What is this early summer meningitis? (Frühsommer-meningoenzephalitis = FSME) is the almost similar as Lyme Diease.
Early summer meningitis (FSME) is an infection of the brain skin and (or) the brain.
It is caused by a virus, which will transfer mainly by ticks bites; in addition, after the benefit of not pasteurisierter milk, which came from infected cattle, sheep or goats, medical cases were proven.
In Central Europe & also oversea, there are some areas, which are strongly contaminated with infected ticks, in other areas does not occur the virus.
These humans immune could be remain long life by FSME illness.
Most frequently the age group of the 30 to 40 years old gets sick. The children, the illness runs usually rather harmlessly, with increasing age becomes the disease process ever more serious up to paralyses and mental disorders.
The wooden support (that´s name of kinds ticks) is the main carrier of the FSME virus.
Which the FSME has cause?
The virus mostly arrives by ticks bites into the body. The wooden support (Ixodes ricinus) is considered as a main carrier of the FSME virus.
The ticks lives at sunny forest and edges of way in the low bush.
The virus needs a high air & dampy and temperatures of at least 10 degrees for surviving plus on at least 150 days in the year. The ticks live in the virus winters. Preferential pass places with humans are the hairy scalp, the ears, hands and feet and the shoulder caves.
When you must go to the doctor?
When fiebrigen illnesses with nonspecific complaints such as head, pains of the joints, cold symptoms, neck stiffness and reducingness, then go to the doctor.
What will the doctor do?
After detailed questioning and investigation by the doctor. They will let different laboratory tests make, in order to prove the exciter or the anti-bodies.
Disease process
The FSME often runs in two phases. In the first phase it comes to increased temperature, tiredness, Katarrh, head, cross and pains of the joints and a general illness feeling.
With the last third it comes to a free and interval from 1 to 20 days to a second, more violent disease phase with high fever and very difference disease pictures such as pain, a trembling, paralyses, unconsciousness and mental disorders.
Symptoms
1. Phase
Fever
Tiredness
Pain in head, cross and member masses
Cold sign
Stomach and intestine complaints
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2. Phase
Fever
Neck stiffness
Nausea
Tremble
Mental disorders
Paralyses particularly in the shoulder belt.
Is the FSME dangerous?
The FMSE usually heals completely without complications.
It take you a very long time to to cure to be healthy again.
The paralyses regress gradually, headache remained very long time. In few cases the illness leads to death.
How can you aviod FSME?
Avoid the favourite places of the ticks in contaminated areas. Ticks at the body immediately remove. For particularly endangered persons, for example forest worker and hunter, the protective inoculation is advisable. FSME shot.
Important:
Ask before a vacation trip in your pharmacy whether there can be ticks, which are stricken by Meningitis Virus in your vacation area.
