Bacterial meningitis is inflammation of the membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord due to an infection. Symptoms can escalate quickly and include fever, headache, neck stiffness, nausea and vomiting, confusion, and sensitivity to light and is considered a medical emergency.

Bacterial Meningitis: The Importance of Early Diagnosis and Treatment

Aseptic meningitis is a specific type of meningitis that refers to inflammation of the brain and spinal cord caused by something other than a bacterial infection, most commonly, a viral infection. 

Aseptic Meningitis: How to Detect Symptoms & Emergency Treatment

This article will review the symptoms, causes, and management of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. Symptoms of the preceding illness include headache, fever, nausea, vomiting, or altered mental status, followed by the condition-specific symptoms of difficulty controlling limbs or eyes, trouble swallowing, speaking, or urinating, vision loss, spastic movements of the limbs, seizures, bleeding in the brain, as well as possible depression and psychosis.

Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis

Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis: Symptoms, Treatment Options, & Prognosis by Age

Find out how to treat bacterial conjunctivitis (pink eye)

Bacterial Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye)

A brain abscess is a serious infection that causes your brain to swell. It's caused by bacteria getting into your brain, usually from intravenous drug use, recent brain or heart surgery, or chronic sinus infections. A brain abscess can cause many different symptoms, including headaches, fever, speech problems, nausea and vomiting, and even seizures. If you don’t treat it early, it can also cause serious neurological damage.

Brain Abscess

Symptoms, risk factors, and diagnosis of this neurological disorder.

In asthma, the airways of your lungs overreact to various triggers, causing coughing, wheezing, and chest tightness. The flu can act as one of those triggers—and that can make your asthma symptoms worse. Learn how to treat them both.

Asthma and the Flu

How to get the right care when the flu makes asthma worse.

Asthma and the Flu: How to Avoid Attacks While Sick

An acute upper respiratory infection (URI) is any infection of the nose or throat, which are part of the body’s upper respiratory system. URIs cause the common cold and tend to be relatively mild infections.

Acute URI (Upper Respiratory Infection)

A common cold can knock you out. Learn how to get relief.

Acute Upper Respiratory Infection

When bacteria enters your body through a wound or during surgery, you may develop a bone infection. Certain conditions, such as diabetes, raise your risk of bone infections. Getting early treatment is crucial, since some bone infections can become life threatening.

Bone Infections

How to tell if bone pain and difficulty moving are caused by a bacterial infection.

A breast abscess is a collection of infected fluid, or pus, within the breast that is generally painful. Other symptoms of a breast abscess include fever, chills, fatigue, and body aches. Treatment for a breast abscess involves antibiotics or a procedure to drain the fluid.

Breast Abscess

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Infection & Disease

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