Vanhu vari panjodzi

Unogona kubata meningitis pazera ripi zvaro. Nekudaro, njodzi iri pamusoro muhuwandu hunotevera:

• Vana vari pasi pemakore maviri;
• Vechidiki uye vechidiki vechidiki vane makore 18 kusvika ku24;
• Vakuru ;
• Vadzidzi vekukoreji vanogara mudzimba dzekurara (boarding school);
• Vashandi vanobva kuzvigaro zvemauto;
• Vana vanopinda mukireshi (kireshi) nguva yakazara;
• Vanhu vane immune system yakaneta. Izvi zvinosanganisira vanhu vakwegura vane matambudziko ehutano asingagumi (chirwere cheshuga, HIV-AIDS, chidhakwa, kenza), vanhu vane kuregererwa kubva kuchirwere, avo vanotora zvinodhaka zvinoderedza simba rekudzivirira zvirwere.

Zvikonzero zveMeningitis

• Bata pedyo nemunhu ane utachiona.

Utachiona hunoparadzirwa nezvikamu zvemate zviripo mumhepo kana nekubatana zvakananga nekuchinjana kwemate kuburikidza nekutsvoda, kuchinjana kwemidziyo, girazi, zvokudya, fodya, lipstick, nezvimwewo.

• Gara munyika umo hosha yacho yakapararira.

Meningitis inowanikwa munyika dzakawanda asi denda rakanyanya kupararira uye rinogara richiitika munzvimbo dzerenje.Sub-Saharan Africa, iyo inonzi "African meningitis belt". Munguva yedenda, chiitiko chinosvika 1 nyaya dzemeningitis pavagari ve000. Pakazere, Health Canada inoona njodzi yekubatira meningitis kuve yakaderera kune vazhinji vanofamba. Zviripachena, njodzi dzakakwirira pakati pevafambi vanoita nguva yakareba yekugara kana pakati peavo vane hukama hwepedyo nevagari vemo munzvimbo yavo yekugara, zvifambiso zvevoruzhinji kana kubasa kwavo;

• Kusvuta kana kusvuta fodya.

Kusvuta kunofungidzirwa kuti kunowedzera njodzi yemeningococcal meningitis1. Uyezve, maererano nezvimwe zvidzidzo, vana uye kubatwa nehutsi hwefodya kungava panjodzi huru yemeningitis2,8. Vatsvakurudzi vepaYunivhesiti yeEdinburgh vakaona kuti utsi hwefodya hunoita kuti hutachiona hwemeningitis hunamire kumadziro ehuro8;

• Kazhinji kuneta kana kushushikana.

Izvi zvinhu zvinonetesa immune system, sezvinoita zvirwere zvinokonzera immune fragility (chirwere cheshuga, HIV-AIDS, kudhakwa, gomarara, kuisirwa nhengo, nhumbu, kurapwa kwecorticosteroid, nezvimwewo)

• Akaita splenectomy (kubviswa kwespleen) yemeningococcal meningitis
• Iva necochlear implant
• Iva nehutachiona hweENT (otitis, sinusitis);