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.