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What diseases are found in children with fever and headache?

While children with fever with headache is the most common diseases of central nervous system infections, such as meningitis, encephalitis, brain abscess, etc, can also be found in intracranial hemorrhage and brain tumor.


Meningitis is caused by a bacterial infection in children, such as and other epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis purulent meningitis. Clinically, mainly sudden high fever, body temperature often at around 39 ° c ~ 40 ° c, while fever with shivering. Headache was intense, often in children with head with your hands. In addition, generally have frequent vomiting in children with meningitis, vomiting is Jet-like, and visible signs, such as stiffness of the neck.


A high general fever of viral encephalitis in children, such as je, with fever as the initial manifestation, followed the intense headaches, vomiting, convulsions, coma. A longer duration of fever, severe cases can be up to 2-3 week. -Fever of viral encephalitis in varying degrees of sporadic, heavy headache.

Intracranial hemorrhage, and apart from headache symptoms in children with intracranial tumors are often fever, this is due to hemorrhage or tumor necrosis of tissue, shedding of tumor cells into the cerebrospinal fluid, and thermoregulation hub due to instability.

When heating and children accompanied by headache symptoms, parents should promptly to the hospital so as to facilitate early diagnosis, timely treatment. If the headache is due to General infection caused by factors, symptoms often can ease soon. If it is considered the central nervous system caused by infection, cerebrospinal fluid examination to further clarify diagnosis is required. If you suspect or intracranial hemorrhage of intracranial tumor, required with head CT and MRI examination confirmed. Early diagnosis and early treatment on the prognosis of these diseases is essential, parents must not ignore, so as to avoid delays in diagnosis and treatment.

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