Patient's question:
Fever. After treatment, the fever subsided, but the fever-reducing medicine had no effect.Doctor's answer:
There are many causes of intracranial infection. Given your child's age and the current season, the possibility of a viral infection is high, but a lumbar puncture is needed to confirm. Regardless of the type of infection causing encephalitis or meningitis, it can affect brain function, though the extent varies from person to person. Fever is also a symptom of infectious diseases, and different pathogens may infect and cause illness in sequence. Generally, the same pathogen will not cause reinfection.