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Bacterial Meningitis

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Symptoms<br />

• Abnormal skin color<br />

• Reddish or brownish skin rash or purple spots that do not turn<br />

white when u press on them are a sign of sepsis. These may develop<br />

because of inflammation and bleeding in small blood vessels<br />

throughout the body, including those under the skin.<br />

• Ice-cold hands and feet<br />

• Numbness and tingling: Sepsis (also called blood poisoning) can<br />

reduce the amount of blood that gets to the persons hand and feet,<br />

causing coldness and numbness.<br />

• Seizures: Swelling of brain tissue, increases pressure inside the skull,<br />

and hampers blood flow, causing stroke symptoms, paralysis and<br />

seizures.

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