What are the characteristics of cerebrospinal fluid in viral encephalitis?

The characteristics of cerebrospinal fluid of viral encephalitis are actually some symptoms. Some patients will show symptoms such as fever, headache and sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, and mental disorders, or are often accompanied by convulsions, memory loss and other problems.

1. What are the prodromal symptoms?

It manifests as symptoms of the upper respiratory tract or digestive tract, such as fever, headache, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite, etc. ?

2. Neuropsychiatric symptoms?

1. Patients with mild disturbance of consciousness may be indifferent, slow, irritable, or drowsy to the outside world; patients with severe disturbance of consciousness may experience delirium or coma. ?

2. Increased intracranial pressure causes headaches, vomiting, dizziness, and even brain herniation. The baby's anterior fontanelle is full. ?

3. Convulsions can be localized, systemic, or persistent. ?

4. Movement dysfunction

Depending on the damaged part, it can manifest as central or peripheral paralysis of one side or one limb; it can also manifest as extrapyramidal movement disorders such as choreiform movements and muscle rigidity; it can also manifest as strabismus, facial paralysis or swallowing disorders due to cranial nerve paralysis. ?

5. Mental disorders such as memory loss, disorientation, auditory and visual hallucinations; mood changes, irritability, and sometimes suspicion, which are often mistaken for mental illness or frontal lobe tumors. ?

3. Associated symptoms

Viral infections are systemic diseases, but each virus has its own unique clinical manifestations. For example, in cases of Echo and Coxsackie virus infection, a small measles-like rash or simultaneous myocarditis and pericarditis often occurs. The parotid glands swell during mumps (encephalitis may also occur before the parotid glands swell). Herpes simplex virus infection causes blisters around the lips. The course of the disease is generally about 2 weeks. Most cases can recover completely, with only a few left with sequelae of epilepsy, vision, hearing impairment, limb paralysis and varying degrees of mental retardation.