it's viral or bacterial. Bacterial is much more dangerous, harder to treat, and important to treat immediately or death is immanent. For many survivors, the long-term effects can be debilitating, possibly including neurological devastation, multiple amputations, hearing loss, blindness, and kidney damage. Many (but not all, there are 3) forms of bacterial meningitis can be prevented by vaccination. Viral meningitis has similar symptoms to bacterial meningitis, but is neither as deadly nor as debilitating for the most part.
Death is one of the effects.
Not being able to walk then death
Death is pretty long term.
An increased intracranial pressure is a known and a potentially fatal complication of bacterial meningitis. The main sign of an increased ICP is an altered states of consciousness, which may vary from lethargy to confusion to coma. More than 90% of cases will present with CSF opening pressure > 180 mmHg and some with > 400 mmHg. Other signs of increased ICP in addition to headache and vomiting include papilledema, sixth cranial nerve palsies, decerebrate posturing, and Cushing's reflex (bradycardia, hypotension, and Cheyne-Stokes respiration). The most fatal complication of ICP is brain herniation, which may present in 1 to 8% of cases.
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