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    Viral meningoencephalitis is an acute inflammatory process involving the meninges and brain tissue that causes non-productive cough, loss of appetite, fever, and generalized weakness. Symptoms can include headache, nausea, vomiting, photophobia, neck and back pain, mental dullness progressing to stupor with bizarre movements or convulsions, and focal neurological signs that may be stationary, progressive, or fluctuating, with nuchal rigidity. Brain abscesses are more common in children aged 4-8 years and neonates, causing low-grade fever, lethargy, severe headache, seizures, papilledema, focal neurological signs, coma, nystagmus, ipsilateral at

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    Viral meningoencephalitis is an acute inflammatory process involving the meninges and brain tissue that causes non-productive cough, loss of appetite, fever, and generalized weakness. Symptoms can include headache, nausea, vomiting, photophobia, neck and back pain, mental dullness progressing to stupor with bizarre movements or convulsions, and focal neurological signs that may be stationary, progressive, or fluctuating, with nuchal rigidity. Brain abscesses are more common in children aged 4-8 years and neonates, causing low-grade fever, lethargy, severe headache, seizures, papilledema, focal neurological signs, coma, nystagmus, ipsilateral at

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    Differentials Meningitis

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    Viral meningoencephalitis is an acute inflammatory process involving the meninges and brain tissue that causes non-productive cough, loss of appetite, fever, and generalized weakness. Symptoms can include headache, nausea, vomiting, photophobia, neck and back pain, mental dullness progressing to stupor with bizarre movements or convulsions, and focal neurological signs that may be stationary, progressive, or fluctuating, with nuchal rigidity. Brain abscesses are more common in children aged 4-8 years and neonates, causing low-grade fever, lethargy, severe headache, seizures, papilledema, focal neurological signs, coma, nystagmus, ipsilateral at

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    DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS

    Viral Meningoencephalitis- is an acute inflammatory process involving the


    meninges and, to a variable degree, brain tissue.
    RULE IN RULE OUT
    Non productive cough temperate climates occur in the summer and
    Loss of appetite fall.
    Fever
    Generealized weakness nonspecific febrile illness of a few days’
    duration
    headache
    hyperesthesia
    Headache is most often frontal or
    generalized
    Fever
    nausea
    vomiting
    photophobia
    pain in the neck, back, and legs are
    common

    Mental dullness progressing to stupor in


    combination with bizarre movements
    convulsions

    Focal neurologic signs may be stationary,


    progressive, or fluctuating.

    nuchal rigidity

    Brain abscesses
    RULE IN RULE OUT
    Non productive cough common in children between 4 and 8 yr and
    Loss of appetite neonates
    Fever
    Generealized weakness
    low-grade fever
    headache
    lethargy
    vomiting
    severe headache
    seizures
    papilledema
    focal neurologic signs (hemiparesis)
    coma
    nystagmus
    ipsilateral ataxia
    dysmetria
    vomiting
    headache

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