Pediatric Meningococcal Meningitis

Research Methodology Bacterial Meningitis 1. Introduction Bacterial meningitis is the most common form of meningitis. Approximately 80% of all meningitis associated cases are bacterial, the disease is the critical reason for increasing morbidity rates in young children under the age group of one year. In the last 20 years (1991–2010) close to one million suspected meningitis cases were reported in the UK and in the US. [8] [5] The ‘meninges’ is the name for the three membranes that envelope the

your child for the following reasons: Meningitis is a serious infection of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. It is caused by meningococcal disease, which is contracted by 1,000 to 2,600 people yearly in the United States. Meningococcal disease is also serious, with one in ten cases leading to

There are over 4000 people affected by bacterial meningitis and around 500 deaths from this in the US every year ("Meningitis."). 6000 cases of pneumococcal meningitis are reported in the US each year and meningococcal meningitis infects close to 2600 people in the US each year ("Meningitis."). 10-15% of these meningococcal cases are fatal, while an additional 10-15% lives with permanent

1. The pathophysiology of bacterial meningitis is an infection of the bloodstream from an infected area or by commonly acquired through the respiratory system. Next, the bacteria gains access to the subarachnoid space. The body next responds with increased neutrophils to the subarachnoid space. Furthermore, “the release of cytotoxic inflammatory agents and bacterial toxins alter the blood-brain barrier and damage brain tissue (Huether & McCance, 2012)”. As a result, the meningeal vessels become engorged

Pediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. The age limit usually ranges from birth up to 18 years of age and until the age of age 21 in the United States or after college. A medical practitioner who specializes in pediatrics is known as a pediatrician. Pediatricians work in hospitals, particularly those working in specialized areas and as primary care physicians who specialize in children. In addition to general pediatrics, pediatricians

vaccine is tetanus, which can cause stiffness in neck and abdominal muscles, difficulty swallowing and muscle spasms. Complications could be broken bones and death (CDC). The Hib vaccine protects against haemophilus influenza type b, which can cause meningitis, intellectual disabilities, epiglottis and death (CDC). The PCV immunization helps prevent pneumococcal which causes pneumonia. Complications could result in

“Hug me. I feel very bad.” These were the last intelligible words of Sanjida Sahajahan in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She contracted pneumococcal meningitis when she was eleven because she did not receive the shot. This vaccination and more were too expensive for Bangladesh to afford for all of its citizens at the time of Sahajahan’s birth (Gorney 120, 121, 126, and 127). This heartbreak could become the result of many illness cases around the world if vaccines did not exist to prevent them. Children should

to breathing difficulties, paralysis, heart failure, and even death. The hemophilus influenza type B vaccine which prevents meningitis (an infection of the covering of the brain and spinal cord), pneumonia, and epiglottitis (a severe throat infection). Pneumococcal vaccine protects against streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria which can cause severe ear infections and meningitis. Most

from disease” (“Immunization”, 2017). Children begin the vaccination process at birth and continue to receive vaccines throughout he or she’s adolescent years. The vaccinations are peremptory in the protection from diseases, such as, Hepatitis A, Meningitis, and Influenza. Even though vaccines have been proven to increase protection from disease in children, parents have the option to opt out of the vaccine schedule. The percentage of people opting out of vaccinating is on the rise due to the

The word ‘colonization’ and ‘encroachment of lands’ reach a new level when we talk about the Occupied Palestinian territory. In 1948, with the establishment of the state of Israel more than three quarters of the Palestinian population were forcibly dispossessed and expelled to become refugees in neighboring Arab states to make way for the ‘newcomers’(Giacaman et al., 2009). Since then the lives of British Mandate Palestinians kept on becoming worse with ongoing conflicts and failed attempts of resolutions