What are the symptoms of bacterial meningitis?

What are the symptoms of bacterial meningitis?

You want to watch for high fever, headaches, and an inability to lower your chin to your chest due to stiffness in the neck.

In older children and adults, you may see confusion, irritability, increasing drowsiness. Seizures and stroke may occur.

In young children, the fever may cause vomiting and they may refuse to eat. Young children may become very irritable and cry. There may be seizures. Also, because the fluid around the skull may become blocked their heads may swell.

The onset of symptoms is fast, within 24 hours. If allowed to progress, you can die from bacterial meningitis.